| A | B |
|---|
| Alfred T. Mahan | argued that the United States should build up its navy |
| Hawaii | ideal navy base and coaling station |
| coaling stations | needed by the steam powered steel navy of Alfred T. Mahan |
| resources, cultural superiority and markets | reasons for US imperialism in the 1890s |
| William Howard Taft | attacked trusts (true trust buster) |
| Sherman Antritrust Act | used by Progressives to attack monopolies |
| Meat Inspection Act | Progressive law that resulted from publication of "The Jungle" |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | Progressive Law about labeling |
| Yellow Journalism | influenced US entry into Spanish American War |
| Platt Amendment | Cuba to allow American control of its foreign policy |
| Marcus Garvey | UNIA- Back to Africa |
| WEB Dubois | Niagara Program, NAACP |
| Booker T. Washington | gradual integration, Tuskeegee Institute |
| Niagara Progam | WEB Dubois talented tenth program |
| Hudson River School | landscapes and nationalism |
| NATO | collective security against communism |
| containment | US policy to prevent the spread of Communism |
| Truman Doctrine | containment in Greece and Turkey |
| Susan B. Anthony | suffrage, pushed for 19th Amendment |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | president of NWSA when 19th Amendment passed |
| suffrage | women's right to vote |
| Horace Mann | public education reform |
| island hopping | U.S. Pacific strategy- WWII |
| Anaconda | Northern strategy in Civil War |
| Midway | Pacific turning point, stopped Japanese expansion |
| Coral Sea | stopped Japanese invasion of Australia |
| TVA | New Deal- water and electricity for poor Southeast |
| speculation | helped cause stock market crash in 1929 |
| buying on margin | helped cause Black Tuesday, buying stock on credit |
| Haymarket Affair | violent episode that caused unions to lose support |
| Knights of Labor | first national labor union, lost strength after AFL established |
| AFL | believed in strikes, collective bargaining and organizing-Samuel Gompers |
| Marshall Plan | economic aid to Europe to contain communism |
| collective security | alliances like NATO and SEATO led by US to contain communsim |
| graying of America | aging-strain on Social Security, Medicare |
| Social Security | New Deal program, longest lasting, New Deal |
| Carter events | Camp David, Olympic Boycott, Iran hostage crisis |
| Clinton events | dot com boom, stopped Bosnia genocide, impeachment |
| Nixon | Watergate, tapes |
| Fredrick Jackson Turner | frontier thesis, frontier is closed 1890 |
| boomer Sooner | land rush in Oklahoma in 1890 (only free land left) |
| suburbs | grew in the 1950s, symbol of prosperity and conformity |
| radio | major part of 1920s culture |
| Bosnia | NATO and Clinton administration stop genocide |
| Desert Storm | UN and George Bush I kicked Saddam Hussein's troops out of Kuwait |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Factory | fire here led to workplace safety reform |
| Louisiana Purchase | Jefferson went against his strict constructionist beliefs |
| strict construction | states rights, nullification, Democratic Republicans |
| loose construction | elastic clause, Used by Federalists to strenghten centeral government |
| Marshall Court | strengthened federal government |
| Warren Court | civil rights, strengthened individual rights |
| Eisenhower | interstate highway system, reluctant to work on civil rights |
| Indian Removal Act | Andrew Jackson, Trail of Tears |
| scalawags | Southern Republicans after Civil War |
| carpetbagger | northern Republicans who came South after the Civil War |
| nullification | Alien and Sedition Acts, Tariff of Abominations crisis |
| Protective Tariffs | hated by Southerners loved by manufacturers |
| debt, unfair railroad practices, overproduction | problems of farmers |
| Populists, Grangers | formed to deal with farmer debt |
| Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | first example of nullification, reaction to Alien and Sedition Acts |
| impressment | helped cause War of 1812 |
| interference with US commerce | helped cause War of 1812 and led to US entry into WWII |
| War of 1812 | impressment, freedom of Seas, Chesapeake incident, War Hawks |
| Missouri Compromise | balance in Senate |
| Dawes Act | assimilation, 160 acres to Native Americans |
| barbed wire | helped end the cattle kingdom |
| Tet Offensive | led to US leaving Vietnam, 1968 |
| undelcared wars | Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom |
| Whiskey Rebellion | established federal authority in the states; Western Pennsylvania |
| steam powered navy | Alfred T. Mahan, neeed coaling stations on islands |
| Title IX | women in athletics |
| ERA | tried to eliminate discrimination based on gender |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | led to US involvment in Vietnam |
| court packing | FDR planned to add justices to the court after defeat of first New Deal |
| dumbbell tenements | for poor people, cheap and efficient use of space |
| row houses | middle class housing in cities |
| robber barons | super rich of the gilded age |
| JP Morgan | banking |
| John D. Rockefeller | Oil |
| Andrew Carnegie | steel |
| James B. Duke | Tobacco |
| Three Mile Island | nuclear accident in Pennsylvania |
| Chernobyl | nuclear accident in the Ukraine |
| Iran hostage crisis | hurt the Carter presidency |
| Israel | established by UN in 1947 for Holocaust survivors |
| Arab Israeli Wars | caused OPEC hostility toward US |
| Pendleton Act | ended spoils system, sympathy for Garfield |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | containment in the Middle East |
| transcontinental railroad | build by Chinese and Irish, speeded settelment of West |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | symptom of nativism; 1882 |
| nativism | against immigrants; Know Nothings |
| Know Nothings | nativist party 1850s; aka American Party |
| California gold rush | population boom in California, caused much crime |
| Seneca Falls | suffrage, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Camp David | Carter; peace between Egypt and Israel |
| atomic bomb | Truman; to end WWII against Japan quickly |
| Trickle Down economics | Ronald Reagan; Herbert Hoover |
| McCarthyism | people falsely accused of being communists |
| HUAC | Hollywood Ten; witch hunts |
| Tecumseh | tried to unite Indians against white settlement |
| Custer | killed at Little Big Horn 1876 |
| Wounded Knee | 1890 ended Indian Wars on Plains |
| Teapot Dome | scandal; oil lands; Harding administration |
| Whiskey Ring; Credit Mobilier | Grand Administration scandals |
| Compromise of 1877 | withdrawl of troops from South; end of Reconstruction |
| Election of 1800 | first peaceful transfer of power |
| XYZ affair | led to the quasi war with France |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | aimed at Jeffersonian Republicans; to silence critics of government |
| Schenck v. United States | US has wartime powers to limit civil liberties (freedom of speech) |
| Korematsu v. United States | Japanese Americans in internment camps in WWII |
| 26th Amendment | right to vote for 18 year olds |
| Emancipation Proclamation | freed slaves in Confederates states only, kept Britain out of the Civil War |
| Lowell Experiment | Yankee girls, textiles |
| electricity | allowed factories to locate away from rivers |
| water power | powered early industrial sites |
| light bulbs | increased productivity by allowing work to go on 24 hours a day |
| dark til dark | work day of early America |
| Bessemer Process | huge amounts of cheap steel |
| cheap steel | skyscrapers |
| skyscrapers | cheap steel and elevators |
| invented the elevator | Otis |
| Cities expanded up and out | Bessemer Process for making steel |
