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