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| 4784439883 | Renaissance | The revival of art, architecture, literature, and learning from the 14th through the 16th century. This is important because it marks the transition between medieval and modern times. |  | 0 |
| 4784486543 | Gilded Age | The time between the civil war and world war I. During this time the US experienced a growth in population and economy. This is important because it marked a time of political corruption and corporate financial misdealings. |  | 1 |
| 4784553023 | Great Awakening | The evangelical and revitalization movement that swept through out Protestant Europe and British America in the 1730's and 1740's. This is important because it left a permanent impact on American Protestantism. |  | 2 |
| 4784628893 | Columbian Exchange | A period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. This is important because the exchange of plants, animals, disease, and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life. |  | 3 |
| 4784754966 | Encomienda System | A legal system in colonial Spanish America in which the crown attempted to define the status of the Indian population in its American Colonies. |  | 4 |
| 4784839574 | Protestant Reformation | 16th century religious, political, intellectual, and cultural upheaval that splintered catholic Europe. This is important because it set in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era. |  | 5 |
| 4784899600 | Louisiana Purchase | The purchase by the US from France of the Louisiana Territory. This is important because it gave more land to the US. |  | 6 |
| 4784961520 | McCulloch v. Maryland | A landmark decision by the Supreme Court. The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland. |  | 7 |
| 4784978294 | Marbury v. Madison | A landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. |  | 8 |
| 4784984095 | Missouri Comprimise | A settlement of a dispute between slave and free states, contained in several laws passed during 1820 and 1821. Northern legislators had tried to prohibit slavery in Missouri, which was then applying for statehood. |  | 9 |
| 4785015552 | Republican Motherhood | A 20th-century term for an attitude toward women's roles present in the emerging United States before, during, and after the American Revolution. |  | 10 |
| 4785029608 | Panic of 1819 | The first major peacetime financial crisis in the United States followed by a general collapse of the American economy persisting through 1821. |  | 11 |
| 4785048122 | Panic of 1837 | A financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down while unemployment went up. Pessimism abounded during the time. |  | 12 |
| 4785059961 | Transcendentalism | An idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. |  | 13 |
| 4785097016 | Seneca Falls Convention | The first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Held in Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19-20, 1848. |  | 14 |
| 4811332986 | Abolitionism | The belief that slavery should be abolished. In the early nineteenth century, increasing numbers of people in the northern United States held that the nation's slaves should be freed immediately, without compensation to slave owners. |  | 15 |
| 4811341570 | Chattel Slavery | An enslaved person who is owned for ever and whose children and children's children are automatically enslaved. Chattel slaves are individuals treated as complete property, to be bought and sold. Chattel slavery was supported and made legal by European governments and monarchs. |  | 16 |
| 4811355304 | Jim Crow Laws | State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965. |  | 17 |
| 4811365483 | Kansas Nebraska Act | The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. |  | 18 |
| 4811385666 | Progressivism | A philosophy based on the idea of progress, which asserts that advancement in science, technology, economic development, and social organization are vital to improve the human condition. |  | 19 |
| 4811398583 | W. E. B. Dubois | United States civil rights leader and political activist who campaigned for equality for Black Americans (1868-1963) Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. |  | 20 |
| 4811406855 | Theodore Roosevelt | A political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Roosevelt was president from 1901 to 1909. He became governor of New York in 1899, soon after leading a group of volunteer cavalrymen, the Rough Riders, in the Spanish-American War. |  | 21 |
| 4811416145 | New Nationalism | Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive political philosophy during the 1912 election. |  | 22 |
| 4811426351 | American exceptionalism | American exceptionalism refers to the special character of the United States as a uniquely free nation based on democratic ideals and personal liberty. |  | 23 |
| 4811437760 | Manifest Destiny | The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. |  | 24 |
| 4811449609 | League of Nations | An international organization established after World War I under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. The League, the forerunner of the United Nations, brought about much international cooperation on health, labor problems, refugee affairs, and the like. |  | 25 |
| 4811460201 | The Treaty of Versailles | The Treaty of Versailles (French: Traité de Versailles) was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. |  | 26 |
| 4811466917 | Red Scare | The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. This "scare" was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution. |  | 27 |
| 4811475234 | Prohibition | The prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933. |  | 28 |
| 4811485284 | The New Deal | A group of government programs and policies established under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s; the New Deal was designed to improve conditions for persons suffering in the Great Depression. |  | 29 |
| 4811493187 | Manhattan Project | A research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. |  | 30 |
| 4811525369 | Marshall Plan | An American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion (approximately $120 billion in current dollar value as of June 2016) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World. |  | 31 |
| 4811500449 | Domino Theory | The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall. |  | 32 |
| 4811509737 | Cuban Missile Crisis | A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the "hottest" periods of the cold war. |  | 33 |
| 4811541108 | Potsdam Conference | A conference held in Potsdam in the summer of 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administration of Germany and Poland after World War II ended. |  | 34 |
