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The American Experiment: A History of the United States, Second Edition
Steven M. Gillon, University of Oklahoma
Cathy D. Matson, University of Delaware
et al.
Identifications

Identify the following significant individuals, groups, places, events, movements, and developments discussed in each chapter. Be sure to address each of the following three elements in your responses:

1. Identify the item: Who? or What?

2. Establish the historical perspective or context: Where? and When?

3. Discuss the historical significance: Why so Important?

Chapter 1: Out of Old Worlds, New Worlds
Chapter 2: The First Experiments, 1540-1680
Chapter 3: Imperial Connections, 1660-174?
Chapter 4: Colonial Maturation and Conflict, 1680-1754
Chapter 5: Forging the American Experiment, 1754-1775
Chapter 6: Winning Independence, 1775-1783
Chapter 7: The Federal Experiment, 1783-1800
Chapter 8: Striving for Nationhood, 1800-1824
Chapter 9: An Emerging Capitalist Nation, 1790-1820
Chapter 10: Transforming the Political Culture, 1820-1840
Chapter 11: Industry and Reform in the North, 1820-1850
Chapter 12: Living with Slavery, North and South, 1820-1850
Chapter 13: The Westward Experiment, 1820-1850
Chapter 14: The Sectional Challenge, 1848-1860
Chapter 15: Transforming the Experiment: The Civil War, 1861-1865
Chapter 16: Reconstruction and the New South, 1864-1900
Chapter 17: Conquering the West, 1862-1900
Chapter 18: The Industrial Experiment, 1865-1900
Chapter 19: The New Urban Nation, 1865-1910
Chapter 20: State and Society, 1877-1900
Chapter 21: The Progressive Era, 1889-1916
Chapter 22: The Experiment in American Empire, 1865-1917
Chapter 23: Making the World Safe for Democracy: America and World War I, 1914-1920
Chapter 24: The New Era, 1920-1928
Chapter 25: "Fear Itself": Crash, Depression, and the New Deal, 1929-1938
Chapter 26: War and Society, 1933-1945
Chapter 27: The Cold War, 1945-1952
Chapter 28: The Consumer Society, 1945-1960
Chapter 29: Consensus and Confrontation, 1960-1968
Chapter 30: The Politics of Polarization, 1969-1979
Chapter 31: The Reagan Experiment, 1979-1988
Chapter 32: America After the Cold War, 1988-2000
Chapter 33: Epilogue: The Challenges of the New Century




Chapter 1: Out of Old Worlds, New Worlds

  • Cherokee
  • Western Hemisphere 
  • Beringia
  • Paleo-Indians
  • Adena
  • Cahokia
  • Hohokam
  • Anasazi
  • Pueblo
  • Navajo
  • Powhatan
  • Algonquian
  • Great League of Peace
  • Mesoamerica
  • Olmec
  • Toltec
  • Tenochtitlan
  • Maya
  • Aztec
  • Huitzilopochtli
  • Mohicans
  • Tiwanaku
  • Inca
  • Pachakuti
  • Cuzco
  • Quipu
  • Kingdom of Ghana
  • Kingdom of Songhai
  • Timbuktu
  • Black Death
  • Erik the Red
  • Leif Erikson
  • Marco Polo
  • Enclosure Acts
  • Sir Thomas More
  • Ferdinand and Isabella
  • Renaissance
  • Astrolabe
  • Sextant
  • Galileo Galilei
  • Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Reformation
  • Martin Luther
  • John Calvin
  • John Knox
  • Edict of Nantes
  • Anglican Church
  • Puritans
  • Chattel
  • Prince Henry the Navigator
  • Bartholomeu Dias
  • Vasco da Gama
  • Christopher Columbus
  • Treaty of Tordesillas
  • Amerigo Vespucci
  • Martin Waldseemuller
  • Conquistadores
  • Vasco Nunez de Balboa
  • Hernan Cortes
  • Ala Malinche
  • Quetzalcoatl
  • Montezuma
  • Francisco Pizarro
  • Atahualpa
  • Juan Ponce de Leon
  • Alavar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
  • Hernando de Soto
  • Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
  • Columbian Exchange
  • Midpassage

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Chapter 2: The First Experiments, 1540-1680

  • St. Augustine
  • Encomienda System
  • Potosi
  • Mestizo
  • Mulatto
  • Creole
  • Juan de Onate
  • Jean Ribault
  • Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles
  • Giovanni da Verrazzano
  • Jacques Cartier
  • Samuel de Champlain
  • Louis Jolliet
  • Jacques Marquette
  • Sieur de La Salle
  • Burghers
  • Dutch East India Company
  • Henry Hudson
  • Pierre Minuit
  • Patronen
  • Bouweries
  • Willem Kieft
  • Peter Stuyvesant
  • John Cabot
  • Sea Dogs
  • Sir Francis Drake
  • Sir Humphrey Gilbert
  • Sir Walter Ralegh
  • Richard Hakluyt
  • Roanoke
  • Virginia
  • John White
  • Powhatan
  • John Smith
  • Sir Thomas Gates
  • James Town
  • Baron De la Warr
  • Pocahontas
  • John Rolfe
  • House of Burgesses
  • Opechancanough
  • Lord Baltimore
  • Indentured servants
  • Thomas Weston
  • Mayflower
  • Pilgrims
  • Mayflower Compact
  • Massasoit
  • William Bradford
  • Pilgrims
  • Miles Standish
  • John Winthrop
  • City upon a Hill
  • "Great Migration"
  • Roger Williams
  • Anne Hutchinson
  • Antinomianism
  • Mary Dyer
  • Thomas Hooker
  • Halfway Covenant
  • King Philip
  • Metacomet's War
  • Nathaniel Bacon
  • Bacon's Rebellion

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Chapter 3: Imperial Connections, 1660-174?

  • John Locke
  • "Rice belt"
  • William Drummond
  • James, Duke of York
  • Col. Richard Nicolls
  • Sir George Carteret
  • Lord John Berkeley
  • Edmund Andros
  • William Penn
  • Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon
  • Society of Friends
  • “Inner light”
  • Frame of Government of 1681
  • Charter of Privileges
  • Casa de Contratacion
  • Acts of Trade and Navigation
  • Staple Act
  • Duty Act
  • Wool Act
  • Mercantilism
  • Dominion of New England
  • Glorious Revolution
  • William and Mary
  • Jacob Leisler
  • John Coode and Josias Fendall
  • “Power of the purse-strings”
  • "Swilling the bumbo" or “passing the sack”
  • Salem Witch Trials
  • Samuel Parris
  • Tituba
  • William Phips
  • Giles Cory
  • King William's War
  • Queen Anne's War
  • Treaty of Utrecht
  • Covenant Chain
  • Sir Robert Walpole
  • George Clinton
  • Currency Act
  • Molasses Act
  • Robert Jenkins
  • James Oglethorpe
  • Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
  • Enlightenment
  • Sir Isaac Newton
  • Tabula Rasa
  • John Winthrop, Jr.
  • Deists
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • American Philosophical Society
  • John Peter Zenger
  • Cato

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Chapter 4: Colonial Maturation and Conflict, 1680-1754

  • New Immigrants
  • Huguenots
  • Law of Coverture
  • Indentured Servants
  • William Kidd
  • "Better Sort"
  • Middlings
  • "Lower Sort"
  • Boston Riots
  • Coopers
  • John Woolman
  • "By-employments"
  • Mid-Atlantic Region
  • Chesapeake Region
  • “Factors”
  • Indigo
  • James Oglethorpe and John Percival
  • Middle Passage
  • “Seasoned Slaves”
  • "Task System"
  • Gullah
  • Mose
  • Francisco Menendez
  • Stono River
  • Great Awakening
  • Johnathan Edwards
  • William Tennent
  • Theodore Frelinghuysen
  • George Whitefield
  • Gilbert Tennent
  • James Davenport
  • "New Lights"
  • “Old Lights”
  • "Long Knives"
  • “Regulators”
  • Chief Hendrick
  • Ethan Allen
  • Marquis Duquesne

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Chapter 5: Forging the American Experiment, 1754-1775

  • George Washington
  • Fort Necessity
  • Great Meadows
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Plan of Union
  • “Unite or Die”
  • Albany Congress
  • Edward Braddock
  • Fort Duquesne
  • French and Indian War
  • Lord Loudoun
  • Marquis Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
  • William Pitt
  • Fort Pitt
  • Treaty of Paris
  • Ethan Allen
  • Jeffery Amherst
  • Neolin
  • Pontiac
  • Proclamation Line of 1763
  • Paxton Boys
  • Treaty of Hard Labor
  • Regulators
  • William Tryon
  • Battle of Alamance
  • Richard Henderson
  • Daniel Boone
  • Transylvania
  • Lord Bute
  • Revenue Act
  • George Grenville
  • Sugar Act
  • Molasses Act
  • Currency Act
  • Quartering Act
  • Stamp Act
  • Patrick Henry
  • Loyal Nine
  • Sons of Liberty
  • Stamp Act Congress
  • Lord Rockingham
  • Declaratory Act
  • Charles Townshend
  • Townshend Duties
  • Liberty
  • John Hancock
  • John Dickinson
  • Samuel Adams
  • "Circular Letter"
  • Lord North
  • Boston Massacre
  • Golden Hill Riots
  • Crispus Attucks
  • John Adams and Josiah Quincy, Jr.
  • James Bowdoin
  • "Committee of Correspondence"
  • Tea Act
  • Boston Tea Party
  • Coercive Acts
  • Quebec Act
  • First Continental Congress
  • "Suffolk Resolves"
  • Joseph Galloway
  • Declaration of Rights
  • Intercolonial Association Agreement
  • Committees of Observation and Safety
  • Edmund Burke
  • Paul Revere and William Dawes
  • Lexington
  • Concord
  • Minutemen

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Chapter 6: Winning Independence, 1775-1783

  • William Howe
  • Battle of Bunker Hill
  • Green Mountain Boys
  • Fort Ticonderoga
  • Second Continental Congress
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • George Washington
  • John Adams
  • John Dickinson
  • Olive Branch Petition
  • Richard Montgomery
  • Benedict Arnold
  • Thomas Paine
  • Common Sense
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Cesar Rodney
  • Hessians
  • William Howe
  • Committee of Public Safety
  • Battle of Long Island
  • Battles of Trenton and Princeton
  • John Burgoyne
  • Horatio Gates
  • Battle of Saratoga
  • Valley Forge
  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Baron von Steuben
  • Marquis de Lafayette
  • Johann Baron de Kalb
  • Thaddeus Kosciuszko
  • Casmir Count Pulaski
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Comte de Vergennes
  • Battle of Monmouth Court House
  • Mary Ludwig Hays
  • Lord Dunmore
  • Benning Wentworth
  • Thomas Hutchinson
  • Daniel Leonard
  • Joseph Brant
  • Tories
  • Ladies Association of Philadelphia
  • Esther DeBerdt
  • Sarah Franklin Bache
  • Camp followers
  • Nancy Hart
  • “Continentals”
  • Land Embargo Laws
  • Fort Wilson riot
  • John Honeyman
  • Benjamin Church
  • Henry Clinton
  • John Andre
  • “Jail fever”
  • Spirit of the Laws
  • Thoughts on Government
  • The People the Best Governors
  • Common Sense
  • Articles of Confederation
  • Robert Morris
  • George Rogers Clark
  • Lord Cornwallis
  • Patrick Ferguson
  • Horatio Gates
  • Thomas Sumter
  • Comte de Rochambeau
  • Nathanael Greene
  • Francis Marion
  • Battle of Guilford Court House
  • Battle of Yorktown
  • Treaty of Paris

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Chapter 7: The Federal Experiment, 1783-1800

  • Mercy Otis Warren
  • Newburgh petition
  • George Washington
  • Elizabeth Mumbet Freeman
  • Anthony Benezet
  • Absolom Jones
  • Jupiter Hammon
  • Phillis Wheatley
  • Gabriel Prosser
  • Empress of China:country-region>
  • “Stay laws”
  • Trevett v. Weeden
  • Daniel Shays
  • James Bowdoin
  • Land Ordinance of 1785
  • Manassah Cutler and William Duer
  • James Wilkinson
  • John Jay
  • Treat of Fort Stanwix
  • Treaty of Fort McIntosh
  • State of Franklin
  • Northwest Ordinance of 1787
  • Federalists
  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Annapolis Convention
  • Constitutional Convention
  • Edmund Randolph
  • "Virginia Plan"
  • "New Jersey Plan"
  • Henry Knox
  • Connecticut Compromise
  • Federalism
  • Elastic Clause
  • “Three-fifths Compromise”
  • The Federalist
  • James Madison
  • Antifederalists
  • Patrick Henry
  • Judiciary Act of 1789
  • Bill of Rights
  • Tariff Act of 1789
  • “Report of Manufactures”
  • "Report on the Public Credit"
  • Adam Smith
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Indian Intercourse Act
  • Little Turtler
  • Anthony Wayne
  • Battle of Fallen Timbers
  • Treaty of Greenville
  • Whiskey Rebellion
  • Neutrality Act
  • Jay’s Treaty
  • Thomas Pinckney
  • John Adams
  • XYZ Affair
  • Alien Act
  • Naturalization Act
  • Sedition Act
  • Matthew Lyon
  • Roger Griswold
  • Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
  • Aaron Burr

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Chapter 8: Striving for Nationhood, 1800-1824

  • Philadelphia
  • “Revolution of 1800”
  • Judiciary Act of 1801
  • "Midnight Appointments"
  • Samuel Chase
  • John Marshall
  • Marbury v. Madison
  • McCulloch v. Maryland
  • Fletcher v. Peck
  • Dartmouth College v. Woodward
  • Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur
  • Parson Weems
  • William Hill Brown
  • Susanna Haswell Rowson
  • Noah Webster
  • James Monroe
  • “Virginia Dynasty”
  • John C. Calhoun
  • American System
  • Frederick Jackson Turner
  • Land Acts of 1796 and 1801
  • Louisiana Purchase
  • Robert Livingston
  • Hamilton and Burr Duel
  • Lewis and Clark
  • Chief Black Cat
  • Sacagawea
  • Zebulon Pike
  • Five Civilized Tribes
  • Society for Propagating the Gospel
  • John Ross
  • Sequoyah
  • Tecumseh
  • William Henry Harrison
  • The Prophet
  • Treaty of Fort Wayne
  • Tippecanoe
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Battle at Horseshoe Bend
  • Junipero Serra
  • Pickney’s Treaty
  • Bernardo Gutierrez
  • Non-Importation Act
  • Chesapeake
  • Force Act
  • Ograbme
  • Non-Intercourse Act
  • Macon's Bill No. 2
  • War Hawks
  • Henry Clay
  • Oliver Hazard Perry
  • Fort McHenry
  • Hartford Convention
  • Treatt of Ghent
  • Battle of New Orleans
  • John Quincy Adams
  • Adams-Onis Treaty
  • Monroe Doctrine
  • Era of Good Feelings

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Chapter 9: An Emerging Capitalist Nation, 1790-1820

  • Deborah Sampson Gannett
  • Judith Sargent Murray
  • Benjamin Rush
  • Mother’s Monthly Journal
  • Second Great Awakening
  • William Ellery Channing
  • Charles Grandison Finney
  • Robert Oliver
  • Stephen Girard
  • Empress of China
  • Robert Gray
  • Jefferson Embargo of 1807
  • Corn Laws
  • Albert Gallatin
  • National Road
  • Robert Fulton
  • Robert Livingston
  • Clermont
  • Nicholas Roosevelt
  • New Orleans
  • Gibbons v. Ogden
  • Schuylkill Canal
  • Erie Canal
  • “Clinton’s Folly”
  • Report on Manufactures
  • Oliver Evans
  • Simeon North
  • John Hall
  • Eli Whitney
  • American System of Manufactures
  • "Putting-out" System
  • Lynn, Massachusetts
  • Samuel Slater
  • "Scientific Farming"
  • Robert Morris
  • “Cotton Gin”
  • Missouri Compromise
  • Panic of 1819

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Chapter 10: Transforming the Political Culture, 1820-1840

  • Democracy
  • "Era of Good Feelings"
  • John C. Calhoun
  • De Witt Clinton
  • Martin Van Buren
  • Bucktails
  • "Old Hickory"
  • Henry Clay
  • John Quincy Adams
  • William Crawford
  • "Corrupt Bargain"
  • Tariff of Abominations
  • Democratic Party
  • "Kitchen cabinet"
  • "Spoils system"
  • George M. Troup
  • Indian Removal Act
  • Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
  • Worcester v. Georgia
  • Chief Black Hawk
  • Massacre at Bad Axe
  • John Ross
  • Winfield Scott
  • Indian Territory
  • "Trail of Tears"
  • The South Carolina Exposition and Protest
  • Robert Hayne
  • Daniel Webster
  • Ordinance of Nullification
  • Force Act
  • Nicholas Biddle
  • Roger B. Taney
  • Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
  • Briscoe v. Bank of Kentucky
  • Whig Party
  • Thomas Skidmore
  • "Workies"
  • Locofocos
  • "Panic of 1837"
  • Specie Circular
  • William Henry Harrison
  • "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too"
  • Preemption Act

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Chapter 11: Industry and Reform in the North, 1820-1850

  • Anson Phelps
  • Tammany Hall
  • Samuel F. B. Morse
  • John Jacob Astor
  • “Rags to Riches”
  • "Middling Sort"
  • Elias Howe
  • Isaac Singer
  • African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church
  • Cincinnati Riots
  • Philadelphia Riots
  • Scientific Farming
  • “By-employments”
  • Tenant and Itinerant Laborers
  • Black Ball Line
  • “Square-riggers”
  • Rainbow
  • American Steamship Navigation Company
  • Gail Borden
  • John Deere
  • Cyrus Hall McCormick
  • Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
  • “Putting-out System”
  • "Free Labor"
  • “Closed Shop”
  • Samuel Slater
  • "Waltham System"
  • Francis Cabot Lowell
  • "Lowell System"
  • "Lowell Girls"
  • Seth Luther
  • The Lowell Offerings
  • New England Female Labor Reform Association
  • Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Charles Grandison Finney
  • American Society for the Promotion of Temperance
  • Lyman Beecher
  • American Temperance Union
  • Martha Washington Societies
  • Helen Jewett
  • Female Moral Reform Society
  • Dorothea Dix
  • Catherine Beecher
  • Horace Mann
  • Oberlin College
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Lucretia Mott
  • Seneca Falls
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Joseph Smith
  • Nauvoo, Illinois
  • Brigham Young
  • William Miller
  • Shakers
  • Mother Ann Lee
  • Oneida, New York
  • John Humphrey Noyes
  • New Harmony, Indiana
  • Robert Owen
  • “Phalanxes”
  • Charles Fourier
  • American Philosophical Society (APS)
  • James Fenimore Cooper
  • Washington Irving
  • Hudson River School
  • Thomas Cole
  • Karl Bodmer
  • George Catlin
  • Transcendentalists
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Margaret Fuller
  • Walt Whitman
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Herman Melville

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Chapter 12: Living with Slavery, North and South, 1820-1850

  • American Colonization Society
  • Liberia:country-region>
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Frances Wright
  • Nashoba, Tennessee
  • David Walker
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Theodore Dwight Weld
  • Lyman Beecher
  • Oberlin College
  • William Lloyd Garrison
  • Arthur Tappan
  • American Anti-Slavery Society
  • Lucretia Mott
  • Maria W. Chapman
  • Angelina and Sarah Grimke
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • Alexis de Tocqueville
  • King Cotton
  • William Gregg
  • "Black Belt"
  • “Gang and Task Systems of Labor”
  • Underground Railroad
  • Harriet Jacobs
  • Thomas Garrett
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Gabriel Prosser
  • Denmark Vesey
  • Gullah Jack
  • Nat Turner
  • Black Codes
  • John Cook
  • Benjamin Bannaker
  • Robert Sheridan
  • Absalom Jones
  • Richard Allen
  • Frances Watkins
  • Yeomen Farmers
  • “Necessary Evil”
  • Elijah P. Lovejoy
  • "Snow Storm"
  • “Peculiar Institution”
  • James Henry Hammond
  • William Harper
  • Thomas R. Dew
  • George Fitzhugh
  • John C. Calhoun
  • James G. Birney
  • Hinton Helper

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Chapter 13: The Westward Experiment, 1820-1850

  • Lansford Hastings
  • Donner-Reed Party
  • John O’Sullivan
  • Manifest Destiny
  • Thomas Hart Benton
  • John Jacob Astor
  • Jedediah Smith
  • Land Act of 1820
  • Preemption Acts of 1830 and 1841
  • Graduation Act of 1854
  • Zebulon Pike
  • John C. Fremont
  • "Clipper Ships of the West"
  • Indian Territory
  • Presidios
  • Tejanos
  • Vaqueros
  • Moses Austin
  • Santa Anna
  • Stephen Austin
  • Alamo
  • Davy Crockett
  • Jim Bowie
  • Sam Houston
  • San Jacinto River
  • Eliza Farnham
  • Oregon Societies”
  • Horace Greeley
  • "Oregon Conventions"
  • Johan Augustus Sutter
  • John Tyler
  • Henry Clay
  • James K. Polk
  • "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight"
  • James G. Birney
  • Bear Flag Republic
  • Zachary Taylor
  • John Slidell
  • Stephen Kearny
  • Buena Vista
  • Winfield Scott
  • Nicholas P. Trist
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  • Stephen A. Douglas
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wilmot's Proviso
  • Free-Soil Movement
  • Lewis Cass
  • Popular Sovereignty
  • Zachary Taylor
  • Free Soil Party
  • Martin Van Buren
  • James Marshall
  • "Forty-Niners"
  • "Chinatowns"
  • Levi Strauss
  • Comstock Lode

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Chapter 14: The Sectional Challenge, 1848-1860

  • Zachary Taylor
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Henry Clay
  • Daniel Webster
  • William Henry Seward
  • Salmon P. Chase
  • Millard Fillmore
  • Stephen A. Douglas
  • Compromise of 1850
  • "Fire-Eaters"
  • Fugitive Slave Act
  • Prigg v. Pennsylvania
  • Underground Railroad
  • Solomon Northrup
  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Anthony Burns
  • Winfield Scott
  • Franklin Pierce
  • Matthew Perry
  • Townshend Harris
  • "Young America" Movement
  • Filibustero
  • Narcisco Lopez
  • Black Warrior
  • William L. Marcy
  • Ostend Manifesto
  • William Walker
  • Gadsden Purchase
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • “Know-Nothings”
  • David Atchison
  • Amos Lawrence
  • Eli Thayer
  • Pottawatomie Creek
  • John Brown
  • "Bleeding Kansas"
  • Preston Brooks
  • Charles Sumner
  • Republican Party
  • James Buchanan
  • John C. Fremont
  • Millard Fillmore
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford
  • Lecompton Constitution
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Mary Todd
  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  • Freeport Doctrine
  • William H. Seward
  • John C. Breckinridge
  • John Bell
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Alexander Stephens

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Chapter 15: Transforming the Experiment: The Civil War, 1861-1865

  • Crittenden Compromise
  • Fort Sumter
  • Robert Anderson
  • Border States
  • Writ of Habeas Corpus
  • Jayhawkers v. Bushwhackers
  • John Ross
  • Anaconda Plan
  • Alexander Stephens
  • First Battle of Bull Run
  • Joseph E. Johnston
  • Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
  • Peninsular Campaign
  • George McClellan
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Fort Henry
  • Fort Donelson
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Shiloh
  • Albert Sidney Johnston
  • Don Carlos Buell
  • David G. Farragut
  • Gideon Welles
  • Stephen R. Mallory
  • C.S.S. Hunley
  • C.S.S. Virginia v. U.S.S. Monitor
  • C.S.S. Alabama
  • Trent Affair
  • Second Battle of Bull Run
  • Antietam
  • Braxton Bragg
  • Edmund Kirby-Smith
  • John Pope
  • Joseph E. Brown
  • Thaddeus Stevens
  • Salmon P. Chase
  • Internal Revenue Act
  • Legal Tender Act
  • Greenbacks
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Clement L. Vallandigham
  • Ex parte Milligan
  • Charles E. King
  • Andersonville Prison Camp
  • Belle Isle Prison Camp
  • Homestead Act
  • Morrill Land Grant Act
  • U.S. Sanitary Commission
  • Dorothea Dix
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • Militia Act
  • Fredericksburg
  • Ambrose Burnside
  • Chancellorsville
  • Joseph Hooker
  • George G. Meade
  • Gettysburg
  • George E. Pickett
  • Vicksburg
  • John C. Pemberton
  • Chattanooga
  • William Rosecrans
  • William T. Sherman
  • Spotsylvania Courthouse
  • Winfield Scott Hancock
  • Andrew Johnson
  • John C. Fremont
  • John Bell Hood
  • Appomattox Courthouse

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Chapter 16: Reconstruction and the New South, 1864-1900

  • Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
  • Radical Republicans
  • Charles Sumner
  • Thaddeus Stevens
  • Wade-Davis Bill
  • Benjamin Wade
  • Henry Winter Davis
  • Freedmen's Bureau
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Thirteenth Amendment
  • "Black Codes"
  • Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction
  • Civil Rights Act of 1866
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • "Swing Around the Circle"
  • “Waving the Bloody Shirt”
  • First Reconstruction Act
  • "Sherman's Land"
  • Southern Homestead Act
  • Fifteenth Amendment
  • Equal Rights Association
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)
  • Lucy Stone
  • American Woman Suffrage Association (ASWA)
  • Tenure of Office Act
  • Edwin M. Stanton
  • Salmon P. Chase
  • Benjamin Butler
  • Henry Stanbery
  • Hiram Revels
  • Carpetbaggers
  • Scalawags
  • Sharecropping
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Horatio Seymour
  • Jay Gould
  • Credit Mobilier
  • Whiskey Ring
  • Orville E. Babcock
  • Horace Greeley
  • "Panic of 1873"
  • Specie Resumption Act
  • Redeemers
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Enforcement Acts
  • Slaughterhouse Cases
  • U.S.:country-region> v. Cruikshank
  • U.S.:country-region> v. Harris
  • Colfax Massacre
  • Rutherford B. Hayes
  • Samuel J. Tilden
  • Joint Electoral Commission
  • Compromise of 1877
  • "New South"
  • Henry Grady
  • Henry Watterson
  • William H. Harrison, Jr.
  • Joel Chandler Harris
  • Mark Twain
  • Ruth McEnery Stuart
  • Kate Chopin
  • Ellen Glasgow
  • "Jim Crow Laws"
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Booker T. Washington
  • "Atlanta Compromise"

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Chapter 17: Conquering the West, 1862-1900

  • Homestead Act
  • Timber Culture Act
  • Desert Land Act
  • Timber and Stone Act
  • United States v. Reynolds
  • Promontory Point, Utah
  • Grenville Dodge
  • Treaty of Fort Laramie
  • Chief Black Kettle
  • John M. Chivington
  • Nelson A. Miles
  • William J. Fetterman
  • William T. Sherman
  • Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek
  • Second Treaty of Fort Laramie
  • George Custer
  • Sitting Bull
  • Little Bighorn
  • "Custer's Avengers"
  • Helen Hunt Jackson
  • Women's National Indian Association (WNIA)
  • Henry Dawes
  • Dawes General Allotment Act
  • “Last Arrow” Pageants
  • Comstock Lode
  • Coeur d’Alene Strike
  • Joseph G. McCoy
  • Joseph F. Glidden
  • “Dry Farming”
  • "Sooners"
  • Henry George
  • John Muir
  • Forest Reserve Act
  • John Robinson
  • Doc Holliday
  • Bat Masterson
  • Wyatt Earp
  • Eliza Farnham
  • Chinatown
  • Anti-Coolie Clubs
  • Californios
  • Foreign Miners Tax
  • Hispanos
  • Las Gorras Blancas
  • "The Myth of the Garden"
  • Henry Nash Smith
  • Edward L. Wheeler
  • The Winning of the West
  • Edward Zane Carroll Judson
  • Buffalo Bill Cody
  • Frederick Jackson Turner
  • William H. D. Koerner
  • The Great Train Robbery

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Chapter 18: The Industrial Experiment, 1865-1900

  • Alexander Graham Bell
  • Bessemer Process
  • Thomas Edison
  • William Stanley
  • Wilbur and Orville Wright
  • Menlo Park
  • George Westinghouse
  • Nikola Tesla
  • Charles Brush
  • Pullman Sleeping Car
  • Macy's
  • Marshall Field’s
  • Gimbel’s
  • Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P)
  • Frank Winfield Woolworth
  • Aaron Montgomery Ward
  • Vertical Integration
  • Gustavus Swift
  • Horizontal Integration
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • Trust
  • James Buchanan Duke
  • Henry O. Havemeyer
  • United States Steel Corporation
  • J. Pierpont Morgan
  • Adam Smith
  • "Invisible Hand"
  • Charles Darwin
  • Social Darwinism
  • William Graham Sumner
  • "Gospel of Wealth"
  • Horatio Alger
  • Looking Backward
  • Henry George
  • Interstate Commerce Act
  • Sherman Antitrust Act
  • Frederick W. Taylor
  • Poverty
  • International Workingmen's Association
  • National Labor Union (NLU)
  • William Sylvis
  • Colored National Labor Union (CNLU)
  • Great Railway Strike
  • Knights of Labor
  • Terence V. Powderly
  • Haymarket Square Riot
  • Peter Altgeld
  • American Federation of Labor
  • Samuel Gompers

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Chapter 19: The New Urban Nation, 1865-1910

  • "New Immigrants"
  • Mutual Aid Societies
  • Saloons
  • Omnibus
  • Mass Transit
  • Subways
  • Skyscrapers
  • Suburbs
  • Empire State Building
  • Lewis Mumford
  • Barbary Coast
  • Hyde Park
  • Great Chicago Fire
  • Baxter Street Dudes
  • William M. Tweed
  • Tammany Hall
  • Alexander R. Shepherd
  • Vaudeville
  • John L. Sullivan
  • James J. Corbett
  • Knickerbocker Club
  • William H. Cammeyer
  • St. Louis Browns Incident
  • Joseph Pulitzer
  • William Randolph Hearst
  • Jewish Daily Forward
  • William Dean Howells
  • Mark Twain
  • Frank Norris
  • Theodore Dreiser
  • Robert Henri
  • George Luks
  • George Bellows
  • "Cult of Domesticity"
  • Nannie Helen Burroughs
  • Josephine Ruffin
  • "Gibson Girl"
  • Josiah Strong
  • City Beautiful Movement
  • Frank Law Olmsted
  • Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
  • John Vincent
  • Salvation Army
  • William Booth
  • Dwight L. Moody
  • Comstock Law
  • Anthony Comstock
  • Women's Christian Temperance Union
  • Anti-Saloon League
  • American Protection Association (APA)
  • Immigration Restriction League
  • Morrill Act
  • John D. Rockefeller

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Chapter 20: State and Society, 1877-1900

  • The Gilded Age
  • "Half-Breeds"
  • Roscoe Conkling
  • "Stalwarts"
  • Prohibition Party
  • Anti-Monopoly Party
  • Greenback Party
  • Populist Party
  • Millionaire's Club
  • "Greenbacks"
  • "Billion Dollar Congress"
  • Rutherford B. Hayes
  • Alonzo Cornell
  • James A. Garfield
  • Chester A. Arthur
  • Winfield Scott Hancock
  • Charles Guiteau
  • Pendleton Civil Service Act
  • Star Route Frauds
  • James G. Blaine
  • Mugwumps
  • Grover Cleveland
  • "Black Wednesday"
  • Baby Ruth
  • Benjamin Harrison
  • John Wanamaker
  • Sherman Silver Purchase Act
  • McKinley Tariff
  • Sherman Antitrust Act
  • Dependent Pension Act
  • “Billion Dollar Congress”
  • Oliver Hudson Kelley
  • Grangers
  • Munn v. Illinois
  • Charles W. Macune
  • Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Tom Watson
  • People's Party
  • James Baird Weaver
  • "Industrial Black Friday"
  • Coxey's Army
  • Jacob Coxey
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • Henry Clay Frick
  • Homestead Act
  • Pullman Strike
  • Eugene Debs
  • Richard Olney
  • John Peter Altgeld
  • Wilson-Gorman Act
  • Pollock v. Farmers Loan and Trust
  • William Jennings Bryan
  • "Cross of Gold" Speech
  • Arthur Sewall
  • John M. Palmer
  • Populist's Fusionist Strategy
  • William McKinley
  • Garret A. Hobart
  • Mark Hanna
  • Dingley Tariff
  • Gold Standard Act

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Chapter 21: The Progressive Era, 1889-1916

  • William Graham Sumner 
  • Social Darwinism
  • William James
  • Lester Frank Ward
  • Thorstein Veblen
  • Charles A. Beard
  • John Dewey
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Louis D. Brandeis
  • Charles Sheldon
  • Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Salvation Army
  • Social Justice Movement
  • Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
  • Mary Church Terrell
  • Florence Kelley
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
  • Muckrakers
  • Ida Tarbell
  • Lincoln Steffens
  • Ray Standard Baker
  • David Graham Phillip
  • National Education Association
  • Upton Sinclair
  • Progressivism
  • Walter Weyl
  • American Medical Association
  • Commission and City Manager Governments
  • Hazen Pingree
  • Samuel Jones
  • Tom Johnson
  • Robert M. La Follette
  • "Wisconsin Idea"
  • Charles Evans Hughes
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Hiram Johnson
  • Seventeenth Amendment
  • National American Woman Suffrage Association
  • Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Nineteenth Amendment
  • Anti-Saloon League
  • Eighteenth Amendment
  • Mann Act
  • Gentlemen's Agreement of 1908
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
  • Guinn v. United States:country-region>
  • Buchanan v. Worley
  • U.S.:country-region> v. Shipps
  • Julius Rosenwald
  • Ida Wells-Barnett
  • Women’s Loyal Union
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • "Talented Tenth"
  • Eugene Debs
  • Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
  • Eugene V. Debs
  • William Haywood
  • Emma Goldman
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Margaret Sanger
  • Leon Czolgosz
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • "Trustbuster"
  • Expedition Act
  • Department of Commerce and Labor
  • Pure Food and Drug Act
  • Alton B. Parker
  • Upton Sinclair
  • John Muir
  • Gifford Pinchot
  • William Howard Taft
  • Nelson W. Aldrich
  • Joseph Cannon
  • Richard Ballinger
  • New Nationalism
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • New Freedom
  • Louis D. Brandeis
  • Federal Reserve Act

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Chapter 22: The Experiment in American Empire, 1865-1917

  • William H. Seward
  • "Seward's Folly"
  • Hamilton Fish
  • Virginius
  • Alabama
  • Orville Platt
  • Albert Beveridge
  • Josiah Strong
  • Frederick Jackson Turner
  • Henry Cabot Lodge
  • Alfred Thayer Mahan
  • Benjamin F. Tracy
  • Naval Act of 1890
  • James G. Blaine
  • First International American Conference
  • U.S.S. Baltimore
  • Richard L. Olney
  • "Bayonet Constitution"
  • John L. Stevens
  • Queen Liliuokalani
  • James H. Blount
  • Thomas F. Bayard
  • Walter Q. Gresham
  • Valeriano Weyler
  • Reconcentrados
  • William Randolph Hearst
  • Joseph Pulitzer
  • "Yellow Journalism"
  • William McKinley
  • de Lome Letter
  • Maine
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Redfield Proctor
  • Teller Amendment
  • George Dewey
  • "Rough Riders"
  • Anti-Imperialist League
  • George Hoar
  • Charles Sumner
  • Emilio Aguinaldo
  • William Howard Taft
  • Leonard Wood
  • Platt Amendment
  • Foraker Act
  • Insular Cases
  • John Hay
  • "Open Door" Notes
  • "Boxers"
  • Clayton-Bulwar Treaty
  • Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
  • Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
  • “Great White Fleet”
  • Root-Takahira Agreement
  • Philander C. Knox
  • Lodge Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • "Cooling-Off" Treaties
  • Lansing-Ishii Agreement
  • Victoriano Huerta
  • Venustiano Carranza
  • Francisco "Pancho" Villa
  • John J. Pershing

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Chapter 23: Making the World Safe for Democracy: America and World War I, 1914-1920

  • Franz Ferdinand
  • Central Powers
  • Triple Entente
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • William Jennings Bryan
  • U-boat
  • Lusitania
  • Gore-McLemore Resolutions
  • Robert Lansing
  • Arabic and Sussex Pledges
  • Naval Defense Act
  • Women's Peace Party
  • Jane Addams
  • Carrie Chapman
  • Charles Evans Hughes
  • "Peace Without Victory"
  • Zimmermann Telegram
  • Laconia
  • George Norris
  • Jeannette Rankin
  • Selective Service
  • Charles Young
  • IQ Tests
  • Committee on Training Camp Activities (CTCA)
  • Lever Food and Fuel Control Act
  • Food Administration
  • Fuel Administration
  • Railroad Administration
  • Liberty Bonds
  • War Industries Board (WIB)
  • Felix Frankfurter
  • National War Labor Board (WLB)
  • United States Housing Corporation (USHC)
  • Committee on Public Information
  • Espionage Act
  • Trading with the Enemy Act
  • Alien Act
  • Sedition Act
  • Albert Burleson
  • Thomas W. Gregory
  • Max Eastman
  • Victor Berger
  • Eugene Debs
  • American Protective League (APL)
  • Robert Prager
  • Roger Baldwin
  • Schenck v. U.S.
  • Abrams v. U.S.
  • Volstead Act
  • Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Alice Paul
  • John J. Pershing
  • American Expeditionary Force (AEF)
  • Belleau Wood
  • Argonne Forest
  • “Big Four”
  • Fourteen Points
  • Versailles Treaty
  • Henry Cabot Lodge
  • Robert LaFollette
  • Hiram Johnson
  • “Shoeless Joe” Jackson
  • Calvin Coolidge
  • A. Mitchell Palmer
  • J. Edgar Hoover
  • James M. Cox
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Warren G. Harding

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Chapter 24: The New Era, 1920-1928

  • Henry Ford
  • Assembly Line
  • Suburbs
  • Ivy Lee
  • The Man Nobody Knows
  • Rudolph Valentino
  • KDKA
  • Jack Dempsey
  • Lou Gehrig
  • Babe Ruth
  • Negro Baseball League
  • “Smokey Joe” Williams
  • “Bullet” Joe Rogan
  • "Red" Grange
  • Helen Wills
  • Johnny Weissmuller
  • Robert and Helen Lynd
  • William Howard Taft
  • William Green
  • Flappers
  • Clara Bow
  • Margaret Sanger
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Sheppard-Towner Act
  • National Woman's Party (NWP)
  • Lost Generation
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Henry Louis Mencken
  • Sinclair Lewis
  • E. E. Cummings
  • John Dos Passos
  • Franz Boas
  • Ruth Benedict
  • Marcus Garvey
  • United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
  • Philip Randolph
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Langston Hughes
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Duke Ellington
  • Alaine Locke
  • Eugenics
  • Johnson-Reed Immigration Act
  • Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti
  • William J. Simmons
  • The Birth of the Nation
  • David Stephenson
  • John Scopes
  • Aimee Semple McPherson
  • Billy Sunday
  • Al Capone
  • George “Bugsy” Moran
  • "Speakeasies"
  • Warren G. Harding
  • "Ohio Gang"
  • Charles R. Forbes
  • Jesse Smith
  • Teapot Dome Scandal
  • Calvin Coolidge
  • Harry Daugherty
  • William Humphrey
  • Andrew Mellon
  • Herbert Hoover
  • John Davis
  • Charles W. Bryan
  • Charles Dawes
  • Robert M. La Follette
  • Charles Evans Hughes
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact
  • Dawes Plan
  • Al Smith
  • Joseph G. Robinson

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Chapter 25: "Fear Itself": Crash, Depression, and the New Deal, 1929-1938

  • Herbert Hoover
  • “Black Thursday”
  • Scottsboro Boys
  • Dust Bowl
  • Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
  • Federal Home Loan Bank Act
  • Glass-Steagall Act
  • Hoovervilles
  • Bonus Army
  • Battle of Anacostia Flats
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • Eleanor Roosevelt
  • John Nance Garner
  • First Hundred Days
  • "Bank Holiday"
  • Emergency Banking Act
  • "Fireside Chats"
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
  • Beer-Wine Revenue Act
  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
  • Public Works Administration (PWA)
  • Harold Ickes
  • Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
  • Harry Hopkins
  • Civil Works Administration (CWA)
  • Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
  • Henry A. Wallace
  • Butler v. U.S.
  • National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
  • National Recovery Administration (NRA)
  • Schechter v. U.S.
  • Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
  • Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
  • Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)
  • Father Charles Coughlin
  • Dr. Francis E. Townsend
  • Huey Long
  • Upton Sinclair
  • Floyd Olson
  • National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
  • National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
  • Social Security Act
  • Emergency Relief Appropriation Act (ERA)
  • Work Progress Administration (WPA)
  • Alfred M. Landon
  • John Maynard Keynes
  • Richard Wright
  • John Steinbeck
  • Margaret Mitchell
  • Jacob Lawrence
  • Edward Hopper
  • Fourteenth Street School of New York
  • Marion Post Wolcott
  • Dorothea Lange
  • Joe Louis
  • Jesse Owens
  • Satchel Paige
  • Josh Gibson
  • W. C. Fields
  • Will Rogers
  • Marx Brothers
  • Walt Disney
  • Frank Capra
  • The Shadow
  • Mae West
  • Hindenburg
  • John L. Lewis
  • “Big Bill” Hutcheson
  • "Sit-Down" Strikes
  • "Black Cabinet"
  • William Hastie
  • Marian Anderson
  • John Collier
  • Indian Reorganization Act
  • “Indian New Deal”
  • Frances Perkins
  • Grace Abbott
  • Molly Dewson

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Chapter 26: War and Society, 1933-1945

  • Jeanette Rankin
  • Panay Incident
  • Benito Mussolini
  • Adolph Hitler
  • Fuhrer
  • Nazis
  • Francisco Franco
  • Abraham Lincoln Battalion
  • Cordell Hull
  • "Good Neighbor" Policy
  • Road to War
  • Gerald P. Nye Committee
  • Neville Chamberlain
  • Winston Churchill
  • Blitzkrieg
  • Vichy Government
  • Wendell Willkie
  • "Lend-Lease"
  • America:country-region> First Committee
  • Charles Lindbergh
  • Atlantic Charter
  • Reuben James
  • Hideki Tojo
  • Pearl Harbor
  • War Production Board (WPB)
  • Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply (OPA)
  • Smith-Connolly Bill
  • Revenue Acts of 1942 and 1943
  • GIs
  • Operation TORCH
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Bernard Montgomery
  • Erwin Rommel
  • Casablanca Conference
  • George Patton
  • Tehran Conference
  • Operation Overlord
  • Battle of the Bulge
  • Omar Bradley
  • Kristallnacht
  • Holocaust
  • St. Louis
  • Breckinridge Long
  • Thomas Dewey
  • Harry S. Truman
  • Yalta Conference
  • Eva Braun
  • Office of War Information (OWI)
  • Elmer Davis
  • Edward R. Murrow
  • Howard K. Smith
  • Kae Smith
  • Irving Berlin
  • Captain Midnight
  • Executive Order 9066
  • Korematsu v. U.S.
  • Rosie the Riveter
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • "Double V" Campaign
  • A. Philip Randolph
  • Executive Order 8802
  • Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
  • Braceros
  • Navajo Codebreakers
  • Battle of the Coral Sea
  • Battle of Midway
  • Chester Nimitz
  • Battle of Leyte Gulf
  • Kamikazes
  • Battle of IwoJima
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • "Manhattan Project"
  • Enola Gay

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Chapter 27: The Cold War, 1945-1952

  • Josef Stalin
  • Mission to Moscow
  • “Sphere of Influence”
  • Harry Truman
  • Vyacheslav Molotov
  • Potsdam Conference
  • James Byrnes
  • Atomic Energy Commission
  • Winston Churchill
  • "Iron Curtain"
  • Arthur Vandenberg
  • George C. Marshall
  • Dean Acheson
  • George Kennan
  • Containment
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Communist Information Bureau (Cominform)
  • Jan Masaryk
  • National Security Act
  • Central Intelligence Agency
  • "Trizonia"
  • Berlin Airlift
  • Brussels Treaty
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Rio Treaty
  • Organization of American States (OAS)
  • Warsaw Pact
  • Walter Lippmann
  • Chester Bowles
  • John L. Lewis
  • Taft-Hartley Act
  • Henry Wallace
  • Thomas Dewey
  • President's Committee on Civil Rights
  • Executive Order 9981
  • Dixiecrats
  • J. Strom Thurmond
  • "Fair Deal"
  • Jiang Jieshi
  • Mao Zedong
  • Henry Luce
  • Douglas MacArthur
  • National Security Council Memorandum 68 (NSC-68)
  • Kim Il Sung
  • Syngman Rhee
  • Amerasia
  • Executive Order 9835
  • Dennis v U.S.
  • Whittaker Chambers
  • Alger Hiss
  • Richard Nixon
  • “Pumpkin Papers”
  • Klaus Fuchs
  • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
  • House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
  • "Hollywood Ten"
  • Internal Security Act of 1950
  • Joseph McCarthy
  • Millard Tydings

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Chapter 28: The Consumer Society, 1945-1960

  • "Baby Boom"
  • GI Bill
  • Jonas Salk
  • William Levitt
  • Mark I Computer
  • AFL-CIO
  • George Meany
  • Walter Reuther
  • Interstate Highway Act
  • Fulton J. Sheen
  • Norman Vincent Peale
  • Billy Graham
  • Will Herberg
  • J. D. Salinger
  • James Dean
  • Dick Clark
  • Alan Freed
  • Elvis Aaron Presley
  • Antoine "Fats" Domino
  • Chuck Berry
  • The Lonely Crowd
  • C. Wright Mills
  • Why Johnny Can't Read
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Robert Taft
  • Adlai Stevenson
  • John Sparkman
  • Richard Nixon
  • Checkers
  • "Dynamic Conservatism"
  • Submerged Lands Act
  • Joseph McCarthy
  • Joseph Welch
  • John Foster Dulles
  • "Brinkmanship"
  • Allen Dulles
  • Nikita Khrushchev
  • "Open Skies" Proposal
  • Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Eisenhower Doctrine
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • Dien Bien Phu
  • Geneva Accords
  • Ngo Dinh Diem
  • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
  • Jacob Arbenz Guzman
  • The End of Ideology
  • Alfred Kinsey
  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
  • Southern Manifesto
  • Little Rock Central High School
  • Emmett Till
  • Rosa Parks
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • American GI Forum
  • Hector Perez
  • Sputnik
  • Gary Powers
  • Fulgencio Batistia
  • Fidel Castro
  • The Affluent Society
  • National Defense Education Act (NDEA)
  • Henry Cabot Lodge
  • Richard Nixon
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Lyndon B. Johnson

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Chapter 29: Consensus and Confrontation, 1960-1968

  • John F. Kennedy
  • "New Frontier"
  • “The Best and the Brightest”
  • McGeorge Bundy
  • Dean Rusk
  • "Flexible Response"
  • Alliance for Progress
  • Bay of Pigs
  • Robert Kennedy
  • Ngo Dinh Diem
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • Vietcong
  • Lyman L. Lemnitzer
  • George Ball
  • Lee Harvey Oswald
  • Warren Commission
  • Lyndon Baines Johnson
  • "War on Poverty"
  • Michael Harrington
  • The Other America:country-region>
  • Walter Heller
  • Economic Opportunity Act
  • VISTA
  • Job Corps
  • R. Sargent Shriver
  • Barry Goldwater
  • "Great Society"
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Elementary and Secondary Education Act
  • Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
  • Lady Bird Johnson
  • Earl Warren
  • Engel v. Vitale
  • Griswold v. Connecticut
  • Reynolds v. Sims
  • Gideon v. Wainwright
  • Escobedo v. Illinois
  • Miranda v. Arizona
  • Sit-Ins
  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
  • Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
  • "Freedom Riders"
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • James Meredith
  • "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
  • George Wallace
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)
  • Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965
  • Tonkin Gulf Resolution
  • C. Turner Joy
  • Maddox
  • Operation Rolling Thunder
  • Robert McNamara
  • William Westmoreland
  • My Lai
  • Lt. William L. Calley
  • John Kerry
  • Jack Kerouac
  • Beat
  • Allen Ginsberg
  • Counterculture Movement
  • Timothy Leary
  • Bob Dylan
  • The Beatles
  • “New Left”
  • The Port Huron Statement
  • William F. Buckley
  • J. W. Fulbright
  • Watts Riots
  • “Long Hot Summers”
  • “Black Power”
  • Stokely Carmichael
  • Malcolm X
  • Tet Offensive
  • Eugene McCarthy
  • Hubert Humphrey
  • Edmund Muskie
  • Richard Nixon

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Chapter 30: The Politics of Polarization, 1969-1979

  • Henry Kissinger
  • William Rogers
  • Realpolitik
  • Vietnamization
  • The “Madman Theory"
  • Khmer Rouge
  • Kent State University
  • The Pentagon Papers
  • Daniel Ellsberg
  • Operation Linebacker
  • Le Duc Tho
  • Nguyen Van Thieu
  • Paris Peace Accords
  • "Peace with Honor"
  • Detente
  • Leonid Brezhnev
  • Zhou Enlai
  • Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
  • Shah of Iran:country-region>
  • Ferdinand Marcos
  • Salvador Allende
  • Augusto Pinochet
  • Six-Day War
  • Yom Kippur War
  • PLO
  • Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
  • "Shuttle Diplomacy"
  • "Silent Majority"
  • Richard Nixon
  • "New Federalism"
  • Apollo 11
  • Neil Armstrong
  • Buzz Aldrin
  • John Lindsay
  • Chicago Eight
  • Warren Burger
  • Clement Haynsworth
  • G. Harrold Carswell
  • Spiro Agnew
  • George McGovern
  • Watergate
  • James McCord
  • Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP)
  • John Sirica
  • Sam Ervin
  • “The Plumbers”
  • John Dean
  • Archibald Cox
  • Elliot Richardson
  • William Ruckelshaus
  • Robert H. Bork
  • Leon Jaworski
  • Gerald R. Ford
  • H. R. Haldemann
  • Rosemary Woods
  • Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
  • Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
  • Bakke v. University of California
  • Milliken v. Bradley
  • Cesar Chavez
  • American Indian Movement (AIM)
  • Chicano
  • Stonewall Inn Riot
  • The Feminine Mystique
  • National Organization for Women (NOW)
  • Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
  • Title IX of the Higher Education Act
  • Phyllis Schlafly
  • "Feminization of Poverty"
  • "Me Decade"
  • Disco Music
  • War Powers Act
  • Federal Election Campaign Act
  • Stagflation
  • Rachel Carson
  • Love Canal
  • Three Mile Island
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Paul Volcker
  • Camp David Accords
  • Ayatollah Khomeini

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Chapter 31: The Reagan Experiment, 1979-1988

  • Donald Trump
  • Jerry Falwell
  • Pat Robertson
  • Moral Majority
  • California Proposition 13
  • Arthur Laffer
  • Neoconservatives
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Edward Kennedy
  • Ronald Reagan
  • George Bush
  • John Anderson
  • White House Task Force Report on the Family
  • Norman Lear
  • People for the American Way
  • Faye Wattleton
  • The Silent Scream
  • Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
  • ACT UP
  • And the Band Played On
  • The Normal Heart
  • C. Everett Koop
  • Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)
  • "English-Only" Movement
  • Allan Bloom
  • Nancy Reagan
  • James G. Watt
  • Charles Keating
  • Sandra Day O'Connor
  • William Rehnquist
  • Louis Powell
  • Robert Bork
  • Wards Cove v. Atonio
  • Walter Mondale
  • Geraldine Ferraro
  • George Shultz
  • Caspar Weinberger
  • Richard Allen
  • Jeanne Kirkpatrick
  • Apartheid
  • “Zero Option”
  • Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START)
  • “Evil Empire”
  • Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Perestroika
  • Glasnost
  • Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
  • Jose Napoleon Duarte
  • Anastasio Somoza
  • Contras
  • Boland Amendment
  • Muammar Qaddafi
  • Robert McFarlane
  • William Casey
  • Oliver North
  • Lawrence E. Walsh
  • John Poindexter
  • Ivan Boesky
  • Michael Milken
  • Yuppies
  • Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO)

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Chapter 32: America After the Cold War, 1988-2000

  • George Bush
  • Bob Dole
  • Dan Quayle
  • Michael Dukakis
  • Jesse Jackson
  • Lloyd Bentsen
  • LechWalesa
  • Vaclav Havel
  • "Velvet Revolution"
  • Berlin Wall
  • Boris Yeltsin
  • START II
  • F. W. De Klerk
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Augusto Pinochet
  • Patricio Aylwin
  • Jean-Bertrand Aristide
  • Daniel Ortega
  • Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
  • Manuel Noriega
  • Operation Just Cause
  • Yasir Arafat
  • Yitzhak Rabin
  • James A. Baker III
  • Tiananmen Square
  • Saddam Hussein
  • H. Norman Schwarzkopf
  • Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Exxon Valdez
  • "Earth Summit"
  • Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
  • Clarence Thomas
  • Anita Hill
  • Rodney King
  • Bill Clinton
  • Al Gore
  • H. Ross Perot
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton
  • "Whitewater"
  • Newt Gingrich
  • Robert Dole
  • Jack Kemp
  • "Contract with America:country-region>"
  • Operation Restore Hope
  • Monica Lewinsky
  • Robert Livingston
  • Kenneth Starr
  • Joseph Lieberman
  • George W. Bush
  • Richard Cheney
  • Ralph Nader
  • ENIAC
  • Steve Wozniak
  • Internet
  • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
  • General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
  • Slobodan Milosevic
  • Osama bin Laden
  • al Qaeda
  • U.S.S. Cole
  • Timothy McVeigh
  • Columbine High School
  • Ice Cube
  • Queen Latifah
  • Will Smith
  • O. J. Simpson

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Chapter 33: Epilogue: The Challenges of the New Century

  • George W. Bush
  • Colin Powell
  • Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
  • Saddam Hussein
  • World Trade Center
  • Condoleezza Rice
  • Osama bin Laden
  • Taliban
  • Ground Zero
  • “Shock and Awe”
  • Operation Iraqi Freedom
  • David Key
  • Kyoto Protocol
  • Strategic Defense Initiative
  • Ten-Year Tax-Cut Package
  • Department of Homeland Security
  • “Sleeper Agents”
  • John Ashcroft
  • “Knowledge Work”
  • Enron

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