United States History – Essential Terms provides definitions for 50 important terms related to US history. Some of the key terms and concepts covered include: - The Antebellum Period refers to the time between the American Revolutionary War and the Civil War. - Civil Rights are legal guarantees protecting individuals from discrimination and attacks on personal liberties. - The Cold War was a state of political and military tension between the Western world and the Soviet Union from 1946-1991. - New Deal was a series of liberal economic programs implemented in response to the Great Depression under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. - Reconstruction Era was the period from 1865-1877 when the federal government controlled southern states that had se

1. United States History – Essential Terms
Antebellum Assimilation Civil Rights Capitalism Cold War Communism Conservatism Containment Counterculture Democracy
Period The process through A legal guarantee An economic system in The continuing state of An economic system in A political & social A US policy that called A term used to A form of government
The time period which ethnic minorities protecting individuals which the means of political conflict & which goods are philosophy that for military, economic, describe a subgroup in which all eligible
between the end of the assume the customs & from attacks on their production are military tension that owned in common & promotes the & diplomatic strategies whose values & people have an equal
Revolutionary War traditions of the personal liberties, the privately owned & existed between the are available to all as maintenance of to stall the spread of behavior run contrary say in the decisions
(1789) & the start of dominant culture right to a fair trial, the operated for profit USSR & the West from needed traditional institutions communism to those of the social that affect their lives
the Civil War (1861) right to vote, & 1946-1991 mainstream of the day
freedom from
discrimination
Détente Diplomacy Dove Fair Deal Federal Reserve Federalism Free Enterprise Fundamentalism Gilded Age Great Awakening
The easing of strained The art of conducting Those who oppose the The term given to the System A system in which System A strict adherence to An era of rapid A period of religious
relations, especially in negotiations with use of military set of liberal proposals The central banking power is shared An economic system in specific religious economic & population revival in American
a political situation regards to issues of intervention to resolve put forth by President system of the US, between national & which few restrictions beliefs growth in the US society
peace-making, trade, a dispute Harry Truman in his responsible for the state governments are placed on business following the Civil War
war, economics, etc. 1949 State of the nation’s monetary activities & ownership
Union Address policy, banking
regulations, & stability
of the financial system
Great Depression Great Migration Great Society Hawk Idealism Immigration Imperialism Internationalism Isolationism Judicial Review
A severe worldwide The massive A set of domestic Those who support Political ideology The movement into a The policy in which a A political movement A foreign policy in The doctrine under
economic downturn in movement of blacks programs suggested military intervention to expressed by country for the purpose strong nation takes which advocates which a country which legislative &
the decade before out of the southern US by President Lyndon B. resolve a dispute President Woodrow of permanent over a weaker one, greater economic & refuses to enter into executive actions are
World War II from 1910-1930 Johnson in order to Wilson which holds residence dominating its political cooperation any alliances, foreign subject to review by the
combat poverty & that a nation’s foreign economic, political, & among nations for the trade or economic judiciary
racial injustice policy should be cultural life benefit of all commitments, or
guided by ethical & international
moral considerations agreements
Labor Union Laissez Faire Liberalism Manifest Destiny Market McCarthyism Monopoly Muckraker Nativism New Deal
An organization of An economic A doctrine that takes The 19th century belief Revolution The practice of making An economic condition Reform-minded The policy of protecting A series of liberal
employees formed in environment in which protecting & enhancing that the US was A change in the US accusations of in which a specific journalists of the early the interests of native economic programs
th
order to lobby for transactions between the freedom of the destined to spread economy made disloyalty, subversion, individual or enterprise 20 century who work inhabitants against implemented in
better working private parties are free individual to be the across the North possible by or treason without is the only supplier of a exposed the excesses those of immigrants response to the Great
conditions, hours, pay, from government central problem of American continent improvements in proper regard for particular kind of & corruption of the era Depression under
& benefits interventions politics transportation & evidence product or service President Franklin D.
communication after Roosevelt
1812
Nullification Patronage Political Machine Popular Populism Progressive Era Prohibition Propaganda Protectionism Reconstruction
A legal theory under The use of state A political organization Sovereignty A political movement A period of social The practice of Information, especially Government actions & Era
which a US state has resources to reward in which the leadership The political doctrine supporting the rights & activism & reform that outlawing the of a biased or policies that restrict or The period from
the right to invalidate individuals for their commands the support which holds that the power of the people in flourished from the manufacture, misleading nature, restrain international 1865-1877 during
any federal law it has electoral support of individuals & people who live in a their struggle against 1890s to the 1920s transportation, sale, & used to promote or trade which the states that
deemed businesses who region should the privileged elite consumption of alcohol publicize a particular had seceded from the
unconstitutional receive rewards for determine for & alcoholic beverages political cause or point Union were controlled
their efforts themselves the nature of view by the federal
of their government government
Realism Red Scare Republicanism Sectionalism Segregation Suffrage Tariff Trust United Nations Urbanization
A political philosophy One of two distinct A political system The differing The separation or The right to vote A tax on imports & A business entity An international The movement from
which prioritizes periods of strong anti- founded upon the rule economies, social isolation of race, class, exports formed with the intent organization founded rural areas into cities
national interest & communism in the US of law, the rights of structures, customs, & or ethnic group to monopolize after World War II to
security over ideology (1919-1920) & individuals, & the political interests that business, to restrain stop wars between
& moral concerns (1947-1957) sovereignty of the emerged in the North & trade, or to fix prices countries & to provide
people South between 1800 & a platform for dialogue
1860