U.S. Vocabulary List Domain I: Colonization through the Constitution

Standard 1 1. Virginia Company A. Virginia A. Joint-stock company i. Reason for founding B. Roanoke B. Maryland C. Jamestown i. Reason for founding i. Reason for founding ii. Lord Baltimore (Calvert) ii. John Smith C. N & S Carolina 1. Starving time D. Georgia iii. John Rolfe Standard 2 1. Tobacco 1. Mercantilism iv. Indentured Servants a. Adam Smith v. Headright System i. Wealth of Nations vi. Powhatan 2. Transatlantic Trade 2. House of Burgesses a. Triangular Trade 3. Bacon’s Rebellion i. Middle Passage 4. Pilgrims ii. African American Culture A. Mayflower Compact 3. Benjamin Franklin B. Separatists a. Enlightenment C. Thanksgiving b. Individualism 5. Massachusetts Bay Colony c. Social Mobility A. “City upon a Hill” 4. The Great Awakening B. Half-way Covenant a. Jonathan Edwards C. King Philip’s War i. Personal responsibility for i. Metacom salvation 6. Quebec ii. Sinners in the Hands of an A. Reason for founding Angry God 7. New England Colonies – Make Cool New Rims Standard 3 A. Economy 1. French & Indian War B. Massachusetts a. George Washington i. Reason for founding b. Quebec ii. Puritans c. Treaty of Paris 1763 iii. Massachusetts Charter d. Proclamation of 1763 iv. Salem Witch Trials 2. Navigation Act C. Connecticut 3. Sam Adams i. Thomas Hooker a. Sons of Liberty D. Rhode Island b. Daughters of Liberty i. Reason for founding 4. The Stamp Act ii. Roger Williams 5. Townshend Act iii. Anne Hutchinson 6. Boston Massacre E. New Hampshire a. Crispus Attucks 8. Middle Colonies – New Paint Never Dries 7. Committees of Correspondence A. New Amsterdam 8. Boston Tea Party i. New York 9. The Intolerable Acts 1. Reason for founding a. B. Pennsylvania b. i. Reason for founding c. ii. William Penn d. iii. Quakers 10. Thomas Paine C. New Jersey a. Common Sense D. Delaware i. Purpose 9. Southern Colonies ii. Arguments (2) 1 Standard 4 4. Constitutional Convention 1. 1st Continental Congress a. James Madison a. b. The Federalist Papers b. i. Written by? 2. 2nd Continental Congress ii. Purpose a. Olive Branch Petition 5. Roger Sherman b. General George Washington a. The Great Compromise c. Continental Army 6. 3/5 Compromise d. Declaration of Independence 7. Charles de Montesquieu i. Purpose a. Separation of Powers ii. John Locke i. Legislative, Judicial, & 1. Social Contract Theory Executive Branches 3. Revolutionary War b. Checks and Balances a. Lexington and Concord c. Limited Government i. Minutemen 8. Bill of Rights b. Valley Forge a. Voltaire i. Marquis de Lafayette 9. President George Washington ii. Baron Von Steuben a. Whiskey Rebellion c. Crossing the Delaware i. cause i. Trenton b. Policy of Neutrality or Nonintervention d. Saratoga c. Presidential precedent e. Battle of Yorktown 10. Political Parties i. General Charles Cornwallis E. Hamilton vs. Jefferson f. Treaty of Paris 1783 10. President John Adams Standard 5 A. XYZ Affair 1. Articles of Confederation B. Alien & Sedition Acts a. Weaknesses (2) C. Midnight Judges b. Strengths (2) 11. John Marshall 2. Shays’ Rebellion A. Judiciary Act of 1789 - Cause B. Judiciary Act of 1801 3. Federalist vs. Antifederalists C. Marbury v Madison - TJ vs. A. Ham D. McCullough v Maryland - Beliefs of each side E. Gibbons v Ogden

2 Domain II: New Republic through Reconstruction

Standard 6 1. Land Ordinance 1785 a. Corrupt bargain 2. Northwest Ordinance 1787 b. American Nationalism 3. President Thomas Jefferson 9. President Andrew Jackson a. Embargo Act of 1807 a. Jacksonian Democracy b. Louisiana Purchase b. Spoils System i. Purchased from & why sold c. Panic of 1837 ii. Lewis & Clark Expedition Standard 8 iii. Sacagawea 1. Missouri Compromise 4. President James Madison a. purpose a. War of 1812 2. Nat Turner i. Causes a. Signal? ii. Quebec 3. Nullification Crisis iii. Battle of New Orleans a. John C. Calhoun iv. Treaty of Ghent i. Sectionalism v. Results ii. States’ Rights 5. National Infrastructure 4. James K. Polk a. National Road a. Manifest Destiny i. Turnpikes & Toll Roads i. 54° 40’ or Fight b. Erie Canal b. Texas Revolution i. Steam boats i. Stephen Austin 6. Rise of NY City ii. Sam Houston 7. Monroe Doctrine iii. “Remember the Alamo” a. Support for iv. Battle of San Jacinto b. Argument against c. Wilmot Proviso d. Mexican-American War Standard 7 i. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1. 2nd Great Awakening ii. Gadsen Purchase a. Tent Revivals 5. Compromise of 1850 b. Abolitionist a. Fugitive Slave Act 2. Temperance 3. Abolition a. William Lloyd Garrison i. Liberator b. Frederick Douglass i. N. Star c. The Grimke Sisters d. Harriet Beecher Stowe i. Uncle Tom’s Cabin e. Sojourner Truth i. “Ain’t I a Woman” f. Harriet Tubman i. Moses ii. Underground Railroad 4. Quakers 5. Public Schools a. Horace Mann 6. Women’s Suffrage a. Susan B. Anthony

7. Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott a. Seneca Falls Conference 8. President John Q. Adams 3 Standard 9 iv. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson 1. Kansas-Nebraska Act v. Jefferson Davis a. Overturned? 8. Battles b. Bleeding Kansas a. Fort Sumter c. Pottawatomie Massacre b. Antietam 2. Popular Sovereignty c. Monitor v Merrimack a. Stephen Douglas d. Siege of Vicksburg 3. Dred Scott e. Gettysburg 4. John Brown f. Battle of Atlanta a. Harper’s Ferry g. March to the Sea 5. Abraham Lincoln h. Andersonville a. Suspension of Habeas Corpus i. Appomattox Courthouse b. Conscription Standard 10 c. Emancipation Proclamation 1. 13, 14th & 15th Amendments d. Gettysburg Address 2. Reconstruction e. Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address a. 10% Plan 6. Strategies b. Presidential Reconstruction a. North c. Radical Republican Reconstruction b. South d. Carpetbaggers and Scalawags 7. North vs. South 3. Freedmen’s Bureau a. Population a. Morehouse College b. Manufacturing 4. Black Codes c. Exports 5. Tenant Farming d. Food Production 6. Share Cropping e. Railroads 7. KKK f. Leadership 8. Hiram Revels i. Ulysses S. Grant 9. Johnson’s impeachment ii. Robert E. Lee 10. Redemption iii. William Tecumseh Sherman 11. Compromise of 1877

Domain III: Industrialization, Reform, and Imperialism

4 Standard 11 1. Industrialization in US e. 17th Amendment 2. Railroad Industry a. Land Grants 3. Muckrakers 3. Transcontinental Railroad a. Upton Sinclair a. Central Pacific i. The Jungle i. Chinese Laborers 1. Pure Food & b. Union Pacific Drug Act i. Irish Laborers 2. Meat 4. Steel Industry Inspection Act a. Bessemer Process b. Ida Tarbell 5. Andrew Carnegie c. Hull House 6. John D. Rockefeller i. Jane Addams a. Standard Oil Company ii. Tenements 7. Trusts 4. Plessy v. Ferguson 8. Monopolies a. Jim Crow Laws 9. Alexander Graham Bell 5. NAACP 10. Thomas Edison a. W.E.B. Dubois a. Menlo Park 6. Booker T. Washington b. Electric Light bulb, Standard 14 Phonograph & Motion 1. Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Pictures a. Chinese Exclusion Act Standard 12 b. Gentlemen’s Agreement 1. Dawes Act 2. Spanish American War 2. Treaty of Fort Laramie a. “Remember the Maine” 3. Sitting Bull b. Yellow Journalism 4. Wounded Knee i. Hurst & Pulitzer 5. Ellis Island c. Jose Marti 6. Angel Island d. San Juan Hill 7. American Federation of Labor i. Rough Riders a. Samuel Gompers 3. Philippine American War 8. Pullman Strike a. Emilio Aguinaldo a. Eugene V. Debs 4. Open Door Policy Standard 13 5. President Teddy Roosevelt 1. Populist Party a. Square Deal b. William Jennings Bryan b. Trust busting i. Cross of Gold c. Speak Softly but Carry a speech Big Stick 2. Progressives reforms d. Conservation Movement a. Temperance Movement e. Roosevelt Corollary Initiative f. Panama Canal b. Referendum 6. William Taft c. Recall a. Dollar Diplomacy d. 16th Amendment

Content Domain IV: Establishment as a World Power

Standard 15 1. President Woodrow Wilson 2. WWI – Causes a. Moral Diplomacy a. U.S. Neutrality 5 b. Unrestricted Sub Warfare Standard 18 c. Selective Service Act 1. FDR d. Lusitania a. Fireside chats e. Zimmerman Note b. Bank Holiday 3. WWI – Impacts c. 21st Amendment a. The Great Migration d. Eleanor Roosevelt b. Espionage & Sedition Acts e. New Deal Programs i. Eugene V. Debs i. TVA 4. 18th & 19th Amendments ii. FDIC a. Carrie Nation iii. CCC i. Temperance Movement iv. WPA b. Suffrage v. AAA i. Susan B. Anthony vi. PWA 5. 14 Points vii. NIRA a. League of Nations viii. Social Security Act 6. Treaty of Versailles ix. Wagner Act=NLRB a. War Guilt Clause x. Unions b. Reparations 1. AFL-CIO Standard 16 f. Huey P. Long 1. Isolationism g. Court-Packing Bill 2. Red Scare h. Neutrality Acts a. Communism i. “Cash & Carry” b. Palmer Raids j. Lend Lease Act c. Sacco and Vanzetti 3. Anti-Immigrant sentiments a. Revival of KKK 4. Scopes Monkey Trial a. Clarence Darrow b. William Jennings Bryan i. Fundamentalism 5. Radio & Movies 6. Jazz 7. Harlem Renaissance a. Langston Hughes b. Louis Armstrong c. Duke Ellington 8. Tin Pan Alley a. Irving Berlin 9. Henry Ford a. Model T b. Assembly line Standard 17 Standard 19 1. Causes of The Great Depression 1. A. Philip Randolph a. Farm mortgage foreclosures 2. WWII b. Overproduction a. Pearl Harbor c. Under Consumption b. Internment Camps d. Buying on Margin c. Mobilization e. Speculation i. Selective Service f. Use of credit ii. WAAC 2. Black Tuesday iii. WOW 3. The Great Depression 1. Rosie the Riveter a. Hoovervilles iv. Wartime conservation b. Bonus Army v. Rationing c. Dust Bowl d. Allied Powers i. Okies e. Axis Powers 6 f. Tehran Conference 2. Marshall Plan g. Yalta Conference 3. Berlin Airlift i. United Nations 4. NATO h. Potsdam Conference 5. Warsaw Pact i. European Theater a. Satellite nations i. D-Day = Normandy 6. Truman Doctrine 1. Operation a. Containment Overlord 7. Korean War 2. 5 Beaches a. 38th parallel ii. Battle of the Bulge 8. Spy Scandals iii. The Fall of Berlin a. Alger Hiss iv. Nuremberg Trials b. Rosenbergs j. Pacific Theater 9. McCarthyism i. Battle of Midway a. HUAC ii. Battle of Coral Sea i. Blacklist iii. Manhattan Project ii. Hollywood 10 1. Los Alamos, NM 10. Cuban Revolution 2. Hiroshima & a. Bay of Pigs Nagasaki b. Cuban Missile Crisis 11. Vietnam War Standard 20 a. Domino Theory 1. 22nd Amendment b. Ho Chi Minh Trail c. Tet Offensive

Content Domain V: Modern Era Standard 21 1. President Truman 2. Baby Boom a. Integration of U.S. Armed a. Levittown Forces 3. Beat Movement b. Truman Doctrine 4. President Eisenhower c. GI Bill a. Interstate Highway Act

7 b. Eisenhower Doctrine c. Democratic National Convention c. Brinksmanship Standard 24 d. U2 incident 1. Civil Rights Movement 5. Kennedy/Nixon Debates a. Sit-Ins 6. President John F. Kennedy (JFK) b. Freedom Rides a. Camelot c. Freedom Summer 2. NOW 7. TV News Coverage of the Civil a. Betty Friedan Rights Movement b. Gloria Steinem 8. Effects of Air Conditioning c. ERA = 28th Amendment 9. Effects of Personal computers 3. Cesar Chavez 10. Cold War a. United Farm Workers a. Sputnik I b. Grape boycott i. Space Race 4. Rachel Carson Standard 22 a. Silent Spring 1. Jackie Robinson b. DDT 2. Brown v. Board of Education c. EPA 3. Little Rock 9 d. Earth Day 5. Conservative Movement 4. Martin Luther King Jr. a. Barry Gold Water a. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” b. Montgomery Bus Boycott c. SCLC d. SNCC i. Stokely Carmichael e. “I Have a Dream” Speech 5. Counter Culture 6. Civil Rights Act of 1964 a. 24th Amendment 7. Voting Rights Act of 1965 8. Civil Rights Act 1968 a. Defacto segregation b. Dejure segregation Standard 23 1. Warren Court a. Miranda V. Arizona b. Roe v. Wade c. Regents of University of Standard 25 California v. Bakke 1. President Richard Nixon d. Gideon v Wainwright e. Détente 11. Assassination of President Kennedy f. Nixon’s Visit to China 12. President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) g. SALT Treaty a. “The Great Society” h. Watergate Scandal b. Medicare i. Nixon’s resignation c. “War on Poverty” i. Change in American d. Vietnam War attitude toward i. Gulf of Tonkin Presidency Resolution 2. President Gerald Ford ii. Anti-Vietnam War a. Nixon Pardon Movement 3. President Jimmy Carter 13. 1968 a. Camp David Accords a. Assassination of MLK, Jr. b. Iranian Revolution b. Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy c. Iranian Hostage Crisis 4. President Ronald Reagan 8 a. Reaganomics a. 9/11 b. Sandra Day O’Connor i. Department of c. Iran-Contra Scandal Homeland Security d. Fall of the Berlin Wall ii. Patriot Act e. Collapse of the Soviet Union b. War on Terrorism f. End of Cold War i. Operation Enduring 5. President Bill Clinton Freedom a. NAFTA ii. Operation Iraqi b. Impeachment of Clinton Freedom 6. 2000 Presidential Election 1. Saddam a. George W. Bush & Al Gore Hussein b. Electoral College 2. WMD 7. President George W. Bush

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