US History

Missouri Compromise

Fugitive Slave Act

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Republican Party

Dred Scott Decision

Abraham Lincoln

Jefferson Davis

Emancipation Proclamation

Gettysburg

Vicksburg

Appomattox

Reconstruction

13th Amendment

Freedman's Bureau

Andrew Johnson

Radical Republicans

Black Codes

Congressional Reconstruction

Civil Rights Act

14th Amendment

Due Process

Equal Protection

15th Amendment

Impeachment

Carpetbagger

Scalawag

New South

Sharecropping

Ku Klux Klan

Poll Taxes

Solid South

Jim Crow Laws

Segregation

Plessy v Ferguson

Frontier

Great Plains

Transcontinental Railroad

Indian Wars

Reservation

Wounded Knee

Homestead Act

Dawes Severalty Act

Market Economy

Capitalism

Innovation

Second Industrial Revolution

George Pullman

Bessemer Process

Samuel Morse

Telegraph

Alexander Graham Bell

Thomas Edison

Corporation

Stock

Entrepreneur

A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.

Andrew Carnegie

John D. Rockefeller

J.P. Morgan

Vertical Integration

Horizontal Integration

Monopoly

Sherman Antitrust Act

Labor Union

Strike

Lockout

Knights of Labor

American Federation of Labor

Samuel Gompers

Haymarket Riot

Homestead Strike

Pullman Strike

Ideology

A system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.

Capitalism

Social Darwinism

Communism

Socialism

Anarchism

Urbanization

Tenement

Political Machine

Tammany Hall

Boss Tweed

New Immigrants

Angel Island

Ghetto

Americanization

Chinese Exclusion Act

Gentlemen's Agreement

Nativism

Sherman Silver Purchase Act

Munn v. Illinois

Wabash v. Illinois

Interstate Commerce Act

Populist Party

Omaha Platform

William Jennings Bryan

Progressives

Social Gospel Movement

Salvation Army

Temperance Movement

Consumers

A person who purchases goods and services for personal use.

Muckrakers

Ida Tarbell

Upton Sinclair

Jacob Riis

Settlement House

Jane Addams

Robert La Follette

Initiative

Referendum

Recall

Direct Primary

17th Amendment

Child Labor

Susan B. Anthony

Alice Paul

Theodore Roosevelt

Government Regulation

Square Deal

Meat Inspection Act

Pure Food and Drug Act

William Howard Taft

16th Amendment

Woodrow Wilson

Federal Reserve Act

Clayton Antitrust Act

Federal Trade Commission

Spanish-American War

Cuba

Ostend Manifesto

Yellow Journalism

Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers

William Randolph Hearst

De Lome letter

Rough Riders

Philippines

Imperialism

A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

White Man's Burden

Anti-Imperialist League

Mark Twain

Puerto Rico

Teller Amendment

Platt Amendment

Hawaii

Queen Liliuokalani

Spheres of Influence

A country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority.

Open Door" Policy

Treaty of Portsmouth

Panama Canal

Yellow Fever

Monroe Doctrine

Roosevelt Corollary

Alliance System

Militarism

Nationalism

Archduke Francis Ferdinand

Serbia

Allied Powers

The victorious allied nations of World War I and World War II. In World War I, the Allies included Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and the United States. In World War II, the Allies included Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States.

Central Powers

Trench Warfare

Airplanes

Lusitania

Mobilization

Conscription

American Expeditionary Force

American force of 14,500 that landed in France in June 1917 under the command of General John Pershing. Both women and blacks served during the war, mostly under white officers

Selective Service Act

War Industries Board

Herbert Hoover

War Bonds

Espionage Act

Sedition Act

Eugene Debs

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Great Migration

Fourteen points

Treaty of Versailles

Roaring Twenties

Disarmament

Palmer Raids

J. Edgar Hoover

Sacco and Vanzetti

Warren G. Harding

Nativism

Quota system

National Origins Act

Dawes Plan

League of Nations

Washington Naval Conference

Assembly line

Consumerism

18th Amendment

Volstead Act

Prohibition

19th Amendment

Flappers

Great Migration

Booker T. Washington

Marcus Garvey

Harlem Renaissance

Universal Negro Improvement Association

NAACP

Ku Klux Klan

Bull Market

Black Tuesday

Herbert Hoover

Great Depression

Gross National Product (GNP)

Dust Bowl

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fireside chats

New Deal

Bank Holiday

National Recovery Administration (NRA)

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

National Labor Relations Act

Sit-down strike

Court-Packing Plan

Fascism

Nazism

Benito Mussolini

Adolf Hitler

Spanish Civil War

Appeasement

Blitzkrieg

Neutrality Acts

Quarantine Speech

Lend-Lease Act

Atlantic Charter

Pearl Harbor

Stalingrad

D-Day

Battle of the Bulge

V-E Day

Coral Sea

Midway

Hiroshima

Nagasaki

V-J Day

Japanese-American Internment

Double V Campaign

A. Philip Randolph

Holocaust

Final Solution

Ghetto

Auschwitz

Nuremburg Trials

Tehran Conference

United Nations

San Francisco Conference

Security Council

General Assembly

Joseph Stalin

Dumbarton Oaks Conference

Yalta Conference

Cold War

Iron Curtain

Containment

Berlin Airlift

Year-long mission of flying food and supplies to blockaded West Berliners, whom the Soviet Union cut off from access to the West in the first major crisis of the Cold War.

Berlin Wall

Cuban Missile Crisis

Fidel Castro

John F. Kennedy

Korean War

Nikita Khrushchev

Warsaw Pact

Alliance for Progress

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Truman Doctrine

Harry S. Truman

The 33rd U.S. president, who succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt upon Roosevelt's death in April 1945. Truman, who led the country through the last few months of World War II, is best known for making the controversial decision to use two atomic bombs against

Potsdam Conference

Berlin Blockade

Arms Race

General Douglas MacArthur

Dwight Eisenhower

Eisenhower Doctrine

Baby Boomers

Interstate Highway System

NAACP

National Urban League

Brown v Board of Education

Segregation

Thurgood Marshall

Integration

Rosa Parks

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964)

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Social Activism

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Freedom Riders

March on Washington (1963)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Affirmative Action

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

Black Power

Black Panthers

Nation of Islam

Malcolm X

John F. Kennedy

Lyndon B Johnson

War on Poverty

Project Head Start

Medicare

Medicaid

Warren Court

Vietnam War

Indochina

Ho Chi Minh

Geneva Accords

Vietcong

Domino Theory

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Tet offensive

Richard M. Nixon

Vietnamization

Cambodia

Media

War Powers Act

Betty Friedan

Equal Rights Amendment

D�tente

Watergate Scandal

Apartheid

Jimmy Carter

Panama Canal Treaty

Camp David Accords

Iranian Revolution

Iran Hostage Crisis

The 444 days in which American embassy workers were held captive by Iranian revolutionaries after young Muslim fundamentalists overthrew the oppressive regime of the American-backed shah, forcing him into exile. These revolutionaries triggered an energy c

Ronald Reagan

Reagan Doctrine

Mikhail Gorbachev

Glasnost

George H.W. Bush

Bill Clinton

World Trade Organization (WTO)

George W. Bush

Terrorism

Jihad

Iraq War

Barack Obama

Globalization

Cesar Chavez

United Farm Workers (UFW)

American Indian Movement (AIM)

26th Amendment

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Affirmative Action

Mapp v. Ohio (1961)

Miranda v Arizona (1966)

Roe v Wade (1973)

Refugee

Terrorism

USA Patriot Act

Climate Change

Missouri Compromise

Fugitive Slave Act

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Republican Party

Dred Scott Decision

Abraham Lincoln

Jefferson Davis

Emancipation Proclamation

Gettysburg

Vicksburg

Appomattox

Reconstruction

13th Amendment

Freedman's Bureau

Andrew Johnson

Radical Republicans

Black Codes

Congressional Reconstruction

Civil Rights Act

14th Amendment

Due Process

Equal Protection

15th Amendment

Impeachment

Carpetbagger

Scalawag

New South

Sharecropping

Ku Klux Klan

Poll Taxes

Solid South

Jim Crow Laws

Segregation

Plessy v Ferguson

Frontier

Great Plains

Transcontinental Railroad

Indian Wars

Reservation

Wounded Knee

Homestead Act

Dawes Severalty Act

Market Economy

Capitalism

Innovation

Second Industrial Revolution

George Pullman

Bessemer Process

Samuel Morse

Telegraph

Alexander Graham Bell

Thomas Edison

Corporation

Stock

Entrepreneur

A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.

Andrew Carnegie

John D. Rockefeller

J.P. Morgan

Vertical Integration

Horizontal Integration

Monopoly

Sherman Antitrust Act

Labor Union

Strike

Lockout

Knights of Labor

American Federation of Labor

Samuel Gompers

Haymarket Riot

Homestead Strike

Pullman Strike

Ideology

A system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.

Capitalism

Social Darwinism

Communism

Socialism

Anarchism

Urbanization

Tenement

Political Machine

Tammany Hall

Boss Tweed

New Immigrants

Angel Island

Ghetto

Americanization

Chinese Exclusion Act

Gentlemen's Agreement

Nativism

Sherman Silver Purchase Act

Munn v. Illinois

Wabash v. Illinois

Interstate Commerce Act

Populist Party

Omaha Platform

William Jennings Bryan

Progressives

Social Gospel Movement

Salvation Army

Temperance Movement

Consumers

A person who purchases goods and services for personal use.

Muckrakers

Ida Tarbell

Upton Sinclair

Jacob Riis

Settlement House

Jane Addams

Robert La Follette

Initiative

Referendum

Recall

Direct Primary

17th Amendment

Child Labor

Susan B. Anthony

Alice Paul

Theodore Roosevelt

Government Regulation

Square Deal

Meat Inspection Act

Pure Food and Drug Act

William Howard Taft

16th Amendment

Woodrow Wilson

Federal Reserve Act

Clayton Antitrust Act

Federal Trade Commission

Spanish-American War

Cuba

Ostend Manifesto

Yellow Journalism

Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers

William Randolph Hearst

De Lome letter

Rough Riders

Philippines

Imperialism

A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

White Man's Burden

Anti-Imperialist League

Mark Twain

Puerto Rico

Teller Amendment

Platt Amendment

Hawaii

Queen Liliuokalani

Spheres of Influence

A country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority.

Open Door" Policy

Treaty of Portsmouth

Panama Canal

Yellow Fever

Monroe Doctrine

Roosevelt Corollary

Alliance System

Militarism

Nationalism

Archduke Francis Ferdinand

Serbia

Allied Powers

The victorious allied nations of World War I and World War II. In World War I, the Allies included Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and the United States. In World War II, the Allies included Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States.

Central Powers

Trench Warfare

Airplanes

Lusitania

Mobilization

Conscription

American Expeditionary Force

American force of 14,500 that landed in France in June 1917 under the command of General John Pershing. Both women and blacks served during the war, mostly under white officers

Selective Service Act

War Industries Board

Herbert Hoover

War Bonds

Espionage Act

Sedition Act

Eugene Debs

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Great Migration

Fourteen points

Treaty of Versailles

Roaring Twenties

Disarmament

Palmer Raids

J. Edgar Hoover

Sacco and Vanzetti

Warren G. Harding

Nativism

Quota system

National Origins Act

Dawes Plan

League of Nations

Washington Naval Conference

Assembly line

Consumerism

18th Amendment

Volstead Act

Prohibition

19th Amendment

Flappers

Great Migration

Booker T. Washington

Marcus Garvey

Harlem Renaissance

Universal Negro Improvement Association

NAACP

Ku Klux Klan

Bull Market

Black Tuesday

Herbert Hoover

Great Depression

Gross National Product (GNP)

Dust Bowl

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fireside chats

New Deal

Bank Holiday

National Recovery Administration (NRA)

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

National Labor Relations Act

Sit-down strike

Court-Packing Plan

Fascism

Nazism

Benito Mussolini

Adolf Hitler

Spanish Civil War

Appeasement

Blitzkrieg

Neutrality Acts

Quarantine Speech

Lend-Lease Act

Atlantic Charter

Pearl Harbor

Stalingrad

D-Day

Battle of the Bulge

V-E Day

Coral Sea

Midway

Hiroshima

Nagasaki

V-J Day

Japanese-American Internment

Double V Campaign

A. Philip Randolph

Holocaust

Final Solution

Ghetto

Auschwitz

Nuremburg Trials

Tehran Conference

United Nations

San Francisco Conference

Security Council

General Assembly

Joseph Stalin

Dumbarton Oaks Conference

Yalta Conference

Cold War

Iron Curtain

Containment

Berlin Airlift

Year-long mission of flying food and supplies to blockaded West Berliners, whom the Soviet Union cut off from access to the West in the first major crisis of the Cold War.

Berlin Wall

Cuban Missile Crisis

Fidel Castro

John F. Kennedy

Korean War

Nikita Khrushchev

Warsaw Pact

Alliance for Progress

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Truman Doctrine

Harry S. Truman

The 33rd U.S. president, who succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt upon Roosevelt's death in April 1945. Truman, who led the country through the last few months of World War II, is best known for making the controversial decision to use two atomic bombs against

Potsdam Conference

Berlin Blockade

Arms Race

General Douglas MacArthur

Dwight Eisenhower

Eisenhower Doctrine

Baby Boomers

Interstate Highway System

NAACP

National Urban League

Brown v Board of Education

Segregation

Thurgood Marshall

Integration

Rosa Parks

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964)

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Social Activism

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Freedom Riders

March on Washington (1963)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Affirmative Action

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

Black Power

Black Panthers

Nation of Islam

Malcolm X

John F. Kennedy

Lyndon B Johnson

War on Poverty

Project Head Start

Medicare

Medicaid

Warren Court

Vietnam War

Indochina

Ho Chi Minh

Geneva Accords

Vietcong

Domino Theory

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Tet offensive

Richard M. Nixon

Vietnamization

Cambodia

Media

War Powers Act

Betty Friedan

Equal Rights Amendment

D�tente

Watergate Scandal

Apartheid

Jimmy Carter

Panama Canal Treaty

Camp David Accords

Iranian Revolution

Iran Hostage Crisis

The 444 days in which American embassy workers were held captive by Iranian revolutionaries after young Muslim fundamentalists overthrew the oppressive regime of the American-backed shah, forcing him into exile. These revolutionaries triggered an energy c

Ronald Reagan

Reagan Doctrine

Mikhail Gorbachev

Glasnost

George H.W. Bush

Bill Clinton

World Trade Organization (WTO)

George W. Bush

Terrorism

Jihad

Iraq War

Barack Obama

Globalization

Cesar Chavez

United Farm Workers (UFW)

American Indian Movement (AIM)

26th Amendment

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Affirmative Action

Mapp v. Ohio (1961)

Miranda v Arizona (1966)

Roe v Wade (1973)

Refugee

Terrorism

USA Patriot Act

Climate Change