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- Unit Terms List   

                   


   AP US History Terms List

  1. Elizabeth I                    

  2. James I            

  3. Roanoke                       

  4. Jamestown                    

  5. Virginia Company                     

  6. Restoration Colonies                              

  7. Plymouth Plantation      

  8. proprietary colony

  9. Half-Way covenant      

  10. Bacon’s Rebellion        

  11. Mercantilism    

  12. Navigation Acts           

  13. The Enlightenment

  14. Benjamin Franklin

  15. Olive Branch Petition    

  16. The Great Awakening  

  17. George Whitefield

  18. Albany Congress

  19. “Common Sense”

  20. Coercive Acts  

  21. Declaratory Act

  22. Second Continental Congress    

  23. Tory

  24. Whig (revolutionary era)

  25. George Washington

  26. Treaty of Paris of 1783

  27. Alexander Hamilton

  28. James Madison

  29. Federalist

  30. Republican (late 1700s)

  31. Articles of Confederation

  32. Northwest Ordinance

  33. Shay’s Rebellion

  34. Jay’s Treaty with Britain (1794)

  35. Whiskey Rebellion (1794)

  36. XYZ affair

  37. Alien and Sedition Acts

  38. Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

  39. Marbury v. Madison

  40. John Marshall

  41. Yazoo Claims

  42. Embargo of 1807

  43. Treaty of Ghent

  44. John C. Calhoun

  45. Hartford Convention

  46. McCulloch v. Maryland

  47. Missouri Compromise (1820)

  48. John Quincy Adams

  49. Monroe Doctrine

  50. Worcester v. Georgia

  51. Gibbons v. Ogden

  52. Panic of 1819

  53. Lowell System

  54. “Tariff of Abominations”

  55. Compromise of 1833

  56. Maysville Road

  57. “pet banks”

  58. Daniel Webster

  59. Specie Circular

  60. Second Great Awakening

  61. American Renaissance

  62. Toqueville’s Democracy in America

  63. transcendentalism

  64. Manifest Destiny

  65. Nat Turner’s Rebellion

  66. Whig Party

  67. Democratic Party (of Jackson)

  68. Manifest Destiny

  69. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

  70. Free Soil Party

  71. Republican Party

  72. Popular sovereignty

  73. Seneca Falls Declaration

  74. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  75. Kansas-Nebraska Act

  76. Stephen A. Douglas

  77. Know Nothing Party

  78. Roger B. Taney

  79. Dred Scott decision

  80. John Brown

  81. Antietam

  82. Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction

  83. Gettysburg Address

  84. Homestead Act

  85. Military Reconstruction Act

  86. Freedman’s Bureau

  87. 13th Amendment

  88. 14th Amendment

  89. 15th Amendment

  90. Slaughterhouse Decisions

  91. Compromise of 1877

  92. Turner’s Frontier Thesis

  93. Dawes Act

  94. Credit Mobilier Scandal

  95. Andrew Carnegie

  96. John D. Rockefeller

  97. horizontal integration

  98. Horatio Alger

  99. Sherman Anti-Trust Act

  100. Chinese Exclusion Act

  101. American Federation of Labor

  102. Knights of Labor

  103. Social Darwinism

  104. “old” immigrants

  105. “new” immigrants

  106. “walking” cities

  107. Victorian morality

  108. Cult of Domesticity

  109. Jane Addams

  110. Greenback Party

  111. Populist Party

  112. William Jennings Bryan

  113. Pullman Strike

  114. Eugene V. Debs

  115. Yellow Journalism

  116. Muckrakers

  117. Pure Food and Drug Act

  118. Ida Tarbell

  119. Roosevelt Corollary

  120. Dollar diplomacy

  121. Eugenics

  122. NAACP

  123. Wobblies

  124. Federal Reserve Act of 1913

  125. Schenk v. United States

  126. Pancho Villa

  127. Selective Service Act

  128. War Industries Board

  129. Committee on Public Information

  130. Espionage and Sedition Acts

  131. Fourteen Points

  132. Article X

  133. The Red Scare

  134. Palmer Raids

  135. 19th Amendment

  136. Teapot Dome Scandal

  137. Marcus Garvey

  138. Harlem Renaissance

  139. Sacco & Vanzetti case

  140. Kellogg-Briand Pact

  141. Hawley-Smoot Tariff

  142. Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

  143. Bonus marchers

  144. The 1st hundred days

  145. CCC

  146. FDIC

  147. NRA

  148. Huey Long

  149. John Maynard Keynes

  150. “Okies”

  151. Social Security Act

  152. Neutrality Acts of 1935

  153. Wagner Act

  154. Lend-lease

  155. Office of Price Administration

  156. Korematsu v. U.S. (1944)

  157. Douglas MacArthur

  158. Yalta Conference

  159. containment

  160. Truman Doctrine

  161. Marshall Plan

  162. Taft-Hartley Act

  163. McCarthyism

  164. House Un-American Activities Committee

  165. “new conservatives”

  166. Levittown

  167. National Defense Education Act

  168. The Beats

  169. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

  170. Little Rock “9”

  171. Bay of Pigs

  172. Cuban Missile Crisis

  173. Peace Corps

  174. Civil Rights Act of 1964

  175. Medicare Act of 1965

  176. Immigration Act of 1965

  177. Voting Rights Act of 1965

  178. Vietcong

  179. Ho Chih Minh

  180. Ngo Dinh Diem

  181. The “domino theory”

  182. Tonkin Gulf Resolution

  183. Vietnamization

  184. Southern Christian Leadership Conference

  185. SNCC

  186. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  187. Montgomery Bus Boycotts

  188. Freedom Rides

  189. March on Washington

  190. A. Philip Randolph

  191. Malcolm X

  192. Robert Kennedy

  193. Kent State

  194. Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)

  195. Détente

  196. Saturday Night Massacre

  197. Watergate

  198. Camp David Accords

  199. Roe v. Wade

  200. Reaganomics

 

 

 

 

 


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