American History 8 Vocabulary
American History 8 Vocabulary

Chapter 15

Compromise of 1850

Free-Soil Party

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Popular Sovereignty

Civil War

Dred Scott Decision

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Fort Sumter

Confederacy


Chapter 16

(15 Words)

Border States

Blockade

First Battle at Bull Run

"Stonewall" Jackson

Army of the Potomac

Ironclad

Antietam

Emancipation Proclamation

13th Amendment

Harriet Tubman

Habeas Corpus

Gettysburg

Vicksburg

Gettysburg Address

Robert E. Lee


Chapter 17

Reconstruction

Radical

Wade-Davis Bill

Freedmen's Bureau

14th Amendment

15th Amendment

Carpetbaggers

Scalawags

Jim Crow Laws

Plessy v. Ferguson


Chapter 18

Comstock Lode

Ghost Towns

Transcontinental Railroad

Homestead Act

Sodbusters

Reservations

Dawes Act

Wounded Knee

Farmer's Alliances

Populist Party


Chapter 19

Consolidation

Alexander Graham Bell

Assembly Line

Mass Production

Rockefeller

Monopoly

Carnegie

Trade Unions

Injunction

Pullman Strike


Chapter 20

Ethnic Groups

Emma Lazarus

Assimilate

Chinese Exclusion Act

Hull House

Yellow Journalism

Ragtime

Realism

Jacob Riis

Gilded Age


Chapter 21

(15 Words)

Boss Tweed

Muckrakers

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Upton Sinclair

16th Amendment

17th Amendment

Suffragists

18th Amendment

19th Amendment

Square Deal

Progressive Party

Woodrow Wilson

Clayton Antitrust Act

Gentlemen's Agreement

Ku Klux Klan


Chapter 22

Expansionism

Isolationism

Spheres of Influence

Open Door Policy

USS Maine

Platt Amendment

Rough Riders

Panamanian Revolt

Roosevelt Corollary

Dollar Diplomacy

Chapter 23

(15 Words)

Nationalism

Militarism

Alliances

Imperialism

Balance of Power

Allied Powers

Central Powers

Propaganda

Lusitania

Zimmerman Telegram

Bolsheviks

Rationing

Treaty of Versailles of 1919

Fourteen Points

League of Nations


Chapter 24

Anarchists

Teapot Dome Scandal

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Five-Power Treaty

Recession

Harlem Renaissance

Prohibition

21st Amendment

Scopes Trial

Emergency Quota Act


Chapter 25

Stock Market Crash

Great Depression

Hoovervilles

Brain Trust

Fireside Chats

New Deal

Dust Bowl

Migrant Workers

Indian Reorganization Act

"Court Packing" Plan


Chapter 26

(20 Words)

Dictators

Fascism

Anti-Semitism

Appeasement

Invasion of Poland

Blitzkrieg

Axis Powers

Allied Powers

Lend-Lease Act

Pearl Harbor

Victory Gardens

Internment Camps

Bataan Death March

Atomic Bomb

Genocide

Mussolini

D-Day

Holocaust

Concentration Camps

Island Hopping


Chapter 27

(15 Words)

Iron Curtain

Containment

United Nations

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Berlin Airlift

Warsaw Pact

Communism

Fair Deal

Taft-Hartley Bill

Korean War

Blacklists

McCarthyism

38th Parallel

Red Scare


Chapter 28

Ike

Arms race

Sputnik

Domino Theory

Baby Boom

Generation Gap

Materialism

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS

Neil Armstrong

Ho Chi Minh


Chapter 29

Segregation

Integration

Civil Disobedience

JFK

Great Society

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Sit-in

Malcolm X

Black Panther Party

Equal Rights Amendment


Chapter 30

Green Berets

Fidel Castro

Bay of Pigs

Blockade

Geneva Accords

Golf of Tonkin Resolution

Counterculture

Silent Majority

Kissinger

Kent State


Chapter 31

Balance of Power

Affirmative action

Watergate

Impeachment

Three Mile Island

Apartheid

Human Rights

Camp David Accords

SALT II

Mao Zedong


Chapter 32

Nicaragua

START

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Tiananmen Square

Line-item Veto

NAFTA

Ethnic Cleansing

Terrorism

Global Warming

Weapons of Mass Destruction