Directions: This is the complete list of words that you will need to understand the significance of by the end of the school year. As we progress through the curriculum, refer back to this this for people, terms, and concepts you need to know for each unit. 1. Native Americans’ Belief Systems
2. Age of Discovery 3. “Gold, Glory, and God” 4. The Virginia Company 5. Indentured Servant 6. House of Burgesses 7. Bacon’s Rebellion 8. Mayflower Compact 9. Puritan Theocracy 10. King Philip’s War 11. Navigation Acts 12. Cash crop 13. Middle Passage 14. Salem Witch Trials 15. Benjamin Franklin 16. Great Awakening 17. Treaty of Paris, 1763 18. Proclamation of 1763 19. Stamp Act 20. Sam Adams 21. Patrick Henry 22. Boston Massacre 23. Boston Tea Party 24. First Continental Congress 25. War for Independence 26. Lexington and Concord 27. John Adams 28. Bunker Hill 29. George Washington 30. Thomas Paine 31. Common Sense 32. Thomas Jefferson 33. Richard Henry Lee 34. Social Contract 35. John Locke 36. Declaration of Independence 37. Patriot 38. Loyalist 39. Lafayette 40. Yorktown 41. Treaty of Paris, 1783 42. Republic 43. Articles of Confederation 44. Shays’ Rebellion
45. James Madison 46. Constitutional Convention 47. Great Compromise 48. Three-Fifths Compromise 49. Federalism 50. Delegated Powers 51. Reserved Powers 52. Separation of Powers 53. Legislative Branch 54. Executive Branch 55. Judicial Branch 56. Electoral College 57. Virginia Declaration of Rights 58. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom 59. Ratification 60. Federalists 61. Anti-federalists 62. Bill of Rights 63. Judiciary Act of 1789 64. George Washington (As President) 65. Alexander Hamilton 66. Cabinet 67. National Bank 68. Federalists (After 1789) 69. Democratic-Republicans 70. Two-Party System 71. Whiskey Rebellion 72. Washington’s Farewell Address 73. John Adams (As President) 74. Alien and Sedition Acts 75. Election of 1800 76. Thomas Jefferson (As President) 77. Supreme Court 78. John Marshall 79. Marbury v. Madison 80. Judicial Review 81. Louisiana Purchase 82. Lewis and Clark Expedition 83. Sacajawea 84. Impressment 85. War Hawks 86. War of 1812 87. Industrial Revolution 88. Eli Whitney
89. Cotton Gin 90. Henry Clay 91. American System 92. National Road 93. Erie Canal 94. McCulloch v. Maryland 95. Acquisition of Florida 96. Monroe Doctrine 97. Missouri Compromise 98. Andrew Jackson 99. Spoils System 100. “Trail of Tears” 101. State’s Rights Doctrine 102. Presidential Veto 103. Panic of 1837 104. Abolitionist 105. The Liberator 106. William Lloyd Garrison 107. Frederick Douglass 108. Nat Turner’s Rebellion 109. Slave Codes 110. Seneca Falls Convention 111. Elizabeth Cady Stanton 112. Manifest Destiny 113. Settlement of Texas 114. The Alamo 115. Mexican-American War 116. California Gold Rush 117. Compromise of 1850 118. Fugitive Slave Act 119. Popular Sovereignty 120. Secession 121. Underground Railroad 122. Harriet Beecher Stowe 123. Uncle Tom’s Cabin 124. Kansas-Nebraska Act 125. Bleeding Kansas 126. Republican Party 127. Dred Scott v. Sanford 128. Lincoln-Douglas Debates 129. Harper’s Ferry 130. Election of 1860 131. Confederate States of America 132. Abraham Lincoln 133. Civil War 134. Fort Sumter 135. Ulysses S. Grant 136. Robert E. Lee 137. Antietam 138. Emancipation Proclamation 139. Gettysburg 140. Gettysburg Address
Appomattox 13th Amendment Lincoln’s Assassination Andrew Johnson Reconstruction Radical Republicans Freedman’s Bureau 14th Amendment Impeachment of Johnson 15th Amendment Scalawags Carpetbaggers Ku Klux Klan Compromise of 1877 Great Plains Assimilation Homestead Act Transcontinental Railroad Henry Bessemer Thomas Edison Alexander Graham Bell Interstate Commerce Act Cornelius Vanderbilt Andrew Carnegie Monopoly J.P. Morgan John D. Rockefeller Sherman Anti-Trust Act Knights of Labor Samuel Gompers American Federation of Labor Eugene V. Debs American Railway Union Haymarket Riot Homestead Strike Pullman Strike Industrial Ladies Garment Union Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire New Immigrants Ellis Island Melting Pot Nativism Chinese Exclusion Act Wright Brothers Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois Lynching Ida B. Wells Jim Crow Laws Plessy v. Ferguson “Separate but Equal” Prohibition
Muckrakers Henry Ford 17th Amendment Susan B. Anthony Suffrage Upton Sinclair Theodore Roosevelt Meat Inspection Act NAACP Progressives Woodrow Wilson Clayton Anti-Trust Act 16th Amendment Federal Reserve Act 19th Amendment Imperialism Annexation of Hawaii Spanish-American War Philippine Insurrection Open Door Notes Panama Canal Roosevelt Corollary Dollar Diplomacy World War I Fourteen Points Social Security Act Totalitarian Government Stalin Mussolini Hitler Nazi Party Neutrality Acts Winston Churchill Invasion of Poland Blitzkrieg World War II Battle of Britain Holocaust Anti-Semitism Genocide Auschwitz Axis Powers Lend-Lease Act Allied Powers (WWII) Tojo Pearl Harbor Manhattan Project Stalingrad Dwight Eisenhower El Alamein Tuskegee Airmen Nisei
League of Nations Treaty of Versailles Reparations War Guilt Clause Communism Red Scare Sacco and Vanzetti Quota System Scopes Monkey Trial Roaring Twenties Langston Hughes Harlem Renaissance Black Tuesday Great Depression Hawley-Smoot Tariff Dust Bowl Herbert Hoover Hoovervilles FDR New Deal FDIC Securities and Exchange Commission AAA CCC WPA D-Day Harry Truman Navajo Windtalkers Douglas MacArthur Bataan Death March Geneva Convention Battle of Midway Island Hopping Kamikaze Iwo Jima Okinawa Hiroshima Nagasaki Nuremberg Trials “Rosie the Riveter” Japanese Internment United Nations Containment Iron Curtain Cold War Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan Berlin Airlift NATO 38th Parallel Korean War Alger Hiss
Rosenberg Trial Joseph McCarthy McCarthyism Warsaw Pact Jonas Salk John F. Kennedy Fidel Castro Bay of Pigs Nikita Khrushchev Cuban Missile Crisis Berlin Wall Lyndon B. Johnson Brown v. Board of Education Thurgood Marshall Little Rock Desegregation Martin Luther King, Jr. Montgomery Bus Boycott Civil Disobedience “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” “I have a dream” speech Civil Rights Act of 1964 The Selma Campaign Freedom Riders 24th Amendment Voting Rights Act of 1965 Malcolm X Massive Resistance Vietnam War
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Ho Chi Minh Domino Theory Doves Hawks Tet Offensive Vietnamization Kent State Roe v. Wade Neil Armstrong Nixon in China Watergate Ronald Reagan Sandra Day O’Connor Mikhail Gorbachev Glasnost Perestroika Collapse of the USSR Fall of the Berlin Wall Sally Ride Operation Desert Storm Bill Clinton Bush v. Gore George W. Bush 9/11 Attacks Patriot Act Homeland Security
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