APUSH Terms 2023-2024

AP US History Terms for All Units

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FALL SEMESTER

Unit 1 - Era 1 - Corresponds approximately to Chapters 1-2

  1. Incas
  2. Aztecs
  3. Mayans
  4. Pueblos
  5. Creeks
  6. Choctaws
  7. Cherokees
  8. Iroquois Confederacy
  9. Hiawatha
  10. Vinland
  11. Portuguese slave trade
  12. Vasco da Gama
  13. Christopher Columbus
  14. Hispaniola
  15. Old world diseases – Smallpox, measles, yellow fever
  16. Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
  17. Vasco Nunez Balboa
  18. Ferdinand Magellan
  19. Juan Ponce de Leon
  20. Francisco Coronado
  21. Hernando De Soto
  22. Hernan Cortes
  23. John Cabot
  24. Giovanni da Verrazano
  25. Robert de La Salle
  26. Father Junipero Serra 
  27. nation-states
  28. Mound builders
  29. Cahokia
  30. Caravel
  31. plantation system
  32. Columbian exchange
  33. Conquistadores
  34. Capitalism
  35. Encomienda
  36. Mestizos
  37. Pope’s Rebellion
  38. Black Legend
  39. Ferdinand of Aragon
  40. Isabella of Castille
  41. Francisco Pizarro
  42. Bartolome de Las Casas
  43. Moctezuma
  44. Queen Elizabeth I
  45. Sir Francis Drake
  46. Sir Walter Raleigh
  47. Philip II (Spain)
  48. Spanish Armada
  49. French Huguenots
  50. Edict of Nantes
  51. Laws of Primogeniture
  52. Roanoke Island
  53. colonial charter
  54. James I

 

Unit 2 - Era 2 - Corresponds approximately to Chapters 3-5

  1. Joint stock companies
  2. Virginia Company of London
  3. Jamestown
  4. Captain John Smith
  5. John Rolfe
  6. Anglo-Powhatan Wars (First and Second)
  7. Powhatan
  8. Pocahontas
  9. Lord De La Warr
  10. House of Burgesses
  11. Lord Baltimore
  12. Maryland Act of Toleration
  13. Charles II
  14. English Restoration
  15. James Oglethorpe
  16. Protestant Reformation
  17. Barbados slave code
  18. Tuscarora War
  19. Yamasee Indians
  20. buffer colony
  21. Henry VIII
  22. Calvinism
  23. Predestination
  24. Church of England
  25. Puritans
  26. Separatists
  27. Mayflower Compact
  28. Massachusetts Bay colony
  29. Great Migration
  30. Captain Myles Standish
  31. Fundamental Orders
  32. Pequot War
  33. King Philip’s War
  34. New England Confederation
  35. English Civil War
  36. Dominion of New England
  37. Navigation Acts
  38. Glorious Revolution
  39. Salutary neglect
  40. Quakers
  41. Blue laws
  42. William Bradford
  43. John Winthrop
  44. Anne Hutchinson
  45. Roger Williams
  46. Massasoit
  47. Metacom
  48. Charles II
  49. Sir Edmund Andros
  50. William III
  51. Mary II
  52. Henry Hudson
  53. New Amsterdam
  54. William Penn
  55. Indentured servants
  56. Headright system
  57. Bacon’s Rebellion
  58. Middle passage
  59. Slave codes
  60. Congregational Church
  61. Half-Way Covenant
  62. Salem Witch Trials
  63. William Berkeley
  64. Nathaniel Bacon
  65. Leisler’s Rebellion
  66. Paxton Boys
  67. Regulator movement
  68. Triangular trade
  69. Molasses Act
  70. Stono Revolt
  71. Harvard College
  72. Great Awakening
  73. Old lights
  74. New lights
  75. Poor Richard’s Almanac
  76. Royal colonies
  77. Proprietary colonies
  78. Jonathan Edwards
  79. Benjamin Franklin
  80. George Whitefield
  81. John Trumbull
  82. Phillis Wheatley
  83. John Peter Zenger
 

Unit 3 - Era 3 - Corresponds approximately to Chapters 6-9

  1. King William’s War
  2. Queen Anne’s War
  3. King George’s War
  4. George Washington (as soldier/general)
  5. Fort Duquesne
  6. French and Indian War/Seven Years War
  7. Albany Congress (1754)
  8. William Pitt
  9. Louisbourg (1758)
  10. Peace of Paris
  11. Chief Pontiac's War
  12. Proclamation of 1763
  13. Mercantilism
  14. Navigation Law of 1650
  15. George Grenville
  16. Sugar Act
  17. Quartering Act
  18. Stamp Act
  19. Admiralty Courts
  20. Tea Act
  21. “Taxation without Representation”
  22. “Virtual Representation”
  23. Stamp Act Congress
  24. Non-importation Agreements
  25. Sons of Liberty
  26. Declaratory Act
  27. Townshend Acts
  28. Boston Massacre
  29. Crispus Attucks
  30. King George III
  31. Lord North
  32. Samuel Adams
  33. Committees of Correspondence (1772)
  34. Gov. Thomas Hutchinson
  35. Boston Tea Party (1773)
  36. Coercive Acts
  37. Repressive/Intolerable Acts (1774)
  38. Quebec Act (1774)
  39. First Continental Congress
  40. The Continental Association
  41. Patrick Henry
  42. Battles of Lexington & Concord
  43. John Hancock
  44. “Minute Men”
  45. Ethan Allen
  46. Marquis de Lafayette
  47. Benedict Arnold
  48. Paul Revere
  49. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
  50. Benjamin Franklin
  51. Thomas Jefferson
  52. Baron von Steuben
  53. Gaspee Incident
  54. Second Continental Congress
  55. Battle of Bunker Hill
  56. Olive Branch Petition
  57. Declaration of Independence
  58. Common Sense by Thomas Paine
  59. Nathaniel Greene
  60. Abigail Adams
  61. Richard Henry Lee
  62. Battle of Saratoga
  63. Battle of Yorktown
  64. Lord Charles Cornwallis
  65. Treaty of Paris (1783)
  66. Republican Motherhood
  67. John Locke
  68. Adam Smith 
  69. Enlightenment
  70. Articles of Confederation
  71. Land Ordinance of 1785
  72. Northwest Ordinance of 1787
  73. Shay’s Rebellion
  74. Annapolis Convention
  75. Constitutional Convention
  76. James Madison
  77. Alexander Hamilton
  78. Natural Rights Theory
  79. Republicanism
  80. States’ Rights
  81. Virginia Plan
  82. New Jersey Plan
  83. Connecticut Plan/Great Compromise
  84. Three-fifths Compromise
  85. Commercial Compromise
  86. Electoral College
  87. Federalists
  88. Anti-Federalists
  89. The Federalist Papers
  90. George Washington (as 1st president)
  91. John Jay
  92. Bill of Rights
  93. Judiciary Act of 1789
  94. Thomas Jefferson (as Sec. State & VP)
  95. Hamilton’s financial plan
  96. Federalism
  97. Pennsylvania Gradual Emancipation Law
  98. Proclamation of Neutrality (1793)
  99. Battle of Fallen Timbers
  100. Treaty of Greenville
  101. Jay Treaty (1794)
  102. Pinckney Treaty (1795)
  103. Whiskey Rebellion
  104. Democratic Republican Party
  105. Federalist Party
  106. Washington’s Farewell Address
  107. John Adams
  108. XYZ Affair
  109. Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
  110. Revolution of 1800
 

Unit 4 - Era 4 (part 1) - Corresponds approximately to Chapters 10-11 and 13

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. John Marshall
  3. Judiciary Act of 1801
  4. Midnight judges
  5. Judicial review
  6. Marbury v. Madison
  7. War with Tripoli
  8. Haitian Revolution
  9. Robert Livingston
  10. Aaron Burr
  11. Louisiana Purchase
  12. Corps of Discovery
  13. Meriwether Lewis & William Clark
  14. Sacajawea
  15. Impressment
  16. James Madison
  17. Chesapeake affair
  18. Embargo Act
  19. Non-Intercourse Act
  20. War hawks
  21. Macon’s Bill No. 2
  22. Tecumseh
  23. Tenskwatawa (The Prophet)
  24. Battle of Tippecanoe
  25. William Henry Harrison
  26. War of 1812
  27. “Old Ironsides”
  28. Oliver Hazard Perry
  29. Francis Scott Key
  30. Battle of Lake Erie
  31. Battle of Lake Champlain
  32. Andrew Jackson
  33. Battle of Horseshoe Bend
  34. Battle of New Orleans
  35. Treaty of Ghent
  36. Hartford Convention
  37. Rush-Bagot Agreement
  38. Tariff of 1816
  39. Henry Clay 
  40. Clay’s American System
  41. “Loose Construction”
  42. “Strict Construction”
  43. Era of Good Feelings
  44. John C. Calhoun
  45. McCulloch v. Maryland
  46. Panic of 1819
  47. Tallmadge Amendment
  48. Missouri Compromise
  49. Cohens v. Virginia
  50. Gibbons v. Ogden
  51. Fletcher v. Peck
  52. Dartmouth College v. Woodward
  53. Florida Purchase Treaty (Adams-Onis Treaty)
  54. Monroe Doctrine
  55. James Monroe
  56. John Quincy Adams
  57. Samuel Slater
  58. Cyrus McCormick
  59. McCormick reaper
  60. Eli Whitney
  61. Robert Fulton
  62. Samuel B. Morse
  63. DeWitt Clinton
  64. Elias Howe
  65. Isaac Singer
  66. John Deere
  67. Cyrus Field
  68. John Jacob Astor
  69. Industrial revolution (1830s)
  70. Lowell system
  71. Transportation revolution (1830s)
  72. Market revolution
  73. Nativism
  74. Know Nothing Party
  75. Cult of domesticity
  76. Cotton gin
  77. Cumberland Road
  78. Maysville Road Veto
  79. Erie Canal
  80. Clipper ships
  81. Commonwealth v. Hunt
 

Unit 5 - Era 4 (part 2) - Corresponds approximately to Chapters 12 and 14-15

  1. Andrew Jackson
  2. John C. Calhoun
  3. Henry Clay
  4. Martin Van Buren
  5. John Quincy Adams
  6. Daniel Webster
  7. Nicholas Biddle
  8. Stephen Austin
  9. William Henry Harrison
  10. Sam Houston
  11. Santa Anna
  12. The Alamo
  13. Common man
  14. Nullification
  15. Spoils system
  16. Anti-Masonic Party
  17. Twelfth Amendment
  18. "Corrupt Bargain"
  19. Tariff of Abominations
  20. Tariff of 1832
  21. Specie Circular
  22. Tariff of 1833
  23. Seminole Wars
  24. Worcester v. Georgia
  25. Indian Removal Act
  26. Trail of Tears
  27. Panic of 1837
  28. Force Bill
  29. Bank of the United States (re-chartering of)
  30. Independent treasury
  31. "Kitchen cabinet"
  32. Second Great Awakening
  33. Burned Over Districts
  34. Mormons
  35. American Temperance Society
  36. Seneca Falls Convention
  37. Oneida community
  38. Shakers
  39. Prison reform: Auburn system
  40. Prison reform: Penitentiary system
  41. Hudson River School
  42. Romanticism
  43. Transcendentalism
  44. Charles G. Finney
  45. Joseph Smith
  46. Brigham Young
  47. Horace Mann
  48. Noah Webster
  49. William H. McGuffey
  50. Horace Greeley
  51. Dorthea Dix
  52. Lucretia Mott
  53. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  54. Susan B. Anthony
  55. John J. Audubon
  56. James Fenimore Cooper
  57. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  58. Henry David Thoreau
  59. Walt Whitman
  60. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  61. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  62. Nat Turner’s Rebellion
  63. The Amistad
  64. American Colonization Society
  65. The Liberator
  66. American Anti-Slavery Society
  67. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  68. Mason-Dixon Line
  69. Gag Resolution
  70. Nat Turner
  71. William Lloyd Garrison
  72. David Walker
  73. Sojourner Truth
  74. Frederick Douglass
  75. Elijah P. Lovejoy
  76. Harriet Beecher Stowe
 

Unit 6 - Era 5 - Corresponds approximately to Chapters 16-21

  1. John Tyler
  2. Zachary Taylor
  3. James K. Polk
  4. John C. Fremont
  5. Manifest Destiny
  6. Webster-Ashburton Treaty
  7. “spot” resolution
  8. Tariff of 1842
  9. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
  10. Aroostook War
  11. Wilmot Proviso
  12. Mexican Cession
  13. William Henry Harrison (1841)
  14. 54°40’ or Fight
  15. Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
  16. Battle of Buena Vista (1847)
  17. Battles of Vera Cruz/Mexico City (1847)
  18. Election of 1848
  19. Stephen A. Douglas
  20. Franklin Pierce
  21. Daniel Webster
  22. Harriet Tubman
  23. Underground Railroad
  24. Henry Clay
  25. Popular sovereignty
  26. Free Soil Party
  27. Fugitive Slave Law
  28. "Beecher's Bibles"
  29.  “fire-eaters”
  30. Ostend Manifesto
  31. Kansas-Nebraska Act
  32. California gold rush (1848)
  33. Seventh of March Speech (1850)
  34. Gadsden Purchase (1853)
  35. Republican Party (1854)
  36. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  37. Compromise of 1850
  38. John Brown
  39. James Buchanan
  40. Charles Sumner
  41. John C. Breckinridge
  42. Abraham Lincoln
  43. Sectionalism
  44. Uncle Tom’s Cabin 
  45. Pottawatomie Creek massacre
  46. Lecompton Constitution
  47. “Bleeding Kansas”
  48. Dred Scott decision
  49. Panic of 1857
  50. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  51. Freeport Doctrine
  52. Harper’s Ferry raid
  53. Crittenden Compromise
  54. Fort Sumter
  55. Habeas corpus
  56. New York Draft Riots
  57. Homestead Act
  58. Jefferson Davis
  59. Elizabeth Blackwell
  60. Clara Barton
  61. Battle of Bull Run (Manassas Junction)
  62. The Monitor & the Merrimack
  63. Second Battle of Bull Run
  64. Battle of Antietam
  65. Emancipation Proclamation
  66. Battle of Chancellorsville
  67. 13th Amendment
  68. Battle of Fredericksburg
  69. Battle of Gettysburg
  70. Gettysburg Address
  71. Siege of Vicksburg
  72. Sherman’s March to the Sea
  73. Copperheads
  74. Wilderness Campaign
  75. Appomattox Courthouse
  76. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson
  77. George B. McClellan
  78. Robert E. Lee
  79. George Pickett
  80. Ulysses S. Grant
  81. William Tecumseh Sherman
  82. John Wilkes Booth
  83. Freedmen's Bureau
  84. Ten Percent Plan
  85. Wade-Davis Bill
  86. Black Codes
  87. Civil Rights Bill
  88. 14th Amendment
  89. Reconstruction Act
  90. 15th Amendment
  91. Ex parte Milligan
  92. Redeemers
  93. Scalawags
  94. Carpetbaggers
  95. Ku Klux Klan
  96. Tenure of Office Act
  97. Seward’s Folly
  98. Andrew Johnson
  99. Thaddeus Stevens
  100. Edwin Stanton
 

SPRING SEMESTER

Unit 7 - Era 6 - Corresponds approximately to Chapters 22-26
  1. Gilded Age
  2. Grandfather clause
  3. Poll tax
  4. Sharecropping
  5. Jim Crow laws
  6. Plessy v. Ferguson
  7. Chinese Exclusion Act
  8. Horace Greeley
  9. J. Pierpont Morgan
  10. Transcontinental railroads
  11. Bessemer Process
  12. U.S. Steel
  13. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois
  14. Interstate Commerce Act
  15. Vertical integration
  16. Horizontal integration
  17. Trust (in business)
  18. Interlocking directorate
  19. Cornelius Vanderbilt
  20. Samuel F. B. Morse
  21. Alexander Graham Bell
  22. Thomas Alva Edison
  23. George Westinghouse
  24. Andrew Carnegie
  25. John D. Rockefeller
  26. Standard Oil Company
  27. Social Darwinism
  28. Sherman Antitrust Act
  29. United States v. E. C. Knight
  30. Adam Smith
  31. Gospel of Wealth
  32. Homestead Strike
  33. National Labor Union
  34. Knights of Labor
  35. Haymarket Square bombing
  36. American Federation of Labor
  37. Samuel Gompers
  38. Pullman Strike
  39. National Grange
  40. Granger laws
  41. Farmers' Alliance
  42. Populist (People's) Party
  43. Jacob S. Coxey
  44. Jane Addams
  45. Florence Kelley
  46. Charles Darwin
  47. Booker T. Washington
  48. W. E. B. Du Bois
  49. nativism
  50. New Immigration
  51. social gospel
  52. settlement house
  53. Hull House
  54. Salvation Army
  55. Women's Christian Temperance Union
  56. Tuskegee Institute
  57. Land-grant colleges
  58. Carrie Chapman Catt
  59. National American Woman Suffrage Association
  60. Helen Hunt Jackson
  61. Frederick Jackson Turner
  62. safety-valve theory
  63. Comstock Lode
  64. Homestead Act
  65. Joseph Pulitzer
  66. William Randolph Hearst
  67. Realism (in art and literature)
  68. Winslow Homer
  69. Henry George, Progress and Poverty
  70. Mark Twain
  71. Cardinal James Gibbons
  72. Frederick Law Olmstead
  73. Sitting Bull
  74. George A. Custer
  75. Little Big Horn
  76. Chief Joseph
  77. Geronimo
  78. Sioux Wars
  79. Nez Percé
  80. Apache
  81. Ghost Dance
  82. Battle of Wounded Knee
  83. Dawes Severalty Act
  84. Reservation system
  85. “waving the bloody shirt”
  86. Tweed Ring
  87. Credit Mobilier Scandal
  88. Whiskey Ring Fraud
  89. Jay Gould
  90. Panic of 1873
  91. Rutherford B. Hayes
  92. Samuel Tilden
  93. Compromise of 1877
  94. Pendleton Act
  95. James A. Garfield
  96. Chester Arthur
  97. Grover Cleveland
  98. Thomas B. Reed
  99. William McKinley
  100. Marcus Alonzo Hanna
  101. William Jennings Bryan
 
Unit 8 - Era 7 (part 1) - Corresponds approximately to Chapters 27-29
  1. Geneva Convention (1882)
  2. Big Sister policy
  3. McKinley Tariff (1890)
  4. Queen Liliuokalani
  5. Pan-Americanism
  6. De Lome Letter (1898)
  7. Walter Reed
  8. Sino-Japanese War
  9. William McKinley
  10. Henry Cabot Lodge
  11. William Randolph Hearst
  12. Joseph Pulitzer
  13. Yellow Journalism
  14. Dr. William C. Gorgas
  15. Panama Canal
  16. Jingoism
  17. Cuban Revolution
  18. The USS Maine
  19. Theodore Roosevelt
  20. George Dewey
  21. Insular Cases
  22. Teller Amendment
  23. Rough Riders
  24. Open Door Notes/Policy
  25. Hawaiian Revolution
  26. Treaty of Paris 1898
  27. Anti- Imperialist League
  28. Filipino Insurrection
  29. John Hay
  30. Platt Amendment
  31. Alfred T. Mahan
  32. Big Stick Policy
  33. Root-Takahira Agreement
  34. Boxer Rebellion
  35. Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
  36. General Valeriano Weyler
  37. Emilio Aguinaldo
  38. Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
  39. Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
  40. 16thAmendment
  41. 17thAmendment
  42. 18thAmendment
  43. 19thAmendment
  44. Initiative petition
  45. Recall
  46. Referendum
  47. Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy
  48. Elkins Act
  49. Clayton Antitrust Act
  50. Dollar Diplomacy
  51. Eugene V. Debs
  52. Prohibition
  53. Pure Food & Drug Act
  54. Muckrakers
  55. Florence Kelley
  56. Ida M. Tarbell
  57. Jacob Riis
  58. John Muir
  59. Lincoln Steffens
  60. Upton Sinclair
  61. Lochner v. New York
  62. Meat Inspection Act
  63. Muller v. Oregon
  64. Pancho Villa
  65. Payne-Aldrich Tariff
  66. Robert La Follette, Sr.
  67. Triangle Shirtwaist fire
  68. Underwood-Simmons Tariff
  69. William Howard Taft
  70. Woodrow Wilson
  71. Federal Reserve Act
  72. Federal Trade Commission
  73. Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
  74. Central Powers
  75. Allies (in WWI)
  76. The Lusitania 
  77. John J. Pershing
  78. Kaiser Wilhelm II
  79. Franz Ferdinand
  80. Charles Evans Hughes
  81. Zimmerman Note
  82. Fourteen Points
  83. League of Nations
  84. Committee on Public Information
  85. Espionage Act
  86. Sedition Act
  87. Trench warfare
  88. Second Battle of the Marne
  89. Meuse-Argonne Offensive
  90. Battle of Chateau-Thierry
  91. Selective Service Act
  92. Submarine Warfare
  93. The Armistice
  94. National War Labor Board
  95. Schenck v. United States
  96. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
  97. War Industries Board
  98. Bolshevik Revolution
  99. Irreconcilables
  100. Treaty of Versailles
 
Unit 9 - Era 7 (part 2) - Corresponds approximately to Chapters 30-33
Unit 9 Terms Part 1
    1. 19thAmendment
    2. 18thAmendment
    3. A. Mitchell Palmer
    4. Al Capone
    5. John T. Scopes
    6. Clarence Darrow
    7. Charles Lindbergh
    8. Herbert Hoover
    9. Alice Paul
    10. Henry Cabot Lodge
    11. James M. Cox
    12. Margaret Sanger
    13. Sigmund Freud
    14. F. Scott Fitzgerald
    15. Ernest Hemingway
    16. William Faulkner
    17. “Buying on margin”
    18. Emergency Quota Act (1921)
    19. Warren G. Harding
    20. Calvin Coolidge
    21. Model T
    22. Jazz music
    23. Marcus Garvey
    24. Henry Ford
    25. Langston Hughes
    26. Bible Belt
    27. Red Scare
    28. Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti
    29. Ku Klux Klan
    30. Immigration Act of 1924
    31. Volstead Act
    32. Religious Fundamentalism
    33. Modernism
    34. “Flappers”
    35. Nine Power Treaty
    36. Kellogg Briand Pact
    37. Fordney-McCumber Tariff
    38. Teapot Dome Scandal
    39. Dawes Plan
    40. Election of 1928
    41. Herbert C. Hoover
    42. Alfred E. Smith
    43. Muscle Shoals controversy
    44. Albert B. Fall
    45. Stock Market Crash 1929
    46. Hoovervilles
    47. Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
    48. Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
    49. Bonus Army
    50. Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam)
    51. Franklin D. Roosevelt
    52. New Deal
    53. “Hundred Days”
    54. “Brain Trust”
    55. Eleanor Roosevelt
    56. Dust Bowl
    57. Henry A. Wallace
    58. Harold L. Ickes
    59. Frances Perkins
    60. Glass-Steagall Banking Act
    61. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
    62. Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC)
    63. Securities Exchange Act
    64. Adjusted Compensation Act (Bonus Act of 1936)
    65. Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 (AAA)
    66. US v. Butler
    67. Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)
    68. Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
    69. Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (2nd AAA)
    70. Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
    71. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
    72. National Recovery Act (NRA of NIRA)
    73. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. US
    74. Public Works Administration (PWA)
    75. Civil Works Administration (CWA)
    76. Works Progress Administration (WPA)
    77. Harry Hopkins
    78. Father Charles Coughlin
    79. Francis E. Townsend
    80. Huey P. Long
    81. Social Security Act/Administration (SSA)
    82. National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) (NLRA)
    83. NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
    84. Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
    85. John L. Lewis
    86. Unemployment Compensation
    87. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
    88. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
    89. Court Packing Plan
    90. Fair Labor Standards Act (Wages and Hours Law) (FLSA)
    91. 20thAmendment
    92. 21stAmendment
    93. Recession of 1937
 
Unit 9 Terms Part 2
    1. Washington Disarmament Conference
    2. Kellogg-Briand Pact
    3. Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, & 1937
    4. Rome-Berlin Axis
    5. Panay incident
    6. Destroyers for bases deal
    7. Good Neighbor Policy
    8. FDR's Quarantine speech
    9. Joseph Stalin
    10. Benito Mussolini
    11. Francisco Franco
    12. Adolph Hitler
    13. Moscow-Berlin Pact (Hitler-Stalin Pact)
    14. Atlantic Charter
    15. Lend-Lease Act
    16. Bataan Death March
    17. Attack on Pearl Harbor
    18. Executive Order 9066
    19. Manzanar
    20. War Production Board
    21. Office of Price Administration
    22. National War Labor Board
    23. WAACS & WAVES
    24. Four Freedoms Speech
    25. Bracero program
    26. Fair Employment Practices Commission
    27. Congress of Racial Equality
    28. Code talkers
    29. Invasion of North Africa
    30. D-Day/Normandy Invasion
    31. V-E Day
    32. Potsdam Conference
    33. Albert Einstein
    34. J. Robert Oppenheimer
    35. Battle of Coral Sea
    36. Battle of Midway
    37. Battle of Guadalcanal
    38. Battle of Leyte Gulf
    39. Battle of Okinawa
    40. Battle of Iwo Jima
    41. Island Hopping/Leapfrogging
    42. Great Marianas Turkey Shoot
    43. Manhattan Project
    44. Hiroshima
    45. Nagasaki
    46. V-J Day
    47. Harry S. Truman
    48. Battle of the Bulge
    49. Winston Churchill
    50. General Dwight D. Eisenhower
    51. General George Patton
    52. General Douglas MacArthur
    53. Admiral Chester Nimitz
    54. General Marshal Rommel
    55. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
    56. Emperor Hirohito
    57. Kamikazes
    58. Hermann Goering
    59. Buchenwald
    60. Auschwitz
    61. Zoot Suit Riots
    62. Korematsu v. US
    63. Thomas E. Dewey
    64. Tuskegee Airmen
    65. Rosie the Riveter
    66. Casablanca Conference
    67. Cairo Conference
    68. Yalta Conference
    69. Tehran Conference
    70. Dumbarton Oaks Conference
 
Unit 10 - Era 8 - Corresponds approximately to Chapters 34-37
 
  1. “Baby Boom”
  2. Dr. Benjamin Spock
  3. “Containment” doctrine
  4. 22nd Amendment
  5. Harry S Truman
  6. GI Bill
  7. “Sunbelt”
  8. Levittown
  9. Berlin Airlift
  10. HUAC
  11. Marshall Plan
  12. Truman Doctrine
  13. United Nations
  14. Warsaw Pact
  15. NATO 
  16. Nuremberg Trials
  17. Geneva Conference (1954)
  18. Taft-Hartley Act
  19. Iron Curtain
  20. Fair Deal
  21. Korean War/38th parallel
  22. Gen. Douglas MacArthur
  23. H-Bomb
  24. McCarthyism
  25. Army-McCarthy hearings
  26. Rosenberg Trial
  27. Nikita Khrushchev
  28. Beat Generation
  29. Rock ‘n’ Roll
  30. Montgomery Bus Boycott
  31. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
  32. Little Rock 9
  33. Orval Faubus
  34. Emmett Till
  35. Earl Warren
  36. Jackie Robinson
  37. Emmett Till
  38. Rosa Parks
  39. Dwight Eisenhower
  40. Eisenhower Doctrine
  41. Interstate Highway Act
  42. U2 spy plane
  43. Sputnik
  44. Fidel Castro
  45. Betty Friedan
  46. John F. Kennedy
  47. "The New Frontier"
  48. Bay of Pigs invasion
  49. Cuban Missile Crisis
  50. Berlin Wall
  51. Jack Ruby
  52. Lee Harvey Oswald
  53. NASA
  54. Greensboro Sit-ins
  55. Freedom Riders
  56. James Meredith
  57. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  58. Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
  59. March on Washington
  60. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  61. Black Panthers
  62. Lyndon B Johnson
  63. "The Great Society"
  64. Barry Goldwater
  65. Eugene McCarthy
  66. Malcolm X
  67. Thurgood Marshall
  68. Miranda v. Arizona
  69. Rachel Carson/Silent Spring
  70. Civil Rights Act of 1964
  71. Voting Rights Act of 1965
  72. Watts Riots
  73. Civil Rights Act of 1968
  74. Ngo Dinh Diem
  75. VietCong
  76. Ho Chi Minh
  77. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
  78. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
  79. Robert F Kennedy
  80. “Hawks” & “Doves”
  81. Tet Offensive
  82. Richard J. Daley
  83. Richard M. Nixon
  84. Silent Majority
  85. Nixon Doctrine
  86. Vietnamization
  87. My Lai Massacre
  88. Kent State University Massacre
  89. Pentagon Papers
  90. War Powers Act
  91. Watergate
  92. Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
  93. G. Gordon Liddy
  94. Détente
  95. Henry Cabot Lodge
  96. Henry Kissinger
  97. Jimmy Carter
  98. Roe v. Wade
  99. US v. Nixon
  100. Equal Rights Amendment
  101. Gerald Ford
  102. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
  103. Iranian Hostage Crisis
  104. Ayatollah Khomeini
  105. OPEC & the 1970s oil crisis
  106. S.A.L.T. II Agreement
  107. Panama Canal Treaties
  108. Three Mile Island
 
 
Unit 11 - Era 9 - Corresponds approximately to Chapters 38-40
  1. California Proposition 13
  2. California Proposition 65
  3. Equal Rights Amendment
  4. Ronald Reagan
  5. Margaret Thatcher
  6. Sandra Day O’Connor
  7. Reaganomics aka "Supply side economics"
  8. Keynesian economics
  9. Strategic Defense Initiative
  10. Sandinistas
  11. Contras
  12. Iran Contra affair
  13. Oliver North
  14. Moral Majority/Religious fundamentalism
  15. Jerry Falwell
  16. Walter Mondale
  17. Geraldine Ferraro
  18. Mikhail Gorbachev
  19. "Welfare state"
  20. UC Regents v. Bakke
  21. Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
  22. Glasnost & Perestroika
  23. Black Monday 1987
  24. Tiananmen Square riot (1989)
  25. Berlin Wall falls (1989)
  26. Americans with Disabilities Act
  27. “New Right” movement
  28. George H.W. Bush (aka “senior” or "Bush 41")
  29. Operation Desert Storm
  30. Saddam Hussein
  31. Norman Schwarzkopf
  32. Clarence Thomas
  33. Exxon Valdez oil spill
  34. North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
  35. Bill Clinton
  36. H. Ross Perot
  37. Newt Gingrich
  38. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
  39. Oklahoma City bombing
  40. Contract with America
  41. Boris Yeltsin
  42. Nelson Mandela
  43. Manuel Noriega
  44. Robert “Bob” Dole
  45. Whitewater scandal
  46. Lewinsky scandal
  47. Columbine high school shooting
  48. Albert Gore
  49. George W. Bush (aka “junior” or "Bush 43")
  50. Richard Cheney
  51. Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs)
  52. World Trade Organization (WTO)
  53. John Kerry
  54. Undocumented immigrants
  55. Green Party
  56. United Farm Workers
  57. Colin Powell
  58. September 11th attacks
  59. Al Qaeda
  60. USA Patriot Act
  61. Department of Homeland Security
  62. Iraq War
  63. No Child Left Behind Act
  64. Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP)
  65. Tea Party movement
  66. ISIS/ISIL
  67. War in Afghanistan
  68. Arab Spring
  69. Nancy Pelosi
  70. Barack Obama
  71. John McCain
  72. Sarah Palin
  73. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009)
  74. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010)
  75. Keystone Pipeline
  76. Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
  77. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act