Vocabulary Turning Points and AP USH

Vocabulary Turning Points and AP USH

Directions to Students: You must be able to identify, describe, and explain the significance of each of the following terms/people/events. This may be done by traditional vocabulary sections in your notebook, reading notes, within the work product you are creating, or you may propose your own way to master this content. Individual proposals must be mutually agreed upon by teacher and student, and grades must support the methods chosen.

Vocabulary for Colonization and Settlement:

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Middle Passage
Columbian Exchange
Age of Exploration
Puritans
William Bradford
John Winthrop
Pilgrims
Mayflower Compact
Anne Hutchinson
Roger Williams
John Smith
William Penn
Quakers
Lord Baltimore
Duke of York
New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies
Separation of church and state
House of Burgesses
The Enlightenment in America
Navigation Acts
First Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
Salem Witch Trials
French and Indian War, 1754-1763

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Vocabulary for Revolutionary Period:

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Albany Plan of Union
Bacon’s Rebellion
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Connecticut Plan/ Great Compromise
Declaratory Act
English Bill of Rights
French and Indian War
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
House of Burgesses
Indentured servants
Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts
John Locke
Jonathan Edwards
Joint-stock Companies
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Proclamation of 1763
Quartering Act
Social Contract theory
Sons of Liberty
Stamp Act
Stamp Act Congress
Sugar Act
Tea Act
Townshend Acts
Treaty of Paris, 1763 and Treaty of Paris, 1783
Whiskey Rebellion

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Vocabulary for Federal Era

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Articles of Confederation
Great Compromise
Representation
Bicameral
Cabinet
George Washington
John Adams
Judiciary Act of 1789
Bill of Rights
Alexander Hamilton
Whiskey Rebellion
Federalist Party
Democratic Republican Party
Federalism
checks and balances
federalism
checks and balances
loose interpretation of the Constitution
strict interpretation of the Constitution
Election of 1800

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Vocabulary for Expansion/Nationalism/Sectionalism

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Midnight Judges
XYZ Affair
Marbury vs. Madison
John Marshall (note major cases under his jurisdiction)
Thomas Jefferson
Lewis and Clark expedition
Louisiana Purchase
Alien and Sedition Acts
Virginia and Kentucky Resolves
Nullification
suffrage
Tecumseh
Cotton gin
Eli Whitney
John Jay
Jay's Treaty
Pinckney's Treaty
Abigail Adams
Emancipation
Impressment
Embargo Act of 1807
Neutrality
War Hawks
War of 1812
Battle of New Orleans
Treaty of Ghent
Adams-Onis Treaty

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Tariff of 1816
Capital
Nationalism
Henry Clay
American System
Marbury v. Madison
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
Fletcher v. Peck
McCulloch v. Maryland
Gibbons v. Ogden
Hudson River School of Painters
Andrew Jackson
Caucus
Martin Van Buren
Jacksonian Democracy
Spoils System
Indian Removal Act
Trail of Tears
Tariff of Abominations
John C. Calhoun
Nullification
Whig
Second Great Awakening
Charles Grandison Finney
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
Mormons
Utopia
Unitarians
Transcendentalists
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Horace Mann
Dorothea Dix
Temperance Movement
Nat Turner
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglas
Sojourner Truth
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Seneca Falls Convention

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Turnpike
National Road
Erie Canal
Industrial Revolution
Samuel Slater
Francis Cabot Lowell
Interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney
Samuel F. B. Morse
Labor union
Nativist
Cotton gin
John Quincy Adams

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Vocabulary for Early Technological Innovatins/Manifest Destiny/Sectionalism

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Expansionist
Manifest Destiny
John O’Sullivan
Santa Fe Trail
Mountain Men
Oregon Trail
Brigham Young
Mormon Trail
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Stephen Austin
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Lone Star Republic
Alamo
Sam Houston
James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
Winfield Scott
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Gadsen Purchase
Wilmot Proviso
California Gold Rush
Forty-niners
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850

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Vocabulary for Civil War and Reconstruction:

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Conscription
Enrollment Act
Bounties
Fort Sumter
Battle of Bull Run
Fort Pillow
Battle of Vicksburg
Antietam
Total war
Anaconda Plan
Andersonville
Dorothea Dix
Clara Barton
Medical technology during the Civil War
Sherman’s march to the sea
Abraham Lincoln
Anaconda Plan
King Cotton
Trent Affair
Battle of Vicksburg
Fort Sumter
Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Gettysburg
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Monitor
Merrimac
Hunley
Greenbacks
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
The Trent Affair
Cotton diplomacy
National Bank Act
Election of 1864
Northern industry
Plantation system in South
Northern factory workers
Southern plantation workers
Northern industrialists
Southern planters

Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Emancipation Proclamation
Wade-Davis Bill
Thaddeus Stevens
Andrew Johnson
Freedmen’s Bureau
Civil Rights Act
Black Codes
Jim Crow Laws
Radical Republicans
Civil War Amendments

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Vocabulary for Westward Expansion/Frontier/Rise of Populism

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Plains Indians
Gold Rush
Comstock Lode
Homestead Act
Morrill Land Grant Act
(1862)
Oklahoma Land Rush
Sod houses
Chinese & Irish immigrants
Mormons
Promontory Point, Utah
Transcontinental Railroad
Cattle drives
Dime Novels
Sand Creek Massacre
Battle of Little Big Horn
Sitting Bull
Dawes Severalty Act
Chief Joseph
Nez Percé
Helen Hunt Jackson’s A Century of Dishonor
Wounded Knee
Frederick Jackson Turner
The Grange
National Farmers’ Alliances
Southern Alliance
Gold standard
Bimetallism
Greenbacks
Munn v. Illinois (1877)
Wabash v. Illinois (1886)
Rebates
Interstate Commerce Act
Omaha Platform
Election of 1896
William Jennings Bryan
“Cross of Gold” Speech
Barbed wire

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Vocabulary for Industrialization:

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Thomas Edison
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Gospel of Wealth
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration
Robber Barons
Samuel Gompers
Haymarket Riot
Homestead Strike
Ellis Island
Angel Island
Americanization
“Melting Pot”
New Immigrant
Munn v. Illinois
Nativism
Chinese Exclusion Act
Interstate Commerce Act
Culture Shock
Social Darwinism

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Vocabulary for Progressivism

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Muckrakers
Ida Tarbell
Lincoln Steffens
Upton Sinclair
Theodore Roosevelt
Jacob Riis
tenements
Urban slums
Jane Addams
Hull House
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
Carrie Nation
Sherman Antitrust Act
Payne Aldrich Tariff 1909
Mann Elkins Act
Robert LaFollette
Election of 1912
Bull Moose Party
Federal Reserve Act
Clayton Antitrust Act
Referendum
secret ballot
Recall
Initiative
Plessy v. Ferguson
Booker T. Washington
WEB DuBois
Great Migration
NAACP
Jim Crow Laws
lynching
disenfranchisement
literacy tests
poll taxes
de jure segregation
de facto segregation
Marcus Garvey
Back to Africa Movement
Tuskegee Institute
Civil Rights
Ku Klux Klan
Wright Brothers
motion pictures
Henry Ford
assembly line
Model T
electricity
mail order catalogs
skyscrapers
mass culture

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Vocabulary for Imperialism:

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Alfred Thayer Mahan
Social Darwinism
Frederick Jackson Turner
The acquisition of Alaska
Matthew Perry
The acquisition of Hawaii
Queen Liliuokalani
Causes of the Spanish-American War
Jose Marti
William Randolph Hearst
Joseph Pulitzer
Yellow journalism
The explosion of the Maine
George Dewey
Emilio Aguinaldo
San Juan Hill
Treaty of Paris, 1898
William Jennings Bryan
Mark Twain
Anti-Imperialist League
William McKinley
Guerilla warfare
William Howard Taft
Dollar diplomacy
Spheres of influence
John Hay and the Open Door Policy
Boxer Rebellion
Treaty of Portsmouth
Gentleman’s Agreement
Great White Fleet
Foraker Act
Platt Amendment
Big Stick Diplomacy
Panama Canal (include the acquisition of Panama)
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Roosevelt Corollary
Moral diplomacy
Wilson’s actions in Latin America
Pancho Villa
Porfirio Diaz
Francisco Madero
Victoriano Huerta
Venustiano Carranza
John J. Pershing

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Vocabulary for World War I:

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Alsace-Lorraine
Militarism
Francis Ferdinand
Western Front
Contraband
U-boat
Lusitania
Zimmerman Note
Janet Rankin
Selective Service Act
Bernard Baruch
Committee on Public Information
George Creel
Conscientious objector
Espionage Act
Great Migration
Vladimir Lenin
John J. Pershing
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge
Reparations
Irreconcilables
Reservationists
Wilson’s Fourteen Points
1918 Influenza epidemic
Red Scare
Palmer Raids
Sacco and Vanzetti
Warren G. Harding
Creditor

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Vocabulary for Boom and Bust:

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Warren G. Harding (“Return to Normalcy”)
Teapot Dome Scandal
Laissez-faire economics
Speculation
Buying on the margin
Installment plan
Dust Bowl
Dorthea Lange
Scopes Trial
Herbert Hoover
Bonus Army
Babe Ruth
Bootlegger
Speakeasy
Langston Hughes
Harlem Renaissance
Flapper
Margaret Sanger
19th Amendment
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
First 100 Days (of the presidency of F. D. Roosevelt)
Social Security Act
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)
National Industrial Recovery Act
Civilian Conservation Corps
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Public Works Administration
Securities and Exchange Commission
Tennessee Valley Authority
Roosevelt’s court packing scheme
The New Deal
Deficit spending
“fireside chats”
Roosevelt’s Brain Trust

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Vocabulary for World War II:

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Totalitarianism
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Blitzkrieg
Axis Powers
Allies
Winston Churchill
Neutrality Act of 1939
Tripartite Pact
Lend-Lease Act
Atlantic Charter
Hideki Tojo
Pearl Harbor
WAC
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan Death March
Battle of Coral Sea
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George Patton, Jr.
Unconditional surrender
Tuskegee Airmen
Chester Nimitz
Battle of Midway
A. Philip Randolph
Executive Order 8802
Internment
Rationing
Office of War Information
D-Day
Battle of the Bulge
Harry Truman
Island hopping
Kamikaze
Albert Einstein
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Manhattan Project
Holocaust
Nuremburg Trials
Kristallnacht
War Refugee board
Yalta Conference
United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Geneva Convention

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Vocabulary for Civil Rights and Post War America:

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GI Bill of Rights
Baby boom
Taft-Hartley Act
Fair Deal
Interstate Highway Act
Sunbelt
Service sector
Information industry
AFL-CIO
Consumerism
Nuclear family
Benjamin Spock
Rock-and-roll
Elvis Presley
Jonas Salk
De jure segregation
De facto segregation
Thurgood Marshall
Brown vs. Board of Education
Earl Warren
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Rosa Parks
Montgomery bus boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sit-in
SNCC
Freedom ride
James Meredith
Medgar Evers
March on Washington filibuster
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Freedom Summer
Fannie Lou Hamer
Voting Rights Act
Twenty-fourth Amendment
Kerner Commission
Malcolm X
Black Power
Black Panthers
CORE Conference
Southern Christian Leadership

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Vocabulary for Cold War and Vietnam

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Richard Nixon
Lyndon Johnson
John Kennedy
Dwight Eisenhower
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Joseph McCarthy
McCarthyism
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
AlgerHiss
Hollywood Ten
Blacklist
Henry Kissinger
Selective Service Act
Korean War: Causes, major events, results, Key people
38th Parallel
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnam
Détente
Salt I and II
War Powers Act
My Lai
Fall of Saigon
Operation Rolling Thunder
Pentagon Papers
Woodward and Bernstein
Agent Orange
Napalm
Gulf of Tonkin
Tet Offensive
William Westmoreland
Environmental Movement
EPA
National Highway Act
Peace Corps
VISTA
New Frontier
War on Poverty
Space Race
NASA
John Glenn
Sputnik
Watergate
John Dean
Sam Ervin
The Plumbers
US vs. Nixon
24th, 25th, 26th Amendments
1952, 1960, 1964, 1968 Elections

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Vocabulary for Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties

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The Environmental Movement: Earth Day, Silent Spring, EPA, Clean Air Act (1970), Endangered Species Act (1973), Love Canal, Three Mile Island
Stagflation
Silent majority
OPEC
Affirmative action
Watergate
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
25th Amendment
Gerald Ford
Executive privilege
Jimmy Carter
Christian fundamentalists
Me Generation
Transcendental Meditation
Televangelists
Helsinki Accords
SALT II
New Right
Moral Majority
Supply-side economics
S&L Crisis
Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, William Rehnquist
Equal Access Act
A Nation at Risk
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Mikhail Gorbachev
Glasnost
Perestroika
Iran-Contra Affair
Manuel Noriega
Tiananmen Square
Apartheid
Nelson Mandela
Operation Restore Hope
Operation Desert Storm
Personal computers
Biotechnology
Internet
Globalization
Multinational corporations
Service economy
H. Ross Perot
Contract with America
Kenneth Starr
NAFTA
GATT
World Trade Organization
Ethnic cleansing
Al Qaeda
No Child Left Behind
Taliban
Afghanistan
Patriot Act
Department of Homeland Security
Condoleezza Rice
Immigration Act of 1990
Bilingual education
Immigration and Control Act of 1986
Privatizing
1994 Violence Against Women Act

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Vocabulary for 21st Century and Globalization:

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George W. Bush
Bush v. Gore
No Child Left Behind Act
Afghanistan
Taliban
Patriot Act
Department of Homeland Security
WMD
Immigration Act of 1990
Bilingual education
Immigration and Control Act of 1986
Affirmative action
Violence Against Women Act
Privatize
Barack Obama
Sarah Palin
John McCain
Hillary Clinton
Race to the Top

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