Advanced Placement United States History
Advanced Placement United States History
Key Terms and Concepts (KTCs)
Battle of Lake Erie by William H. Powell. Shows Oliver Hazard Perry during the Battle of Lake Erie-1813, transferring from the Lawrence to the Niagara
Chapter 1: Worlds Collide: Europe, Africa, & America, 1450-1620 Key Terms and Concepts
Amerigo Vespucci Hernan Cotres Aztecs Hopewell Culture Bartholomeu Dias John Calvin Christopher Columbus Martin Luther civic humanism Mayans Conquistadors Mesoamerica Eastern Woodland Peoples Mississippian Civilization Elizabeth I (England) Moors: Spain Enclosure Acts Nicolo Machiavelli European Renaissance Outwork Ferdinand Magellan Price Revolution Ferdinand of Aragon & Isabel of Castile Prince Henry the Navigator Fransico Pizarro Protestant Reformation Gentry Pueblo Peoples Giovanni de Verrazano Triangle Trade (slavery) Great Biological Exchange/Columbian Exchange Vasco de Balboa Henry VIII (England)
Chapter 2: Worlds Collide: Europe, Africa, & America, 1450-1620
Key Terms and Concepts
"City on a Hill" Lord Baltimore "Peaceable Kingdom" Lost Colony of Roanoke Albany Plan of Union Marflower Compact Algonquian Peoples Maryland Toleration Act-1649 Anne Hutchinson Massachusettes Bay Colony Bacon's Rebellion'New Amsterdam Metacom's Rebellion Chesapeake Colonies Middle Colonies Dominion of New England New England Colonies Fundamental Orders of Connecticut Pequot War George Whitefield Predestination Headright System Puritans Henry Hudson Restoration Colonies Huron Robert de la Salle Indentures Roger Williams Iroquois Confederation Salem Witch Trials Jamestown Samuel de Champlain Jesuits Society of Friends John Peter Zenger St. Lawrence Valley John Winthrop Treaty of Tordesillas Jonathan Edwards Virginia Company King Phillip's War Virginia House of Burgesses Line of Demarcation William Bradford
Chapter 3: The British Empire in North Ameica, 1660-1750 & Chapter 4: Growth & Crisis in Colonial Society, 1720-1765
Key Terms and Concepts
"New Light Churches" Navigation Acts Battle of Quebec Nort & South Carolina Regulators Benjamin Franklin Paxton Boys Deism Pietism Dominion of New England Pontiac's Rebellion Enlightenment Proclamation of 1763 Freehold Society-New England Robert Pearle Glorious Revolution-1688 Salutary Neglect Great Awakening Scots-Irish Gullah People/Dialect Seven Years War/French & Indian War Household Mode of Production Shawnee Marriage Portion South Atlantic System Mennonites Southern Gentry Mercantilism Western Reserve Middle Passage William Penn Molasses Act William Pitt
Chapter 6: The New Political Order, 1776-1800
Key Terms and Concepts
Admiral de Grasse Francis Marion
Articles of Confederation Franco-American Alliance of 1778
Baron von Steuben Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne
Battle of Guilford's Court House Hessians Battle of King's Mountain Joseph Brant
Battle of Monmouth Kazimierz Pulaski
Battle of Saratoga Lexington & Concord
Battle of Yorktown Lord Dunmore
Battle of Yorktown Loyalists (Tories)
Benedict Arnold manumission
Benjamin Franklin (role during Revolution) Marquis de Lafayette
Bunker Hill/Breed's Hill Molly Pitcher
Charles Cornwallis Nathaniel Greene
Common Sense Olive Branch Petition
Comte de Rochambeau Patriots (Rebels)
Continental Army Peace of Paris, 1783
Count de Rochambeau Regulators
Declaration of Independence Thomas Paine
Fort Ticonderoga Valley Forge, PA
Chapter 7: The New Political Order, 1776-1800
Key Terms and Concepts
"Elastic Clause" John Jay "Midnight Judges" Judiciary Act of 1789 "Supremacy Clause" Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions "XYZ Affair" National Debt: 1790s (Hamilton's view) 3/5 Compromise Naturalization Act, 1790 Alexander Hamilton New Jersey Plan Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798 Notes on the State of Virginia antifederalists Panic of 1797 Bank of the United States Party System: 1790s Bill of Rights Pinckney's Treaty Connecticut/Great Compromise Protective Tariff Democratic-Republicans Edmond Genet Quasi-French War Excise Tax Report on Manufactures, 1791 Federalist Papers Report on Public Credit, 1790 federalists Strict vs. Loose Construction Federalists Virginia Plan James Madison Whisky Rebellion Jay's Treaty
Chapter 8: Dynamic Change: Western Settlement & Eastern Capitalism, 1790-1820
Key Terms and Concepts
"Burr Conspiracy" Henry Clay "Mr. Madison's War" impressment "Turnpike Era" James Fenimore Cooper Aaron Burr John C. Calhoun Adams-Onis Treaty John Marshall Andrew Jackson John Quincy Adams Battle of Lake Erie Judicial Review Battle of New Orleans Judiciary Act of 1801 Chesapeake-Leopard Affair Lewis and Clark Expedition Clermont Macon's Bill No. 2 Daniel Webster Marbury v. Madison, 1803 Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 1819 National Road Election of 1800 Non-Intercourse Act Eli Whitney Robert Fulton Embargo Act of 1807 Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817) Erie Canal Sacagawea First Seminole War (1817-1818) Tecumseh Fletcher v. Peck, 1810 The Prophet, Tenskwatawa Francis Scott Key Treaty of Ghent (1814) Gen. William Henry Harrison War Hawks Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824 Washington Irving Hartford Convention Zebulon Pike
Chapter 11: A Democratic Revolution, 1820-1844
Key Terms and Concepts
1832 Tariff Maysville Road Bill Albany Regency Maysville Road veto Alexis de Tocqueville National-Republicans American System Nicholas Biddle Anti-Masonsonic movement Old Hickory Aroostock War (1842) Old Kinderhook Black Hawk War (1832) Panic of 1837 Charles River Bridge v. Warren (1837) Peggy Eaton Affair Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1830) Pet Banks compact theory of government Reign of King Mob Corrupt Bargain Roger B. Taney Distribution Act (1836) Second National Bank of the U. S. Door Rebellion (1842) Second Party System egalitarianism Second Seminole War (1835-1842) Era of the Common Man soft money [paper currency] Five Civilized Tribes Specie Circular (1836) Force Bill (1830) Spoils System Freemasons sub-treasury system Great Triumvirate Tariff of Abominations hard money [specie] Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too! Independent Treasury Act Trail of Tears Indian Intercourse Act (1834) Treaties of Payne's Landing (1832-1833) Indian Removal Act of (1830) U. S. S. Creole infrastructure Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) Jacksonian Democracy Webster-Hayne Debate King Andrew Whigs Kitchen Cabinet Worcester v. Georgia (1831) Log Cabin & Hard Cider campaign
Chapter 12: Religion & Reform, 1820-1860 and Chapter 13 The Crisis of the Union, 1844-1960
"Burned-Over District" Lucretia Mott "Cult of Domesticity" Lucy Stone "separate spheres" theory Margaret Fuller American Colonization society Mary Lyon American Temperance Society McGuffey Reader Angelina & Sarah Grimké Mexician cession Brigham Young Mormons Brook Farm Mother Ann Lee Catharine Beecher Nat Turner's rebellion Civil Disobedience Nathanial Hawthorne communitarianism New Harmony Compromise of 1850 Oberlin College cotton gin Oneida Community Dorothea Dix phrenology Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857 popular sovereignty Edgar Allen Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson Elizabeth Cady Stanton Robert Owen Female Moral Reform Society Romanticism Frederick Douglass Self-Reliance Free Soil party Seneca Falls Convention Freeport Doctrine Shakers Fugitive Slave Law Stephen Douglas Gadsen Purchase Susan B. Anthony Godey's Lady's Book Sylvester Graham Harriet Beecher Stowe Texas Revolution/Independence Henry David Thoreau The "Benevolent Empire" Herman Melville Transcendentalism Horace Mann Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Hudson River School utopian socialism James Fennimore Cooper Walden John Humphrey Noyes Walt Whitman Joseph Smith Webster-Ashburton Treaty Kansas-Nebraska Act-1854 William Lloyd Garrison Know-Nothing party William Morton Little Women Wilmot Proviso Louisa May Alcott
Chapter 14 Two Societies at War, 1861-1865
"A Rich man's war but a poor man's fight!" King Cotton Diplomacy "Lost Cause" or "Lost Cause of the Confederacy" Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Alexander Stephens Mary Boykin Chestnut Anaconda Plan Matthew Brady Andersonville Monitor & Merrimac Antietam Morrill Land Grant Appomattox Pacific Railroad Act Chancellorsville Peace Democrats/Copperheads Clara Barton Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard Clement L. Vallandigham Robert E. Lee Conscription Act, 1863 Sherman's March to the Sea David Farragut Shiloh First Manassas The Killer Angels George Gordon Meade Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson' George McClellan Trent Affair Gettysburg Ulysses S. Grant Greenbacks Vicksburg James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart Wade-Davis Bill James Longstreet William H. Seward Jefferson Davis William Tecumseh Sherman John Buford John Wilkes Booth Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Chapter 15: Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Presidential Reconstruction 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments Radical Reconstruction Black Codes Radical Republicans Carpetbaggers Reconstruction Acts, 1867 Civil Rights Act, 18656 Thaddeus Stevens Compromise of 1877 Samuel Tilden Election of 1876 Scalawags Ex Parte Milligan 1866 Charles Sumner Field Order #15 Ten Percent Plan Force Acts Tenure of Office Act Freedman's Bureau Wade-Davis Bill Ku Klux Klan
Chapter 17: Captial & Labor in the Age of Enterprise 1877-1900 Chapter 18: The Politics of Late 19th Century America
"Crime of '73" James G. Blaine "Cross of Gold" speech Marcus Hanna "Front-Porch" campaign Mark Twain "Gospel of Wealth" Mary E. Lease "invisible hand" McKinley Tariff of 1890 "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa?--He's going to the White House, Ha! Ha! Ha!" Mugwumps "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" Munn v. Illinois (1877) Atlanta Compromise National Grange bimetallism Ocala Demands (1890) Bland-Allison Act (1878) Omaha Platform Coxey's Army Panic of 1893 Dynamic Sociology Pendleton Act (1883) Edward Bellamy Populist [Peoples'] Party Farmers' Alliance Roscoe Conkling Gilded Age Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) Gold Standard Act (1900) Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890) Gold-Bugs Silver-Bugs Greenback Party Social Gospel Half Breeds Stalwarts & Half Breeds Henry George sub-treasury plan Herbert Spenser The Wizard of Oz Horatio Alger William Graham Sumner Interstate Commerce Act (1887) William Jennings Bryan James B. Weaver Wilson-Gorman Tariff (1894)
Chapter 20: The Progressive Era
"Laboratory of Democracy" Hiram Johnson "New Freedom" Hull House "New Nationalism" Ida Tarbell "Square Deal" IWW-"Wobblies" 16th Amendment Jacob Reiis 17th Amendment Jane Addams 18th Amendment John Muir 1913 Armory Show Lincoln Steffens 19th. Amendment Lochner v US (1905) Alice Paul Louis Brandeis Ashcan School of Painting Mann-Elkins Act Australian ballot Margaret Sanger Bull Moose Party Meat Inspection Act (1906) Carrie Chapman Catt muckrakers Carrie Nation Newlands Reclamation Act (1902) Charles A. Beard Northern Securities Co. v. US (1904) Charles Evans Hughes Panic of 1907 Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914) Payne-Aldrich Tariff (1909) Dillingham Report Progressivism Election of 1912 Pure Food & Drug Act (1906) Equal Rights Amendment Robert La Follette Eugene Debs Settlement House Movement eugenics Sierra Club Federal Reserve Act The Jungle (1906) Federal Trade Commission The Shame of the Cities (1904) Francis Willard Thorstein Veblen's A Theory of the Leisure Class Frank Norris Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Gifford Pinchot Upton Sinclair Hepburn Act (1906) Walter Rauschenbusch
Chapter 21: An Emerging World Power, 1877-1914
"Big Stick" Policy Insular Cases (1901) "Colossus of the North" jingoism "Dollar Diplomacy" John Hay "Gentlemen's" Agreement" (1908) John J. ["Blackjack"] Pershing "Great White Fleet" José Martí "reconcentration" policy McKinley Tariff of 1890 "Remember the Maine! To Hell with Spain! Open Door Policy "Splendid Little War" Platt Amendment "White Man's Burden" Queen Liliuokalani "yellow" journalism Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine Alfred Thayer Mahan Rough Riders Anti-Imperialist League Rudyard Kipling Boxer Rebellion Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) Commodore George Dewey Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. (R-MA) Commodore Matthew Perry Teller Resolution Cuba libre The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1890) De Lome Letter Treaty of Kanagawa (1854) Elihu Root Treaty of Paris (1898) Emilio Aguinaldo Treaty of Portsmouth (1905) Francisco "Pancho" Villa William Randolph Hearst
Chapter 22: War & the American State 1914-1920
A. Mitchell Palmer Palmer Raids Abrams v. U. S. (1919) Red Scare American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU] Reservationists Archduke Franz Ferdinand Sacco & Vanzetti Trial Article 10 Sarajevo Bernard Baruch Schenck v. U. S. (1919) Big Four Sedition Act (1918) Central Powers Selective Service Act (1917) Chicago Race Riots Sussex Pledge Committee on Public Information Treaty of Versailles Doughboys Triple Alliance Espionage Act (1917) Triple Entente Fourteen Points U-Boat Great Flu Pandemic of 1918 Unrestricted Submarine Warfare Great Migration War Industries Board Jeannette Rankin (MT) War Labor Board League of Nations War Revenue Act (1917) Liberty Bonds War-Guilt clause Liberty Cabbage Wilsonianism Lusitania Women's Peace Party Marcus Garvey Zimmermann Telegram
Chapter 23: Modern Times, the 1920s
"Black Tuesday" [Oct. 29, 1929] Gertrude Stein "Jazz Age" Gov. Al Smith (NY) "Lost Generation" Harlem Renaissance "on-margin" buying Hawley-Smott Tariff "Return to Normalcy" Immigration Act of 1924 "Spirit of St. Louis" Jelly Roll Morton A Farewell to Arms Josephine Baker Al Capone Langston Hughes Andrew Mellon Leopold & Loeb Trial Babe Ruth Louis Armstrong Bonus Bill Madame C. J. Walker Charles Lindbergh National Origins Act (1924) Clarence Darrow Ohio Gang Claude McKay Scopes ["Monkey"] Trial Cotton Club Sinclair Lewis Dawes Plan Speakeasy Duke Ellington T.S. Elliot Elmer Gantry Teapot Dome Scandal Ernest Hemingway The business of America is business! F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby George Gershwin Volstead Act (1920) Georgia O'Keefe Zora Neale Hurston
Chapter 24: The Great Depression & Chapter 25: The New Deal, 1933-1939
20th Amendment Happy Days Are Here Again! 21st Amendment John L. Lewis Alf Landon John Maynard Keynes American Liberty League John Steinbeck Bank Holiday Judiciary Reorganization Bill (1937) Bonus Army Marian Anderson Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Mary McLeod Bethune Congress of Industrial Organizations-CIO New Deal Dr. Francis Townsend New Deal Coalition Dust Bowl Okies Eleanor Roosevelt Scottsboro Boys Emergency Banking Relief Act (1933) Second New Deal Every Man a King! Securities & Exchange Commission [SEC] Father Charles Coughlin Sen. Huey P. Long [LA] Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [FDIC] Share-the-Wealth program Fireside Chats Social Security Act-1935 First "Hundred Days" Tennessee Valley Authority [TVA] Francis Perkins The Grapes of Wrath Glass-Steagall Act (1933) US v. Butler (1936)
Chapter 26: The World at War 1939-1945
"Arsenal of Democracy" Neutrality Acts "Rosie the Riveter" Operation Overlord "Zoot Suit" Riots Panay incident A. Philip Randolph Potsdam Conference America First Committee Rosie the Riveter Casablanca Conference Selective Service Act (1940) Committee to Defend America Teheran Conference Executive Order 8802 Tuskegee Airmen Executive Order 9066 V-E Day J. Robert Oppenheimer V-J Day Lend Lease Act (1941) Wendell Wilkie Navajo "code-talkers Yalta Conference
Chapter 27: Cold War America 1945-1960
38th Parallel Julius & Ethel Rosenberg Alger Hiss Klaus Fuchs Army-McCarthy Hearings Marshall Plan Berlin Blockade McCarran Internal Security Act Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] McCarthyism Cold War National Housing Act of 1949 COMECON National Security Act (1947) Communist Control Act (1954) North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] containment NSC-68 Dennis et. al. v. US (1951) Red Channels Dixiecrats Red-baiting Executive Order 9835 red-lining Fair Deal Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) film noir Sen. Robert Taft (R-OH) General Douglas MacArthur Serviceman's Readjustment Act ["G.I. Bill"] (1944) George F. Kennan Syngman Rhee Governor Strom Thurmond (D-SC) Taft-Hartley Act (1947) Hollywood Ten The buck stops here! House Un-American Activities Committee [HUAC] Truman Doctrine Inchon landing (1950) Warsaw Pact Iron Curtain Whittaker Chambers
Chapter 28: The Affluent Society & the Liberal Consensus 1945-1960
A vast wasteland! National Defense Education Act (1958) Baby Boom" On the Road Beat Generation Payola Scandals Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, KS (1954) "Postwar Contract" Civil Rights Act of 1957 "Race" Music David Riesman Rosa Parks DDT Rustbelt Dr. Benjamin Spock Southern Christian Leadership Conference [SCLC] Dr. Jonas Salk Southern Manifesto Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sputnik I "Duck-and-Cover" Sunbelt Explorer I The Affluent Society Gov. Orval Faubus (D-AR) "The American Dream" J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye Jack Kerouac The Lonely Crowd Jackie Robinson "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" James Dean The Organization Man Keynesian Economics The Other America Levittown, LI "Throwaway Society" Little Rock Nine Thurgood Marshall Michael Harrington UNIVAC Montgomery, AL Bus Boycott White Citizens' Councils National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA] William H. Whyte
Chapter 29: War Abroad & at Home the Vietnam Era, 1961-1975
Environmental Protection Agency "Black Power" (EPA) National Organization of Women (NOW) "Domino Theory" Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Operation "Rolling Thunder" "Earth Day" Escobedo v. IL (1964) Peace Corps "Great Society" Eugene "Bull" Connor Rachel Carson "Landslide Lyndon" Freedom Riders Richard Milhaus Nixon (R-CA) "New Frontier" Freedom Summer Robert McNamara "New Left" General William Westmoreland Roe v. Wade (1973) "search-and-destroy "[Zippo] mission Geraldine Ferraro (D-NY) Sandra Day O'Connor "Silent Majority" Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) "Southern Strategy" Gov. George Wallace (D-AL) Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-MN) Agent Orange Griswold v. CT (1965) Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY) American Indian Movement [A. I. M.] Haight-Ashbury Sexual Politics Baker v. Carr (1962) Head Start Silent Spring Bay of Pigs Invasion Hippies Sirhan Sirhan Berkeley Free Speech Movement Ho Chi Minh Trail Southern Christian Leadership Conference [SCLC] Berlin Wall I Have a Dream speech Spiro T. Agnew (R-MD) Betty Friedan Ich Bin Ein Berliner! Stokely Carmichael Black Panthers Indian Civil Rights Act (1968) Tet Offensive (1968) Bobby Seale James Earl Ray The Chicago Seven Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee James Meredith The Feminine Mystique Caesar Chavez Kate Millett Title IX (1972) Chief Justice Earl Warren Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963) Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964) Civil Rights Act of 1964 Malcolm X Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out Civil Rights Act of 1968 March on Washington (1963) Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey Clean Air Act (1970) Mayor Richard J. Daley Volunteers in Service to America [VISTA] Clean Water Act (1971) Medicare / Medicaid (1965) Voting Rights Act (1965) Counterculture Miranda v. AZ (1966) War on Poverty Cuban Missile Crisis My Lai Massacre (1968) Watts Riots Dr. Timothy Leary napalm Woodstock '69 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1965) Nation of Islam [Black Muslims] Young Americans for Freedom