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US History Guiding Questions & Vocabulary
Time Period 1 1491 - 1607
Overall Question: To what extent did Native Americans, Europeans and colonists benefit or not
benefit from colonization?
Identity: How did the identities of colonizing and indigenous American societies change as a result
of contact in the Americas? (Activity 1) (Readings in Primary Sources, Chapter 1 in Zinn, AP Book
16-25)
Work, Exchange & Technology: How did the Columbian Exchange—the mutual transfer of material
goods, commodities, animals, and diseases—affect interaction between Europeans and natives and
among indigenous peoples in North America? (Pages 15-16 in AP Book
Peopling: Where did different groups settle in the Americas (before contact) and how and why
did they move to and within the Americas (after contact)? (Before Contact Reading: AP Book
Pages 4-13
Politics & Power: How did Spain’s early entry into colonization in the Caribbean, Mexico, and
South America shape European and American developments in this period (AP Book 16-24)
America in the World: How did European attempts to dominate the Americas shape relations
between Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans? (Lowenthal Chapter 2 needs to be cut down 2
pages per kid so need 12 kids)
Environment and Geography: How did pre-contact populations of North America relate to their
environments? How did contact with Europeans and Africans change these relations in North
America? (Lowenthal - Chapter 2)
Ideas, Belief & Culture: How did cultural contact challenge the religious and other values systems
of peoples from the Americas, Africa, and Europe?
Vocabulary: Chapter 1. Canadian Shield, Incas, Aztecs, nation-states, Cahokia, three-sister
farming, middlemen, caravel, plantation, Columbian Exchange, Treaty of Tordesillas,
conquistadors, capitalism, encomienda, noche triste, mesitzos. Battle of Acoma, Pope’s Rebellion,
Black Rebellion, Ferdinand of Aragon, Isabella of Castile, Christopher Columbus, Francisco
Coronado, Francisco Pizarro, Bartolome de Las Casas, Hernan Cortes, Malinche (Dona Marina),
Moctezuma, Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot), Robert De La Salle, Father Junipero Serra
Chapter 2: Protestant Reformation, Roanoke Island, Spanish Armada (1588), primogeniture, jointstock company, charter,
AP Outline: pueblo, Chinook, Algonquin, smallpox, Zambo, sextant, Juan de Sepulveda, spanish
mission system, Juan de Onate, maroon communities in Brazil and the Caribbean, mixing of
Christianity and traditional African religions
Period 2 (1607-1754):
1. Guiding Question: How did the colonial period help to shape America’s five founding
ideals?
a. Identity: What were the chief similarities and differences among the development of
English, Spanish, Dutch, and French colonies in America?
b. Work, Exchange & Technology: How did distinct economic systems, most notably a
slavery system based on African labor, develop in British North America? What was their
effect on emerging cultural and regional differences? (Chapter 4 – Section 2)
c. Peopling: Why did various colonists go to the New World? How did the increasing
integration of the Atlantic world affect the movement of peoples between its
different regions?
d. Politics & Power: In what ways did the British government seek to exert control over its
American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries?
e. America in the World: How did the competition between European empires around
the world affect relations among the various peoples in North America?
f. Environment & Geography: How and why did the English North American colonies
develop into distinct regions?
g. Ideas Beliefs & Culture: How did the expansion of cultural contact that took place
with permanent colonization alter conditions in North America and affect
intellectual and religious life, the growth of trade, and the shape of political
institutions?
Vocabluary: Chapter 2: Jamestown (1607), First Anglo Powhatan War (1614), Second AngloPowhatan War (1644), Act of Toleration (1649), Barbados slave code (1661), squatters, Tuscarora
War (1711), Yamasee Indians (1715-1716), buffer, Iroquois Confederacy
Chapter 3: Calvinism, predestination, conversion, Puritans, Separatists, Mayflower Compact,
Massachusetts Bay Colony, Great Migration, antinomianism, Fundamental Orders, Pequot War, King
Philip’s War, English Civil War, Dominion of New England, Navigation Laws (Acts), Glorious
(Bloodless) Revolution, salutary neglect, patroonship, blue laws, Martin Luther, John Calvin,
William Bradford, John Calvin, William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams,
Massasoit, Metacom (King Philip), Charles II, Sir Edmund Andros, William III, Mary II, Henry Hudson,
Peter Stuyvesant, Duke of York, William Penn
Chapter 4: indentured servants, headright system, Bacon’s Rebellion, Royal African Company,
middle passage, New York slave revolt, South Carolina slave revolt (Stono River), Congregational
Church, jeremiad, Half Way Covenant, Salem Witch trials, Leisler’s Rebellion, William Berkeley,
Nathaniel Bacon, Anthony Johnson (1560–1609), Great Awakening (1730-1750), old lights, new
lights(1730-50), Poor Richard’s Almanack (1732 to 1758), Zenger Trial (1733), royal colonies,
proprietary colonies, Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, Jacobus Arminius, Johnathan Edwards,
Geroge Whitefield
From AP Outline: Beaver Wars, Chicksaw Wars, Wool Act, Molassess Act, smuggling,
republicanism, (Catawba nation, population collapse and dispersal of Huron Conferacy,
religious conversation among Wampanoag in New England leading to outbreak of King Phillip’s
War), republicanism
Period 3 (1754-1800):
a.
Identity: How did different social group identities evolve during the revolutionary struggle?
How did leaders of the new United States attempt to form a national identity?
b. Work, Exchange & Technology: How did the newly independent United States attempt to
formulate a national economy?
c. Peopling: How did the revolutionary struggle and its aftermath reorient whiteAmerican Indian relations and affect subsequent population movements?
d. Politics & Power: How did the ideology behind the revolution affect power relationships
between different ethnic, racial, and social groups?
e. America in the World: How did the revolution become an international conflict
involving competing European and American powers?
f. Environment & Geography: How did the geographical and environmental characteristics
of regions opened up to white settlement after 1763 affect their subsequent
development?
g. Ideas, Beliefs & Culture: Why did the patriot cause spread so quickly among the
colonists after 1763? How did the republican ideals of the revolutionary cause affect the
nation’s political culture after independence?
Vocabulary: Chapter 5: Paxton Boys (1764), Regulator movement(1768), triangular trade (1770),
John Trambull, John Singleton Coplay, Phyllis Wheatley
Chapter 6: Huguenots, Edict of Nantes (1598), coureurs de bois, voyageurs, King William’s War
(1689), Queen Anne’s War (1702), War of Jenkin’s Ear (1739), King George’s War (1744), Acadians,
French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War), Albany Congress, regulars, Battle of Quebec,
Pontiac’s uprising, Proclamation of 1763
Chapter 7: republicanism, radical Whigs, mercantilism, Sugar Act, Quartering Act, stamp tax
(Stamp Act), admiralty courts, Stamp Act Congress, nonimportation agreements, Sons of Liberty,
Declaratory Acts, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre, committee of correspondence, Boston Tea
Party, Intolerable Acts, Quebec Act, First Continental Congress, The Association, Battles of
Lexington and Concord, Valley Forge, John Hancock, George Grancille, Charles Townshend, Crispus
Attucks, George III, Lord North, Samuel Adams, Thomas Hutchinson, Marquis de Lafeyette, Baron
von Steuben, Lord Dunmore
Chapter 8: Second Continental Congress, Battle of Bunker Hill, Olive Branch Petition, Hessians,
Common Sense, Declaration of Independence, Declaration of the Rights of Man, Loyalists, Patriots,
Battle of Long Island, Battle of Saratoga, Model Treaty, Armed Neutrality, Treaty of Fort Stanwix,
privateers, Battle of Yorktown, Treaty of Paris, Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, Richard Montgomery,
Thomas Paine, Richard Henry Lee, Lord Charles Cornwallis, William Howe, John “Gentleman
Johnny” Burgoyne, Benjamin Franklin, Comte de Rochambeau, Nathanael Greene, Joseph Brant,
George Rogers Clark, Admiral de Grasse
Chapter 9: Society of Cincinnati, disestablished, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, civic
virtue, Articles of Confederation, Old Northwest, Land Ordinance of 1785, Northwest Ordinance,
Shay’s Rebellion, Viriginia Plan, New Jersey Plan, Great Compromise, common law, civil law,
three-fifths compromise, antifederalists, federalists, The Federalist
Chapter 10: Bill of Rights, Judiciary Act of 1789, funding at par, assumption, tariff, excise tax,
Bank of the United States, Whiskey Rebellion, Reign of Terror, Neutrality Proclamation, Battle of
Fallen Timbers, Treaty of Greenville, Jay’s Treaty, Pinckney’s Treaty, Farewell Address, XYZ
Affair, Convention of 1800, Alien Laws, Sedition Act, Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, George
Washingon, Alexander Hamilton, Louis XVI, Edmond Genet, Little Turtle, “Mad Anthony” Wayne,
John Jay, John Adams, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Chapter 14: Eli Whitney, cotton gin,
AP Outline: Chief Little Turtle and the Western Confederacy, Mercy Otis Warren, Letters from
a Farmer in Pennsylvania, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Abigail Adams,
Pennsylvania Gradual Emancipation Law, corridos, vaqueros,
Period 4 (1800-1848)
a.
Identity: How did debates over American democratic culture and the proximity of
many different cultures living in close contact affect changing definitions of national
identity?
b.
Work, Exchange & Technology: How did the growth of mass manufacturing in the
rapidly urbanizing North affect definitions of and relationships between workers, and those
for whom they worked? How did the continuing dominance of agriculture and the slave
system affect southern social, political, and economic life?
c.
Peopling: How did the continued movement of individuals and groups into, out of,
and within the United States shape the development of new communities and the
evolution of old communities?
d.
Politics & Power: How did the growth of ideals of mass democracy, including such
concerns as expanding suffrage, public education, abolitionism, and care for the needy
affect political life and discourse?
e.
America in the World: How did the United States use diplomatic and economic
means to project its power in the western hemisphere? How did foreign governments
and individuals describe and react to the new American nation?
f.
Environment & Geography: How did environmental and geographic factors affect the
development of sectional economics and identities??
g.
Ideas, Belief & Culture: How did the idea of democratization shape and reflect
American arts, literature, ideals, and culture?
Vocabulary: Chapter 11: Revolution of 1800, patronage, Judiciary Act of 1801, midnight judges,
Marbury v. Madison, Tripolitan War, Louisiana Purchase, Corps of Discovery, Orders in Council,
impressment, Cheseapeake affair, Embargo Act, Non Intercourse Act, Marcon’s Bill No. 2, war
hawks, Battle of Tippercanoe, Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemmings, Albert Gallatin, John Marshall,
Samuel Chase, Napoleon Bonaparte, Robert R. Livingstone, Toussaint L’Ouverture, Meriwether
Lewis, William Clark, Aaron Burr, James Madison, Tecuseh, Tenskwatawa “the Prophet”)
Chapter 12: War of 1812, Battle of New Orleans, Congress of Vienna, Treaty of Ghent, Hartford
Convention, Rush-Bagot Agreement, Tariff of 1816, American System, Era of Good Feelings, Panic
of 1819, Land Act of 1820, Tallmadge amendment, peculiar institution, Missouri Compromise,
McCulloch vs. Maryland, loose construction, Cohens vs. Viriginia, Gibbons vs. Ogden, Fletcher vs.
Peck, Dartmouth College vs. Woodward, Anglo-American Convention, Florida Purchase Treaty
(Adams Onis Treaty), Monroe Doctrine, Russo-American Treaty
Chapter 13: corrupt bargin, spoils system, Tariff of Abominations, Nullification Crisis, Compromise
Tariff of 1833, Force Bill, Indian Removal Act, Trail of Tears, Black Hawk War, Bank War, AntiMasonic Party, pet banks, Specie Circular, Panic of 1837, Alamo, Goliad, Battle of San Jacinto,
John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Denmark Vesey, John C. Calhoun, Black Hawk, Nicholas
Biddle, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Martin Van Buren, Stephen Austin, San Houston, Santa Anna,
William Henry Harrison
Chapter 14: “Self-Reliance”, rendevous, ecological imperialism, Ancient Order of Hibernians,
Molly Maguires, Tammany Hall, Know Nothing Party, Awful Disclosures, Patent Office, limited
liability, Commonwealth vs. Hunt, cult of domesticity, McCormick reaper, turnpike, Eric Canal,
clipper ships, Pony Express, transportation revolution, market revolution, Samuel Slater, Elias
Howe, Isaac Singer, John Deere, Cyrus McCormick, Robert Fulton, DeWitt Clinton, Cyrus Field, John
Jacob Astor
Period 5 (1844-1877):
a.
Identity: How did migration to the United States change popular ideas of American
Identity and citizenship as well as regional and racial identities? How did the conflicts that
led to the Civil War change popular ideas about national, regional, and racial identities
throughout this period?
b.
Work, Exchange & Technology: How did the maturing of northern manufacturing and
the adherence of the South to an agricultural economy change the national economic system
by 1877?
c.
Peopling: How did the growth of mass migration to the United States and the
railroad affect settlement patterns in cities and the West?
d.
Politics & Power: Why did attempts at compromise before the war fail to prevent
the conflict? To what extent, and in what ways, did the Civil War and Reconstruction
transform American political and social relationships?
e.
America in the World: How was the American conflict over slavery part of larger
global events?
f.
Environment & Geography: How did the end of slavery and technological and
military developments transform the environment and settlement patterns in the South
and the West?
g.
Ideas, Beliefs & Culture: How did the doctrine of Manifest Destiny affect debates
over territorial expansionism and the Mexican War? How did the Civil War struggle shape
Americans’ beliefs about equality, democracy, and national destiny??
Vocabulary: Chapter 14: Samuel F.B. Morse,
Chapter 15: The Age of Reason, Deism, Unitarian, Second Great Awakening, Burned-Over
District, Mormons, lyceum, American Temperance Society, Maine Law of 1851, Woman’s Rights
Convention at Seneca Falls, New Harmony, Brook Farm, Oneilda Community, Shakers, Hudson
River School, minstrel shows, transcendentalism, “The American Scholar,” Peter Cartwright,
Charles Grandison Finney, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Horace Mann, Dorothea Dix, Neal S. Dow,
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Amelia Bloomer, Robert
Owen, John J. Audubon, Sephen Foster, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry
David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Francis Parkman
Chapter 17 (I put this chapter BEFORE Chapter 16 because it helps to see how the expansion of
new territory brought on the Civil War): Tariff of 1842, Caroline, Creole, Aroostock War,
Manifest Destiny, “Fifty-four forty or fight, Liberty Party, Walker Tariff, spot resolutions,
California Bear Flag Republic, Battle of Buena Vista, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Conscience
Whigs, Wilmot Proviso, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Stephen W. Kearny, John C. Fremont, Winfield
Scott, Nicholas P. Trist, David Wilmot
Chapter 16: West Africa Squadron, breakers, black belt, responsorial, Nat Turner’s rebellion,
Amistad, American Colonialization Society, Liberia, The Liberator, American Anti-slavery Society,
Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, MasonDixon Line, Gag Resolution, William T. Johnson, Nat Turner, William Witherforce, Theodore Dwight
Weld, William Lloyd Garrison, David Walker, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany, Fredrick Douglass
Chapter 18: popular sovereignty, Free Soil Party, California Gold Rush, Underground Railroad,
Seventh of March speech, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Law, Clayton Bulwar Treaty, Ostend
Manifesto, Opium War, Treaty of Wanghia, Treaty of Kanagawa, Gadsden Purchase, Kansas
Nebraska Act, Lewis Case, Zackary Taylor, Harriet Tubman, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce,
William Walker, Caleb Cushing, Matthew C. Perry
Chapter 19: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Impending Crisis of the South, New England Emigrant Aid
Company, Lecompton Constitution, Bleeding Kansas, Dredd Scott v. Stanford, Panic of 1857, Tariff
of 1857, Lincoln-Douglas debates, Freeport question, Freeport Doctrine, Harpers Ferry,
Constitutional Union party, Confederate States of America, Crittenden amendments, Harriet
Beecher Stowe, James Buchanan, Charles Sumner, Preston S. Brooks, Dred Scott, Roger B. Taney,
Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, John C. Breckinridge, John Jordan Crittenden
Chapter 20: Fort Sumter, Boarder States, West Virginia, Trent affair, Alabama, Laird rams,
Dominion of Canada, writ of habeas corpus, New York Draft Riots, Murrill Tarriff Act, U.S. Sanitary
Commission, Charles Francis Adams, Napoleon III, Maximilian, Jefferson Davis, Elizabeth Blackwell,
Clara Barton, Sally Tompkins
Chapter 21: Battle of Bull Run, Peninsula Campaign, Merrimack, Monitor, Second Battle of Bull
Run, Battle of Antietam, Emancipation Proclamation, Thirteenth Amendment, Battle of
Fredericksburg, Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address, Battle of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson,
Battle of Shiloh, Siege of Vicksburg, Sherman’s March, Congressional Committee on the Conduct of
the War, Copperheads, The Man without a Country, Union Party, Wilderness Campaign, Appomattox
Courthouse, Reform Bill of 1867
Chapter 22: Freedman’s Buraeu, “10 Percent” Reconstruction Act, Fifteenth Amendment, Ex
parte Milligan, Redeemers, Woman’s Loyal League, Union League, salawags, carpetbaggers, Ku
Klux Klan, Force Acts, Tenure of Office Act, Seward’s Folly, Oliver Howard, Andrew Johnson,
Thaddeus Stevens, Hariam Revels, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin Wade, William Seward,
Period 6 (1877-1898):
a.
Identity: How did the rapid influx of immigrants from other parts of the world than
northern and western Europe affect debates about American national identity
b.
Work, Exchange & Technology: How did technological and corporate innovations help
to vastly increase industrial production? What was the impact of these innovations on the
lives of working people?
c.
Peopling: How and why did the sources of migration to the United States change
dramatically during this period?
d.
Politics & Power: How did the political culture of the Gilded Age reflect the
emergence of new corporate power? How successful were the challenges to this power? Why
did challenges to this power fail?
e.
America in the World: How did the search for new global markets affect American
foreign policy and territorial ambitions?
f.
Environment & Geography: In what ways, and to what extent, was the West
“opened” for further settlement through connection to eastern political, financial, and
transportation systems?
g.
Ideas, Belief & Culture: How did artistic and intellectual movements both reflect
and challenge the emerging corporate order??
Vocabulary: Chapter 23: “waving the bloody shirt”, Tweed Ring, Credit Mobilier Scandal, Panic of
1873, Gilded Age, patronage, Compromise of 1877, Civil Rights Act of 1875, sharecropping, Jim
Crow, Plessy vs. Ferguson, Chinese Exclusion Act, Pendleton Act, Homestead Strike,
grandfather clause, Jay Gould, Horace Greenley, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester
Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Thomas R. Reed, Tom Watson, Williams Jennings Bryan, J.P. Morgan
Chapter 24: Wabash, St. Lewis, and Pacific Railroad Company vs. Illinois, Interstate Commerce
Act, vertical integration, horizontal integration, trust, interlocking directorates, Standard Oil
Company, Social Darwinists, Sherman Anti-Trust Act, National Labor Union, Knights of Labor,
Haymarket Square, American Federation of Labor, closed shop, Cornelius Vanderbuilt, Alexander
Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Samuel Gompers,
Chapter 25: new immigrants, settlement houses, liberal Protestants, Tuskegee Institute, land
grant college, pragatism, yellow journalism, National American Woman Suffrage Association
(NAWSA), Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WUTH), World’s Columbian Exposition, Jane
Addams, Charles Darwin, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. De Bois, Joseph Pulizer, William Randolf
Hearst, John Dewey, Horatio Alger, Mark Twain, Carrie Chapman Catt
Chapter 26: reservation system, Battler of Little Bighorn, Battle of Wounded Knee, Dawes
Severalty Act, mining industry, Homestead Act, mechanization of agriculture, Populists, Pullman
Strike, fourth party system, Gold Standard Act, Fredrick Jackson Turner, Jacob S. Cosey, William
McKinley, Marcus Alonzo Hanna,
Chapter 27: Big Sister Policy, Great Reapproachment, McKinley Tariff, insurrectos, Maine, Teller
Amendment, Rough Riders, Anti-Imperialist League, Foraker Act, Insular Cases, Platt Amendment,
Open Door Policy, Boxer Rebellion, Hay Paunceforte Treaty, Roosevelt Corollary, Root-Takahira
Agreement, Josiah Strong, Alfred Thayer Mahan, James G. Blaine, Richard Olney, Lilioukalani
“butcher” Weyler, Dupuy De Lome, George Dewey, Emilio Aguinaldo, William H. Taft, Theodore
“Teddy Roosevelt
Period 7 (1890-1945):
a.
Identity: How did continuing debates over immigration and assimilation reflect
changing ideals of national and ethnic identity? How did class identities change in this
period?
b.
Work, Exchange & Technology: How did movements for political and economic
reform take shape in this period, and how effective were they in achieving their goals?
c.
Peopling: Why did public attitudes towards immigration become negative during
this time period? How and why did people migrate within the U.S. during this time
period.
d.
Politics & Power: How did reformist ideals change as they were taken up by
reformers in different time periods? Why did opposition emerge to various reform
programs?
e.
America in the World: Why did U.S. leaders decide to become involved in global
conflicts such as the Spanish American War, World War I, and World War II? How did
debates over intervention reflect public views of America’s role in the world?
f.
Environment and Geography: Why did reformers seek for the government to wrest
control of the environment and national resources from commercial interests?
g.
Ideas, Beliefs and Culture: How did “modern” cultural values evolve in response
to developments in technology? How did debates over the role of women in American
public life reflect changing social realities?
Vocabulary: Chapter 28: social gospel, muckrakers, initiative, referendum, recall, Australian
ballot, Muller vs. Oregon, Lochner vs. New York, Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU),
Elkin’s Act, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Hetch Hetchy Valley, dollar diplomacy,
Payne-Aldrich Bill, Henry Demarest Llyod, Thorstein Veblen, Jacob Riis, Robert M. “Fighting Bob”
La Follette, Hiram W. Johnson, Florence Kelley, Frances E. Willard, Gifford Pinchot, John Muir
Chapter 29: New Freedom, New Nationalism, Underwood Tariff, Federal Reserve Act, Federal
Trade Commission Act, Clayton Anti-Trust Act, holding companies, Workingmen’s Compensation
Act, Adamson Act, Jones Act, Tampico Incident, Central Powers, Allies, U-boat, Lusitania
Chapter 30: Zimmerman Trial, Fourteen Points, Committee on Public Information, Espionage
Act, Schenck vs. United States, War Industries Board, National War Labor Board, Industrial Workers
of the World, Nineteenth Amendment, Sheppard Towner Maternity Act, Battle of Chateau-Thierry,
Meuse-Argonne offensive, League of Nations, irreconcilables, Treaty of Versailles, Arthur
Zimmerman, George Creel, Eugene V. Debs, William D. “Big Bill” Haywood, Bernard Baruch,
Herbert C. Hoover, Henry Cabot Lodge, David Lloyd George
Chapter 31: Bolshevik Revolution, red scare, criminal syndication laws, America plan, Bible Belt,
Immigration Act of 1924, Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, racketeers, Fundamentalism,
Scientific Manamgement, Fordism, United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), A. Mitchell
Palmer, Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Horace Kallen, Randolph Bourne, Al Capone, John T.
Scopes, Fredrick W. Taylor, Henry Ford, Charles A Lindbergh, Sigmund Freud,
Chapter 32: Atkins vs. Children’s Hospital, Nine-Power Treaty, Kellogg Briand Pact, FordneyMcCumber Tariff Law, Teapot Dome Scandal, McNary Haugen Bill, Dawes Plan, Agricultural
Marketing Act, Black Tuesday, Hawley Smoot Tariff, Hoovervilles, Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, Norris-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Act, Bonus Army, Warren G. Harding, Albert B Fall,
Calvin Coolidge, John W. Davis, Robert M. (Fighting Bob) La Follette, Albert E. Smith
Chapter 33: Brain Trust, New Deal, Hundred Days, Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act, Civil
Conservation Corps (CCC), National Recovery Administration (NRA), Agricultural Adjustment
Administration (AAA), Dust Bowl, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Social Security Act, Wagner
Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO), Court-packing plan,
Keynesianism, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry L. Hopkins, Father Charles
Coughlin, Francis E. Townsend, Huey P. (Kingfish) Long, Frances Perkins, Mary McLeod Bethune,
Robert F. Wagner
Chapter 34: London Economic Conference, Good Neighbor Policy, Reciprocal Trade Agreements
Act, Rome-Berlin Axis, Johnson Debt Default Act, Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936 and 1937, Abraham
Lincoln Brigade, Quarantine Speech, Appeasement, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Neutrality Act of 1939,
Kristallnacht, War Refugee Board, Lend-Lease Bill, Atlantic Charter, Pearl Harbor, Benito Mussolini,
Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco, Cordell Hull, Wendell L. Willkie
Chapter 35: ABC-1 Agreement, Executive Order No. 9066, War Production Board (WPB), Office of
Price Administration (OPA), National War Labor Board (NWLB), Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act,
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service
(WAVES), U.S. Coast Guard Women’s Reserve (SPARs), Bracero Program, Fair Employment Practices
Commission (FEPC), Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Navajo Code Talkers, Battle of Midway, DDay, W-E Day (Victory in Europe), Potsdam Conference, Manhattan Project, V-J Day (Victory in
Japan), Douglas MacArthur, Chester Nimitz, Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman, Albert
Einstein
Period 8
1. Identity: How did the African-American Civil Rights movement affect the development of
other movements based on asserting the rights of different groups in American society? How
did American involvement in the Cold War affect debates over American national identity?
2. Work, Exchange & Technology: How did the rise of American manufacturing and global
economic dominance in the years after World War II affect standards of living among and
opportunities for different social groups?
3. Peopling: How did the growth of migration to and within the United States influence
demographic change and social attitudes in the nation?
4. Politics & Power: How did the changing fortunes of liberalism and conservatism in these
years affect broader aspects of social and political power?
5. America and the World: Why did Americans endorse a new engagement in international
affairs during the Cold War? How did this belief change over time in response to particular
events?
6. Environment & Geography: Why did public concern about the state of the natural
environment grow during this period, and what major changes in public policy did this
create?
7. Ideas, Beliefs & Culture: How did changes in popular culture reflect or cause changes in
social attitudes? How did the reaction to these changes affect political and public debates
Vocabulary: Chapter 36: Taft-Hartley Act, Operation Dixie, Employment Act of 1946, GI Bill,
Sunbelt, Levittown, baby boom, Yalta Conference, Cold War, Bretton Woods Conference, United
Nations, Nuremburg war crimes trial, Berlin airlift, containment doctrine, Truman Doctrine,
Marshall Plan, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), House Un-American Activities Committee
(HUAC), Fair Deal, National Security Council Memorandum Number 68 (NSC-68), Korean War,
Bejamin Spock, Joseph Stalin, Jiang Jieshi, George F. Keenan, Reinhold Niebuhr, George C.
Marshall
Chapter 37: The Feminine Mystique, rock n’ roll, Checkers Speech, McCarthyism, Army-McCarthy
hearings, Jim Crow, Montgomery bus boycott, Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas,
Mendez vs. Westminster, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Operation Wetback,
Federal Highway Act of 1956, policy of boldness, Hungarian uprising, Battle of Dien Bien Phu, Suez
crisis, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Sputnik, kitchen debate, Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, Betty Friedan, Elvis Presley, Joseph McCarthy, Rosa Parks, Martin
Luther King Jr., Earl Warren, John Forest Dulles, Nikita Khrushchev, Ho Chi Minh, Gamal Abdel
Nasser, Fidel Castro, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
Chapter 38: New Frontier, Peace Corps, Apollo, Berlin Wall, European Economic Community
(ECC), Bay of Pigs invasion, Cuban missile crisis, Freedom Riders, Voter Education Project, March
on Washington, Civil Rights Act of 1964, affirmative action, Great Society, Freedom Summer,
Mississippi Freedom Democratic party, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Black Panther Party, Black Power,
Six-Day War, Stonewall Rebellion, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Robert F. Kennedy,
Robert S. McNamara, Ngo Dinh Diem, James Meredith, Lee Harvey Oswald, Malcolm X, Eugene
McCarthy, George C. Wallace
Chapter 39: Vietnamization, Nixon Doctrine, silent majority, My Lai Massacre, Kent State
University, Pentagon Papers, détente, Miranda warning, Philadelphia Plan, Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), Earth Day, southern strategy, War Powers Act, Watergate, “smoking gun”
tape, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), Roe v. Wade, malaise speech, SALT II, Iranian Hostage Crisis,
Henry A. Kissinger, Warren E. Burger, Rachel Carson, George McGovern, Gerald (“Jerry”) Ford,
John Dean III, James Earl (“Jimmy”) Carter Jr., Leonid Brezhnev
Period 9
1. Identity: How did demographic and economic changes in American society affect popular
debates over American national identity
2. Work, Exchange & Technology: How did the shift to a global economy affect American
economic life? How did scientific and technological developments in these years change how
Americans lived and worked?
3. Peopling: How did increased migration raise questions about American identity and affect
the nation demographically, culturally, and politically?
4. Politics & Power: How successful were conservatives in achieving their goals? To what
extent did liberalism remain influential politically and culturally?
5. America in the World: How did the end of the Cold War affect American foreign policy? How
did the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 impact America’s role in the world?
6. Environment & Geography: How did debates over climate change and energy policy affect
broader social and political movements??
Ideas, Belief & Culture: How did technological and scientific innovations in areas such as
electronics, biology, medicine, and communications affect society, popular culture, and public
discourse? How did a more demographically diverse population shape popular culture?
Vocabulary: Chapter 40: Proposition 13, boll weevils, supply-side economics, Reaganomics,
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), Sandinistas, contras, glasnost, perestroika, Intermediate-Range
Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Iran-Contra affair, Moral Majority, Black Monday, Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS), Operation Desert Storm, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Ronald
Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, Saddam Hussein, Jerry Falwell, Sandra Day
O’Connor, George H.W. Bush, Boris Yeltsin, Nelson Mandela, Manuel Noriega, Norman (“Stormin’
Norman”) Schwarzkopf, Clarence Thomas,
Chapter 41: weapons of mass destruction (WMD), Democratic Leadership Council, Oklahoma City
Bombing, Contract with America, Welfare Reform Bill, North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA), World Trade Organization (WTO), McCain-Feingold Act, Whitewater, Lewinsky affair,
Kyoto Treaty, 9/11, Al Quaeda, USA Patriot Act, Department of Homeland Security, Guantanamo
Detention Camp, Abu Ghraib prison, No Child Left Behind Act, Hurricane Katrina, William (Bill)
Jefferson Clinton, H. Ross Perot, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Robert Dole, John McCain,
Sara Palin, Monica Lewinsky, George W. Bush (son), Richard Cheney, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi,
Barack Obama, Joseph R. (Joe) Biden