5 Steps to a 5 AP U.S. History Practice Plan
1st Edition
Published on 5. April 2013
1754 pages
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Get ready for your AP exam with this straightforward and easy-to-follow study guide, updated for all the latest exam changes! 5 Steps to a 5: AP U.S. History features an effective, 5-step plan to guide your preparation program and help you build the skills, knowledge, and test-taking confidence you need to succeed. This fully revised edition covers the latest course syllabus and provides model tests that reflect the latest version of the exam.Inside you will find:5-Step Plan to a Perfect 5: 1. Set Up Your Study Program 2. Determine Your Test Readiness 3. Develop Strategies for Success 4. Develop the Knowledge You Need to Score High 5. Build Your Test-Taking Confidence2 complete practice AP U.S. History examsInteractive practice AP exams for download3 separate plans to fit your study styleReview material updated and geared to the most recent testsSavvy information on how tests are constructed, scored, and used
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Section I: 5 Steps to a 5 AP US History 2012-2013 Edition
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The 5-Step Program
- Step 1 Set Up Your Study Program
- Chapter 1 What You Need to Know About the AP U.S. History Exam
- Background of the Advanced Placement Program
- Questions Frequently Asked About the AP U.S. History Exam
- Chapter 2 How to Plan Your Time
- Three Approaches to Preparing for the AP U.S. History Exam
- Calendar for Each Plan
- Step 2 Determine Your Test Readiness
- Chapter 3 Take a Diagnostic Exam
- How and When to Use the Diagnostic Exam
- Conclusion (After the Exam)
- Getting Started: The Diagnostic/Master Exam
- Answers to Diagnostic/Master Exam
- Step 3 Develop Strategies for Success
- Chapter 4 How to Approach Each Question Type
- Multiple-Choice Questions
- Document-Based Essay Questions
- Free-Response Essay Questions
- Reading and Interpreting Primary Source Documents
- Analyzing Primary Source Documents
- Step 4 Review the Knowledge You Need to Score High
- Chapter 5 The Settling of the Western Hemisphere and Colonial America (1450-1650)
- Native Americans and European Exploration
- The French in Canada
- The English in the Americas
- Effects of English, French, and British Settlement
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 6 The British Empire in America: Growth and Conflict (1650-1750)
- The Impact of Mercantilism
- African Slavery in the Americas
- Continued Unrest in New England
- The Salem Witch Trials
- Wars in Europe and Their Impact on the Colonies
- The Growth of the Colonial Assemblies
- The Era of "Salutary Neglect"
- The Great Awakening
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 7 Resistance, Rebellion, and Revolution (1750-1775)
- Problems on the Frontier
- Additional Conflicts Between the British and Their Colonial "Allies"
- The Policies of George Grenville
- A Sense of Crisis: The Stamp Act
- More Protest: The Townshend Acts
- Continued Tension in Massachusetts
- The Calm Before the Storm: 1770-1773
- The Boston Tea Party
- The Intolerable Acts
- The First Continental Congress
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 8 The American Revolution and the New Nation (1775-1787)
- The American Revolution
- The Second Continental Congress
- The Declaration of Independence
- The Outbreak of the Revolution: Divisions in the Colonies
- Strategies of the American Revolution
- Washington as Commander
- The War Moves to the South
- The Treaty of Paris
- The Establishment of Governmental Structures in the New Nation
- The Articles of Confederation
- The Northwest Ordinances
- Shays's Rebellion
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 9 The Establishment of New Political Systems (1787-1800)
- Desire for a Stronger Central Government
- Government Under the New Constitution
- The Issue of Slavery
- Ratification of the Constitution
- The Presidency of George Washington
- The Bill of Rights
- Competing Visions: Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson
- The French Revolution
- Foreign Policy and Jay's Treaty
- Washington's Farewell Address
- The Presidency of John Adams
- The Alien and Sedition Acts
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 10 The Jeffersonian Revolution (1800-1820)
- The Election of 1800
- Reform of the Courts
- Westward Expansion
- Political Tensions and the Strange Case of Aaron Burr
- European Wars Spill Over to America (Again)
- The War of 1812
- The American System
- The Missouri Compromise
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 11 The Rise of Manufacturing and the Age of Jackson (1820-1845)
- The Growth of the Factory
- The Monroe Doctrine
- Policy Toward Native Americans
- The Second Great Awakening
- Political Reform: The Jacksonian Era (1829-1841)
- The Election of 1824
- The 1828 Presidential Election
- Jackson as President
- The Nullification Controversy
- The Bank Crisis
- The Whig Party: A Challenge to the Democratic-Republicans
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 12 The Union Expanded and Challenged (1835-1860)
- The Ideology of Manifest Destiny
- "Remember the Alamo!"
- The Pivotal Election of 1844
- War with Mexico
- Political Challenges of the 1850s
- Effects of the Compromise of 1850
- The Presidency of Franklin Pierce
- The Return of Sectional Conflict
- "Bleeding Kansas": Slave or Free?
- The Dred Scott Decision
- The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- John Brown's Raid
- The Presidential Election of 1860
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 13 The Union Divided: The Civil War (1861-1865)
- Advantages of the North and South in the War
- The Attack on Fort Sumter and the Beginning of the War
- War Aims and Strategies
- Developments in the South and in the North
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- 1863: The War Tips to the North
- War Weariness in the North and South
- The End of the Confederacy
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 14 The Era of Reconstruction (1865-1877)
- Lincoln's Plans for Reconstruction
- Andrew Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction
- The Reconstruction Programs of the Radical Republicans
- A Period of Radical Reconstruction
- The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- Radical Reconstruction Reinforced
- The End of Reconstruction
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 15 Western Expansion and Its Impact on the American Character (1860-1895)
- Federal Legislation Encourages Western Settlement
- Farming on the Great Plains
- The Transformation of Agriculture on the Plains
- Women and Minorities on the Plains
- Mining and Lumbering in the West
- Ranching in the West
- The Plight of Native Americans
- The Organization of the American Farmer and Populism
- The Impact of the West on American Society
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 16 America Transformed into the Industrial Giant of the World (1870-1910)
- The Growth of Industrial America
- The Changing Nature of American Industry
- The Consolidation of Businesses
- The Growth of Labor Unions
- An Improved Standard of Living?
- The Impact of Immigration on American Society
- The Transformation of the American City
- Politics of the Gilded Age
- Cultural Life in the Gilded Age
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 17 The Rise of American Imperialism (1890-1913)
- A Period of Foreign Policy Inaction
- A Sign of Things to Come: Hawaii
- The 1890s: Reasons for American Imperialism
- The Spanish-American War
- The Role of America: Protector or Oppressor?
- The Debate Over the Philippines
- Connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic: The Panama Canal
- The Roosevelt Corollary
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 18 The Progressive Era (1895-1914)
- The Origins of Progressivism
- The Goals of Progressives
- Urban Reforms
- The Progressives at the State Level
- Women and Progressivism
- Reforming the Workplace
- The Square Deal of Theodore Roosevelt
- Progressivism Under William Howard Taft
- The 1912 Presidential Election
- The Progressive Legacy of Woodrow Wilson
- Did Progressivism Succeed?
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 19 The United States and World War I (1914-1921)
- The American Response to the Outbreak of War
- Increasing American Support for the Allied Powers
- America Moves Toward War
- America Enters the War
- The Impact of the American Expeditionary Force
- The Home Front During World War I
- Keeping America Patriotic
- Woodrow Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles
- The United States and the Middle East
- The Treaty of Versailles and the United States Senate
- The Consequences of American Actions After the War
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 20 The Beginning of Modern America: The 1920s
- A Decade of Prosperity
- Republican Leadership in the 1920s
- The Presidency of Warren G. Harding
- The Scandals of the Harding Administration
- The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge
- The Election of 1928
- Urban vs. Rural: The Great Divide of the 1920s
- Culture in the 1920s
- The Jazz Age
- The Lost Generation
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 21 The Great Depression and the New Deal (1929-1939)
- The American Economy of the 1920s: The Roots of the Great Depression
- The Stock Market Crash
- The Social Impact of the Great Depression
- The Hoover Administration and the Depression
- The 1932 Presidential Election
- The First Hundred Days
- The Second New Deal
- The Presidential Election of 1936
- Opponents of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal
- The Last Years of the New Deal
- The Effects of the New Deal
- New Deal Culture
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 22 World War II (1933-1945)
- American Foreign Policy in the 1930s
- The United States and the Middle East in the Interwar Era
- The Presidential Election of 1940 and Its Aftermath
- The Attack on Pearl Harbor
- America Enters the War
- The Role of the Middle East in World War II
- The War Against Japan
- The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
- The Home Front During the War
- Discrimination During the War
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 23 The Origins of the Cold War (1945-1960)
- The First Cracks in the Alliance: 1945
- The Iron Curtain
- The Marshall Plan
- Berlin: The First Cold War Crisis
- 1949: A Pivotal Year in the Cold War
- The Middle East in the Early Years of the Cold War
- The Cold War at Home
- The Heating of the Cold War: Korea
- The Rise of McCarthyism
- The Cold War Policies of President Eisenhower
- A Dangerous Arms Buildup
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 24 Prosperity and Anxiety: The 1950s
- Economic Growth and Prosperity
- Political Developments of the Postwar Era
- Civil Rights Struggles of the Postwar Period
- The Conformity of the Suburbs
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 25 America in an Era of Turmoil (1960-1975)
- The 1960 Presidential Election
- Domestic Policies Under Kennedy and Johnson
- The Struggle of Black Americans: From Nonviolence to Black Power
- The Rise of Feminism
- The Cold War in the 1960s
- The Vietnam War and Its Impact on American Society
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 26 Decline and Rebirth (1968-1988)
- The Presidency of Richard Nixon
- The Watergate Affair
- The Presidency of Gerald Ford
- The Presidency of Jimmy Carter
- The Election of 1980
- The Presidency of Ronald Reagan
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 27 Prosperity and a New World Order (1988-2000)
- The 1988 Election
- The Presidency of George Bush
- The 1992 Election
- The Presidency of Bill Clinton
- The 2000 Presidential Election
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 28 The Threat of Terrorism, the Increase of Presidential Power, and Potential Economic Disasters (2001-2010)
- 9/11 and Its Aftermath
- Events Leading Up to the American Invasion of Iraq
- Operation Iraqi Freedom
- The Effects of the War at Home
- The Victory of Conservatism in the Bush Era
- The United States in Transition: 2007-2008
- The Obama Presidency
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 29 Contemporary America: Evaluating the "Big Themes"
- Step 5 Build Your Test-Taking Confidence
- AP U.S. History Practice Exam 1
- AP U.S. History Practice Exam 2
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Websites
- Section II: 5 Steps to a 5 AP U.S. History Flashcards
- Introduction
- Term
- Inca Empire
- Astrolabe
- Aztecs
- Crusades
- Hunter-Gatherers
- Huguenots
- Jesuits
- Franciscans
- Puritans
- Church of England
- Calvinism
- Separatists
- London Company
- Powhatan Confederacy
- Indentured Servitude
- Samuel de Champlain
- John Winthrop
- Anne Hutchinson
- Mercantilism
- Navigation Acts
- Dominion of New England
- Triangular Trade System
- Middle Passage
- Stono Rebellion
- Glorious Revolution
- Salem Witch Trials
- King William's War
- Queen Anne's War
- Proprietorships
- Colonial Assemblies
- Salutary Neglect
- Molasses Act
- Great Awakening
- Slavery
- Nathaniel Bacon
- Deerfield Raid
- George Whitefield
- Albany Congress
- French and Indian War
- Currency Act
- Sugar Act
- Stamp Act
- Quartering Act
- Sons of Liberty
- Stamp Act Congress
- Declaratory Act
- Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Townshend Acts
- Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
- Circular Letter
- Boston Massacre
- Committees of Correspondence
- Tea Act
- Boston Tea Party
- Intolerable Acts
- Declaration of Rights and Grievances
- Suffolk Resolves
- Treaty of Paris, 1763
- Edward Braddock
- Patrick Henry
- Samuel Adams
- Lexington
- Battle of Concord
- Second Continental Congress
- Common Sense
- Loyalists
- Enlightenment
- Bunker Hill
- Battle of Trenton
- Hessians
- Valley Forge
- Battle of Yorktown
- Bicameral Legislature
- Articles of Confederation
- Unicameral Legislature
- Committee of Thirteen
- Continentals
- Northwest Ordinances
- Declaration of Independence
- Battle of Saratoga
- Treaty of Paris, 1783
- Virginia Plan
- Proportional Representation
- New Jersey Plan
- Great Compromise
- Electoral College
- Three-Fifths Compromise
- Ratifying Conventions
- Federalists
- Anti-Federalists
- Bill of Rights
- Free Trade
- Democratic-Republicans
- Laissez-faire Economic Principles
- Report on the Public Credit
- National Bank
- Declaration of Neutrality
- Whiskey Rebellion
- Jay's Treaty
- Alien and Sedition Acts
- Kentucky and Virginia Resolves
- Benjamin Franklin
- George Washington
- Alexander Hamilton
- XYZ Affair
- Twelfth Amendment
- Judiciary Act
- "Midnight Appointments"
- Marbury v. Madison
- Judicial Review
- Louisiana Purchase
- Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Essex Junto
- Impressment
- Embargo of 1807
- Non-Intercourse Act
- Treaty of Ghent
- Hartford Convention
- Nullification
- Secession
- Era of Good Feelings
- American System
- Second National Bank
- Tariff of 1816
- Thomas Jefferson
- James Madison
- Tecumseh
- "War Hawks"
- Putting-Out System
- Lowell System
- Labor Movement
- Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
- Removal Act of 1830
- Trail of Tears
- Second Great Awakening
- Revival Meetings
- Temperance Movement
- Abolitionist Movement
- The Liberator
- American Colonization Society
- Democratic Party
- Kitchen Cabinet
- Spoils System
- Webster-Hayne Debate
- Force Act
- Bank War
- Panic of 1837
- Whig Party
- Monroe Doctrine
- Frederick Douglass
- Andrew Jackson
- John Marshall
- Panic of 1819
- Manifest Destiny
- Oregon Trail
- Oregon Treaty
- Dark Horse Candidate
- Bear Flag Republic
- Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
- Wilmot Proviso
- Missouri Compromise
- Free-Soil Party
- Compromise of 1850
- Fugitive Slave Act
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Gadsden Purchase
- Know-Nothing Party
- Nativism
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Republican Party
- "Bleeding Kansas"
- Dred Scott Case
- Freeport Doctrine
- Confederate States of America
- Alamo
- California Gold Rush
- Henry Clay
- Stephen Douglas
- Fort Sumter
- Crittenden Plan
- First Battle of Bull Run
- Anaconda Plan
- Second Battle of Bull Run
- Battle of Shiloh
- Ironclad Ship
- Merrimack
- Monitor
- States' Rights
- Conscription
- "Greenbacks"
- Martial Law
- Copperheads
- Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Battle of Fredericksburg
- Battle of Chancellorsville
- Battle of Gettysburg
- Battle of Vicksburg
- Gettysburg Address
- Appomattox
- Battle of Antietam
- Robert E. Lee
- Ulysses S. Grant
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- Fifteenth Amendment
- Reconstruction Era
- Ten Percent Plan
- Radical Republicans
- Black Codes
- Wade-Davis Act
- Pocket Veto
- Freedmen
- Tenant Farmers
- Civil Rights Act of 1866
- Thirteenth Amendment
- Fourteenth Amendment
- Reconstruction Act
- Tenure of Office Act
- Impeachment
- Carpetbaggers
- Scalawags
- Ku Klux Klan
- Compromise of 1877
- Abraham Lincoln
- Army Act
- Freedmen's Bureau
- Sharecropping
- Homestead Act
- Morrill Land Grant Act
- Land Speculation
- Bonanza Farms
- Exodusters
- Anaconda Copper Company
- Timber and Stone Act
- Sioux
- Battle of the Little Bighorn
- Massacre at Wounded Knee
- Nez Perce
- Ghost Dances
- Dawes Act
- "Tight Money"
- Gold Standard
- Grange
- Greenback Party
- Farmers' Alliances
- Ocala Platform
- Interstate Commerce Act
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- Populist Party
- Turner Thesis
- Transcontinental Railroad
- Sitting Bull
- Buffalo Bill Cody
- William Jennings Bryan
- Second Industrial Revolution
- Heavy Industry
- "New South"
- Taylorism
- Trust
- Horizontal Integration
- Holding Company
- Vertical Integration
- Social Darwinism
- "Gospel of Wealth"
- Knights of Labor
- Haymarket Square
- American Federation of Labor (A.F.L.)
- Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.)
- Consumer Society
- "New Immigrants"
- Webb Alien Land Law
- Suburbia
- Bessemer Steel
- The Gilded Age
- Pendleton Civil Service Act
- Civil Service Commission
- Professional Bureaucracy
- Coxey's Army
- Political Machine
- Tammany Hall
- Anthracite Coal
- Assembly Line
- Andrew Carnegie
- John D. Rockefeller
- Open-Door Policy
- Naval Act of 1900
- The Influence of Sea Power upon History
- "White Man's Burden"
- Scramble for Africa
- Spanish-American War
- Reconcentration
- Yellow Journalism
- Jingoism
- USS Maine
- "Rough Riders"
- Teller Amendment
- Platt Amendment
- Anti-Imperialist League
- Panama Canal
- Roosevelt Corollary
- "Dollar Diplomacy"
- Treaty of Paris, 1898
- William Randolph Hearst
- "Seward's Folly"
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Progressivism
- Social Gospel Movement
- Muckrakers
- Seventeenth Amendment
- Initiative Process
- Referendum
- Recall
- Direct Primary
- National Consumers League
- Settlement Houses
- Hull House
- Anti-Saloon League
- National Woman's Party
- National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Feminism
- Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
- Square Deal
- Meat Inspection Act
- United States Forest Service
- Sixteenth Amendment
- Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
- New Nationalism
- Bull Moose Party
- New Freedom Policy
- Clayton Antitrust Act
- Federal Trade Commission
- Federal Reserve System
- Birth of a Nation
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- Socialism
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- Booker T. Washington
- Looking Backward
- Upton Sinclair
- Central Powers
- National Security League
- "Hun"
- Lusitania
- Sussex Pledge
- Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
- Zimmermann Telegram
- American Expeditionary Force
- Convoy System
- Battle of Chateau-Thierry
- Meuse-Argonne Offensive
- Liberty Bonds
- Lever Food and Fuel Control Act
- War Industries Board
- Committee on Public Information
- Espionage Act
- Great Migration
- Fourteen Points
- League of Nations
- King-Crane Commission
- "Irreconcilables"
- "Reservationists"
- Sedition Act
- Belleau Wood
- Punitive Expedition
- Woodrow Wilson
- National Culture
- Model T
- Advertising Age
- Washington Conference
- Fordney-McCumber Tariff
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- Universal Negro Improvement Association
- Red Scare
- Palmer Raids
- Emergency Quota Act
- National Origins Act
- Speakeasies
- Scopes Trial
- Creationism
- Jazz Age
- Flapper
- The Jazz Singer
- "Lost Generation"
- Harlem Renaissance
- Prohibition
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- Installment Plan
- Charles Lindbergh
- Speculation
- "On the Margin"
- Hoovervilles
- Dust Bowl
- Voluntarism
- Agricultural Marketing Act
- Hawley-Smoot Tariff
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation
- Bonus Army
- New Deal
- Fireside Chats
- Hundred Days
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
- Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
- Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
- Second New Deal
- Resettlement Administration
- Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Wagner Act
- National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
- Social Security Act
- New Deal Coalition
- American Liberty League
- Revenue Act of 1935
- Old Age Revolving Pension Plan
- Justice Reorganization Bill
- Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
- Scottsboro Boys
- "Black Tuesday"
- Huey Long
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Hollywood
- Sit-Down Strikes
- Allied Powers
- Smith-Connally Act
- Isolationism
- America First Committee
- Neutrality Act of 1935
- Neutrality Act of 1939
- Lend-Lease Act
- Atlantic Charter
- GI
- Revenue Act of 1942
- Battle of the Atlantic
- Battle of the Bulge
- Final Solution
- Holocaust
- Yalta Conference
- Bataan Death March
- Battle of the Coral Sea
- Battle of Midway
- Battle of Guadalcanal
- Island-Hopping
- Kamikaze Pilots
- Manhattan Project
- Enola Gay
- War Bonds
- Ration Cards
- Rosie the Riveter
- Double V Campaign
- Internment Camps
- Red Line Agreement
- D-Day
- Pearl Harbor
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- "Four Freedoms"
- Cold War
- "Revisionist" History
- Potsdam Conference
- Satellite Countries
- Iron Curtain
- Containment Policy
- Truman Doctrine
- Marshall Plan
- Berlin Airlift
- NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
- Warsaw Pact
- Hydrogen Bomb
- Loyalty Review Boards
- HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)
- Blacklist
- McCarran Internal Security Act
- McCarran-Walter Act
- Thirty-Eighth Parallel
- Korean War
- McCarthyism
- Army-McCarthy Hearings
- Massive Retaliation
- Domino Theory
- Battle of Dien Bien Phu
- Geneva Accords
- Eisenhower Doctrine
- Rio Pact
- Sputnik
- U-2
- Smith Act
- George Kennan
- Military Industrial Complex
- Israel
- Suez Canal Crisis
- GI Bill
- Levittown
- Affluent Society
- Taft-Hartley Act
- Fair Deal
- Checkers Speech
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Domesticity
- Baby Boom
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
- The Feminine Mystique
- Rebel Without a Cause
- Beat Generation
- Rock and Roll
- Jackie Robinson
- Interstate Highway System
- "Dixiecrat"
- Earl Warren
- New Frontier
- Warren Commission
- Great Society
- VISTA (Volunteer in Service to America)
- Head Start
- Medicare
- Sit-In
- Freedom Rides
- March on Washington
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Kerner Commission
- Nation of Islam
- Black Nationalism
- Black Power
- Black Panthers
- NOW (National Organization for Women)
- Ms.
- Roe v. Wade
- American Indian Movement
- United Farm Workers
- Bay of Pigs
- Berlin Wall
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Vietcong
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- Tet Offensive
- Napalm
- My Lai Massacre
- Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
- Port Huron Statement
- Free Speech Movement
- Counterculture
- Woodstock Music Festival
- Vietnamization
- Kent State University
- Pentagon Papers
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Silent Spring
- Dr. Strangelove
- Peace Corps
- Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
- Deficit Spending
- "Southern Strategy"
- Détente
- Nuclear Proliferation
- SALT I (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
- Realpolitik
- Watergate Affair
- "Enemies List"
- Plumbers
- Special Prosecutor
- "Saturday Night Massacre"
- Stagflation
- OPEC
- Camp David Accords
- Iranian Hostage Crisis
- Affirmative Action
- Religious Right
- New Right
- Supply-Side Economics
- New Federalism
- Tax Reform Act of 1986
- Iran-Contra Affair
- Opening to China
- "Smoking Gun"
- WIN (Whip Inflation Now)
- SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative)
- "Evil Empire"
- Gridlock
- Operation "Desert Shield"
- Operation "Desert Storm"
- New Democrat
- Whitewater
- Contract with America
- Globalization
- NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
- "No New Taxes"
- New World Order
- Ross Perot
- Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
- Bush v. Gore
- Neo-Conservatives
- 9/11 Attack
- USA Patriot Act
- Operation Iraqi Freedom
- Hurricane Katrina
- Historiography
- Primary Source
- Postmodernism
- Secondary Source
- Social History
