APUSH 1

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BENEDICT ARNOLD

Traitor during the American Revolution that tried to give away West Point to the British.

ADAMS

The first family to have two Presidents.

DEAN ACHESON

Secretary of State under Truman that formulated the Far East policy as a precursor to the containment policy.

AFL-CIO

The labor union of Samuel Gompers.

AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT (AAA)

New Deal program that was so controversial because it required the burning of crops.

JANE ADDAMS

The Nobel Prize winner for the formation of settlement houses during the early 1900s.

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

The issue at the heart of the Bakke v. Regents of the University of California decision.

AIRLIFT

The solution in Berlin when the Soviets blockaded the city of West Berlin after WWII.

ALAMO

"Remember the " - Battle cry during the War for Texas Independence.

STEPHEN F. AUSTIN

Leader in Texas from Missouri who became a revolutionary leader during the Independence war and then served as a government official there.

ANNEXATION

The act of adding on a territory to the U.S.

AXIS

Germany, Italy, Japan

ALBANY PLAN

1754 meeting attempting to unite the colonies.

APOLLO

The mission that landed successfully on the moon

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Female leader of the suffragette movement who used civil disobedience as a tool for societal change.

ABOLITION

The movement to end slavery in the U.S.

ALLIED POWERS

Great Britain, France, China, USSR, USA

AMERICAN PARTY

The "Know Nothing" Party was known as this.

APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE

Lee surrendered to Grant here.

NEIL ARMSTRONG

Quoted as saying "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for humanity."

BARBARY STATES

Thomas Jefferson needed to bolster the U.S. navy thanks to these pesky people around the Mediterranean.

BEATNIKS

Jack Kerouac and other writers during the 1950s were leaders of this movement.

BEECHER

Lyman, Harriet, Henry Ward (family)

BAY OF PIGS

Failed invasion of Cuba

BERLIN

Disputed city during the Cold War

BIG THREE

Churchill, FDR, Stalin @ Yalta and Tehran in WWII

BLOCKADE

What the US navy has done to the South during the Civil War and to Cuba during the missile crisis, amongst others.

BIG STICK

"Speak softly and carry a "

BLACK CODES

Precursor to the Jim Crow laws in the south.

BOLSHEVIKS

The Red Scare in America during the 1920s was a fear of a revolution of Lenin supporters, better known as

LOUIS BRANEIS

First Jewish Supreme Court justice

James BUCHANAN

The President from Pennsylvania that failed to avoid the Civil War.

BOSTON MASSACRE

Event in March of 1770 when colonists lost their lives.

BLACKLIST

What communists might find their names on during the 1950s and the age of McCarthy.

BLOODY BLEEDING KANSAS

What the territory of Kansas was known as in 1857

BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION

De-Segregated the public schools in 1954

BROOKLYN DODGERS

Team that signed Jackie Robinson in 1947

BUFFALO SOLDIERS

What black soldiers were known as during the Indian wars and the Spanish-American War.

BUNKER HILL

Battle just outside of Boston during the American Revolution that the British "won" but with catastrophic casualty figures.

CAMP DAVID

The Presidential retreat that was utilized for the Accords between Israel and Egypt.

Jimmy CARTER

President who helped to negotiate the Accords above.

CHEROKEE

The tribe in the Five Civilized tribes that had developed a written version of their language in order to assimilate. They were still removed.

STOKELY CARMICHAEL

African American civil rights leader who advocated violent response to police brutality and other injustices during the 1960s.

CESSION

Territory added to the U.S. after the Mexican War. (CALIFORNIA)

CANADA

The British territory that was invaded by the U.S. in both the American Revolution and the War of 1812. Both invasions failed.

CHIEF JOSEPH

Leader of the Nez Perce tribe in the late 1800s

CHINA

1882 Act of Congress that limited immigration from here.

Common SENSE

Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet during the American Revolution and it convinced many people to accept independence.

CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS (CCC)

Franklin Roosevelt's program to maintain beaches, national parks, and other areas by moving young men out of the cities.

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

Knowingly breaking a law that one feels is unjust.

HENRY CLAY

The Kentucky man that promoted the American System

JOHN C. CALHOUN

The South Carolina senator that was the outspoken voice for slavery and nullification (when he was Andrew Jackson's VP)

LORD CORNWALLIS

Losing British general at the Battle of Yorktown.

CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

Thirteen day standoff between the USSR and the USA over nuclear warheads.

FIDEL CASTRO

Leader of the island nation where the USSR placed the weapons.

COTTON

The king of all southern crops prior to the Civil War.

CONTAINMENT

Truman's Cold War policy from the Truman Doctrine.

CROSS OF GOLD

Famous speech given by William Jennings Bryan in 1896.

CHARLES DARWIN

Author of the "Origin of the Species" - subject of the Scopes Monkey Trial in the 1920s.

DEBT

Alexander Hamilton's financial plans during the Washington administration were an attempt to eliminate this.

DUST BOWL

Farming issue of the 1930s that made the Great Depression that much worse from 1933-1936.

Dow JONES

The measurement of the strength of the stock market is called this (it was the average of major stock prices).

NGO DINH DIEM

Leader of South Vietnam supported by the US until his assassination.

THOMAS DEWEY

Loser of the 1948 election to Truman, even though some newspapers said he had won the election.

DESERT Fox

Nickname of the German Gen. Rommel.

DUTCH

The people who had settled New Amsterdam (New York)

WEB DUBOIS

African-American leader of the Niagara Movement and NAACP

DEMOCRAT

Political Party of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Area that received 3 electoral college votes with the 23rd amendment (DC)

DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN

Political party/ideology of Thomas Jefferson.

DALLAS

City where Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.

DEIST

Religious belief structure of Franklin and Jefferson.

EUGENE V. DEBS

Labor leader of the IWW who was a devout socialist who ran unsuccessfully for President 5 times (from prison in 1920)

EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT

The amendment that outlawed the sale of alcohol.

EXODUSTERS

A freed slave that moved west to farm after emancipation.

EMBARGO

The Jefferson/Madison plan to avoid conflict with France and England by refusing to trade with either nation while at war - enraged the North.

ELECTORAL College

The group that officially votes in the President of the US.

ENVIRONMENT

Rachel Carson was an influential leader in the quest to protect this when she published books and went on speaking tours in the 1970s.

ERA OF GOOD FEELING

James Monroe's administration was known by this thanks to a New England newspaper reporting of his trip through the region.

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

The act of Lincoln to free the slaves after the Battle of Antietam in 1862.

THOMAS EDISON

The holder of the most patents in US history.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

General during WWII who became President in 1952.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Transcendentalist writer of the essay "Self Reliance"

FAIR DEAL

Truman's domestic agenda that looked to improve upon areas left out of FDR's New Deal programs post-WWII.

ALBERT FALL

Harding's Secretary of the Interior who went to prison for the Teapot Dome Scandal.

FRENCH + INDIAN WAR

1754-1763 Conflict in North America

FRONTIER

Frederick Jackson Turner believed this is where true democracy and American principles were renewed and redefined.

FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

Controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 that required the return of slaves who had escaped to the North.

FAREWELL ADDRESS

George Washington warned about entangling alliances and political parties in this speech, actually written by Alexander Hamilton.

FDIC

Program in the New Deal designed to insure banks.

FDR

Three letter abbreviation for our 32nd President.

FLORIDA

Territory acquired from Spain in the Adams-Onis Treaty

FEDERAL RESERVE

Monetary balancing program/system brought into existence during the Wilson administration

HENRY FORD

$5 work day and assembly line were his contributions

FEDERALIST

Washington, Adams, Hamilton - all would have been considered this type of ideology in the Early Republic.

4 FREEDOMS

Roosevelt referred to these (speech, worship, want, fear)

BETTY FRIEDAN

Author of "The Feminine Mystique" during the women's rights movement of the 1950s.

FREEDMAN'S BUREAU

Reconstruction era program designed to get land and jobs for freed slaves - failed due to rampant corruption

FUR

The main industry that brought the French to Canada.

FOURTEEN POINTS

Wilson's peace plan following WWI - rejected except one.