U.S. History
EOC Final Exam Review (Georgia Standards)
Key Terms and Concepts
Colonial Period: 1607-1750
1. Virginia Company
2. Tobacco
3. Powhatan
4. House of Burgesses
5. Bacon’s Rebellion
6. Slavery v. indentured servants
7. King Phillip’s War
8. town meetings
9. Rhode Island/Roger Williams
10. Half-way Covenant
11. Salem Witch Trials
12. royal colony
13. New Amsterdam/Dutch
14. Pennsylvania/Quakers
15. Quebec/French
16. Southern colonies, middle colonies and New England colonies: Compare/contrast
17. Great Awakening.
18. Benjamin Franklin
19. Middle Passage
20. Slave culture
21. mercantilism
American Revolution, 1763-1789
22. French and Indian War
23. 1763 Treaty of Paris
24. Proclamation of 1763
25. the Stamp Act
26. the Intolerable Acts
27. Sons and Daughters of Liberty
28. Committees of Correspondence.
29. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
30. Declaration of Independence
31. John Locke/Thomas Jefferson.
32. Marquis de Lafayette
33. George Washington
34. Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River
35. Valley Forge.
36. Battle of Yorktown
37. Lord Cornwallis
38. Treaty of Paris, 1783.
39. Articles of Confederation
40. Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
41. anti-Federalists and Federalists
42. The Federalist
43. Checks and balances
44. Alexander Hamilton
The Early Republic, 1789-1823
45. Political Parties
46. James Madison
47. Great Compromise
48. Montesquieu
49. 3/5 compromise
50. Bill of Rights
51. Washington Administration
52. Adams Administration
53. Whiskey Rebellion
54. Northwest Ordinance/slavery
55. Louisiana Purchase
56. Lewis and Clark
57. War of 1812
58. Erie Canal/NYC
59. Monroe Doctrine
Jacksonian Democracy, 1828-1850
60. Eli Whitney: cotton gin and interchangeable parts
61. Manifest Destiny
62. Temperance
63. Abolition
64. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
65. Seneca Falls Convention
66. Jacksonian Democracy
67. Nat Turner
68. The Grimke Sisters
69. William Lloyd Garrison
70. Frederick Douglass
71. Horace Mann
72. Missouri Compromise
73. Nullification
74. John C. Calhoun
75. Mexican War
76. Wilmot Proviso
77. Compromise of 1850
Sectionalism/Civil War/Reconstruction, 1850-1877
78. Kansas-Nebraska Act
79. Popular sovereignty
80. John Brown
81. Dred Scott
82. Election of 1860
83. Habeas corpus
84. Ulysses Grant
85. Robert E. Lee
86. “Stonewall” Jackson
87. William T. Sherman
88. Jefferson Davis
89. Fort Sumter
90. Antietam
91. Vicksburg
92. Gettysburg
93. Battle for Atlanta
94. Emancipation Proclamation
95. Presidential Reconstruction
96. Radical (Republican) Reconstruction
97. Morehouse College
98. Freedman’s Bureau
99. 13th Amendment
100. 14th Amendment
101. 15th Amendment
102. Black Codes
103. KKK
104. Andrew Johnson
105. Election of 1876/Compromise of 1877
Gilded Age/Industrialization/Immigration: 1865-1900
106. Railroads
107. Andrew Carnegie/steel/vertical integration
108. John D. Rockefeller/Standard Oil Co./horizontal integration
109. Monopoly
110. Trust
111. Chinese immigration/Exclusion Act
112. Thomas Edison
113. Ellis Island
114. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
115. Pullman Strike of 1894
116. Labor union/organized labor
117. American Federation of Labor (AFL)
118. Samuel Gompers
119. Plains Indians/Sitting Bull
120. “Battle” of Wounded Knee
Progressivism/Imperialism/WWI: 1890-1920
121. Upton Sinclair/The Jungle
122. Meat Inspection Act
123. Jane Addams/Hull House
124. Jim Crow/Plessy v. Ferguson
125. NAACP
126. Ida Tarbell/muckraker.
127. Initiative/recall/referendum
128. direct election of senators
129. labor laws
130. urban living conditions
131. conservation movement/national parks/Theodore Roosevelt
132. Spanish-American War/Philippines/debate over expansionism
133. Roosevelt Corollary
134. Panama Canal
135. U.S. neutrality/World War I
136. unrestricted submarine warfare
137. World War I/homefront/Great Migration,/the Espionage Act
138. socialist Eugene Debs.
139. Wilson’s Fourteen Points/League of Nations.
140. Eighteenth Amendment/ Prohibition
141. Nineteenth Amendment/woman suffrage
1920’s/Depression/New Deal: 1920-1937
142. Red Scare/immigrant restriction
143. The Red Scare (1919-1920)
144. Immigration restriction: Emergency Quota Act; National Origins Act
145. Henry Ford/mass production/automobile
146. Radio/movies
147. Louis Armstrong/jazz
148. Langston Hughes/Harlem Renaissance
149. Irving Berlin/Tin Pan Alley
150. Stock market crash of 1929/overproduction and under-consumption
151. Dust Bowl
152. Hoovervilles
153. FDR’s New Deal
154. TVA
155. Wagner Act
156. Social Security/Second New Deal
157. Eleanor Roosevelt
158. Huey Long
159. Court-packing
WWII/Cold War: 1937-1962
160. Neutrality Acts
161. Rationing
162. Lend-Lease Act
163. A. Phillip Randolph
164. Pearl Harbor
165. Japanese internment
166. Midway
167. “D-Day”
168. Fall of Berlin
169. “Rosie the Riveter”
170. European/Pacific Theater Geography/logistics
171. The Manhattan Project/Los Alamos
172. Joseph R. McCarthy/“McCarthyism”
173. Marshall Plan
174. Truman Doctrine/containment
175. Executive order 8802
176. The Korean War
177. Chinese Civil War
178. Cuban Revolution
179. Cuban Missile Crisis
180. Bay of Pigs Invasion
181. The Vietnam War
1950’s
182. “baby boom”
183. Levittown
184. Interstate Highway Act
185. TV and Civil Rights (1960’s also)
186. Jackie Robinson
187. Executive Order 9981
188. Brown v Bd. Of Ed., 1954-55/ “all deliberate speed”
1960’s: Civil Rights and Vietnam
189. Kennedy/Nixon Debate
190. Kennedy Assassination
191. Sputnik/Ike’s reaction
192. PC/AC/cell phone: don’t ask me!
193. LBJ/Great Society
194. Medicare
195. Warren Court
196. MLK/Letter From Birmingham Jail/I Have A Dream Speeches and assassination
197. RFK Assassination
198. 1968 DNC/Chicago
199. Civil Rights Act of 1964
200. Voting Rights Act of 1965
201. Miranda v Arizona, 1966
202. SNCC
203. SCLC
204. sit-ins
205. Freedom Rides
206. NOW
207. Anti-war movement
208. Cesar Chavez/United Farm Workers
209. Rachel Carson/Silent Spring
210. Earth Day
211. EPA
212. Modern Conservatism/Goldwater/Nixon
1970’s: Vietnam/Watergate/Carter
213. Nixon/China
214. Nixon/Watergate
215. Gerald Ford
216. Supreme Court decisions, esp. Roe v. Wade and U of California Regents v Bakke
217. Jimmy Carter/Middle East/Camp David Accords
218. Carter/Iranian Revolution/Hostage Crisis
1980’s: Reagan/Clinton/Bush I and II
219. Reagan/ Reganomics
220. Reagan/Iran Contra
221. Reagan/collapse of U.S.S.R.
222. Bill Clinton/impeachment/acquittal
223. NAFTA
224. Election of 2000/electoral college
225. Bush II/9-11/war on terror/Iraq/Afghanistan
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