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Background to American History American Revolution Jonathan 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. 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