Foundations: Background to American History
American Revolution Separation of Power Seventh Amendment
Jonathan Trumbull Federalism Eighth Amendment
John Peter Checks & Balances Alexis de Tocqueville
Declaration of Independence Popular Sovereignty Liberty
Unalienable Rights Bill of Rights Eminent Domain
John Hancock First Amendment Egalitarianism
Benjamin Rush Second Amendment Individualism
Charles Carroll Third Amendment Populism
John Witherspoon Fourth Amendment Laissez-faire
U.S. Constitution Fifth Amendment
Limited Government Sixth Amendment
Industrialization and the Gilded Age:
Bessemer Process Entrepreneurs Strike
Transcontinental Railroad Andrew Carnegie Knights of Labor
Free Enterprise System John D. Rockefeller American Federation of Labor
Corporate Unions Samuel Gompers
American Society in Transition:
Urbanization New Immigrants Klondike Gold Rush
Demography Ethnic Ghettos Homestead Act
Tenement Nativists Indian Wars
Political Machine Americanization Reservations
Political “bosses” Chinese Exclusion Act Dawes Act
Immigration Frontier American Indian Citizenship Act “Push” and “Pull” factors Great Plains
The Progressive Era:
Interstate Commerce Act Upton Sinclair William H. Taft
William Jennings Bryan Jane Addams Woodrow Wilson
Third Parties W.E.B. DuBois Federal Reserve Act
Progressive Movement Seventeenth Amendment National Park Service
Social Gospel Movement Theodore Roosevelt Susan B. Anthony
Muckrakers Square Deal Nineteenth Amendment
America Builds an Empire:
Foreign Policy Theodore Roosevelt Open Door Policy
Spanish-American War Imperialism Boxer Rebellion
Joseph Pulitzer Alfred Thayer Mohan Panama Canal
William Randolph Platt Amendment Big Stick Policy
Yellow Journalism Queen Liliuokalani Dollar Diplomacy
De Lôme Letter Sanford B. Dole “Watchful Waiting”
U.S.S Maine John Hay Pancho Villa
America in WWI:
World War 1 Schenck vs. U.S. Woodrow Wilson
Zimmerman Telegram American Expeditionary Force Fourteen Points
Freedom of the Seas John J. Pershing Versailles Treaty
Lusitania Battle of Argonne Forest Reparations
Sussex Pledge Alvin York League of Nations
Submarine Warfare Trench Warfare Henry Cabot Lodge
Selective Service Act U-Boats Isolationism
The “Roaring 20s”:
Roaring Twenties Henry Ford Eugenics
“Return to Normalcy” Prohibition Flapper
Red Scare Frances Willard Tin Pan Alley
Teapot Dome Scandal Eighteenth Amendment Great Migration
Warren Harding Twenty-first Amendment Harlem Renaissance
Calvin Coolidge Scopes “Monkey Trail” Langston Hughes
Herbert Hoover Clarence Darrow Marcus Garvey
“Rugged Individualism” Immigration Acts Charles Lindbergh
Great Depression/New Deal:
Great Depression “Hoovervilles” Civilian Conservation Corps
Herbert Hoover Fireside Chats Federal Reserve
Franklin D. Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt Gold Standard
John Steinbeck Relief, Recovery, Reform Fiat Money
Dorothea Lange National Recovery Adm. Twenty-second Amendment
Dust Bowl Baking Crisis Schechter Poultry vs. U.S.
New Deal Agric. Adjustment Acts Court-packing Plan
World War II:
Adolf Hitler Tuskegee Airmen Holocaust
Appeasement Executive Order 9066 Bataan Death March
Neutrality Acts Korematsu vs. U.S. Navajo Code Talker
Flying Tigers George Patton Battle of Midway
Pearl Harbor Dwight Eisenhower Nuremburg Trials
Rationing George Marshall Douglas MacArthur
Victory of Gardens Vernon Baker Harry Truman
Office of War Information Omar Bradley Hiroshima/ Nagasaki Cold War & Civil Rights:
Cold War House Un-American Thurgood Marshall Activities Committee Iron Curtain Martin Luther King Jr. Rosenberg Trial Truman Doctrine Rosa Parks Verona Papers Marshall Plan Orval Faubus “McCarthyism” Berlin Airlift Lester Maddox Jonas Salk Containment Policy George Wallace Civil Rights Movement Mao Zedong Civil Rights Acts Plessy vs. Ferguson Korean War Affirmative Action Brown vs. Board of Sputnik Education Billy Graham
The 1960s: Protest and Change:
John F. Kennedy Black Power Movement White vs. Regester
John Glenn Black Panthers Vietnam War
Bay of Pigs Invasion Chicano Movement Domino Theory
Cuban Missile Crisis Hector Garcia Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Lyndon B. Johnson Cesar Chavez Vietnamization
Great Society Dolores Huerta Roy Benavidez
Barry Goldwater Am. Indian Movement Tet Offensive
Anti-war Movement Mendez vs. Westminister Credibility Gap
Feminist Movement Hernandez vs. Texas “Silent Majority”
Betty Friedan Delgado vs. Bastrop ISD Fall of Saigon
Title IX Edgewood ISD vs. Kirby Beat Generation
Crisis and Resurgence 1969-2000:
Richard Nixon Newt Gingrich Iran-Contra Affair
Tinker vs. Des Moines Ronald Reagan Contract with America
Wisconsin vs. Yoder Sun Belt George H.W. Bush
Phyllis Schlafly Peace Through Strength Rust Belt
Environmental Protection Act Star Wars Persian Gulf War (EPA) Reaganomics Bill Clinton Endangered Species Act Reagan Doctrine Impeachment Détente Sandra Day O’Connor Hillary Clinton Watergate Scandal GATT/WTO Bill Gates Gerald Ford NAFTA Sam Walton OPEC National Rifle Association Estee lauder Jimmy Carter (NRA) Robert Johnson Camp David Accords Heritage Foundation Lionel Sosa Iran Hostage Crisis Moral Majority
America in the New Millenium:
George W. Bush Department of Homeland J-I-T Production Security Al Gore Jr. Robotics USA Patriot Act Presidential Election of 2000 Time-study Analysis War in Iraq September 11, 2001 Computer Revolution Hurricane Katrina World Trade Center Genetic Engineering New Orleans Levees Pentagon Multinational Corp. Financial Crisis of 2008 Osama bin Laden Demography Barack Obama Al-Qaeda Illegal Immigration Sonia Sotomayor Taliban Technology/Innovation War on Terror