Quiz terms from A Biography of America

For the weekly quizzes, you should be able to briefly define and state the significance of these terms in the context of the episode of A Biography of America.

1. New World Encounters
Christopher Columbus
1492
Bering Strait
Hernando de Soto
conquistador
Francisco Vasquez De Coronado
Juan de Onate
Pope
Hakluyt

2. English Settlement
John Smith
plantation system
indentured servitude
House of Burgesses
1619
Puritans
John Winthrop
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Anne Hutchinson
King Philip's War
Bacon's Rebellion

3. Growth and Empire
slave trade
Stono Uprising
Benjamin Franklin
Navigation Acts
privatism
Seven Years War
French and Indian War
Treaty of Paris

4. The Coming of Independence
Stamp Act
Sons of Liberty
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Coercive Acts
Intolerable Acts
Battle of Lexington
Battle of Concord
Second Continental Congress
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
American Revolution

5. A New System of Government
republic
Constitution of 1787
Articles of Confederation
Alien and Sedition Acts

6. Westward Expansion
Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana territory
Lewis and Clark expedition
New Orleans
steamboat
Robert Fulton
canals
Eli Whitney
cotton gin

7. The Rise of Capitalism
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations
laissez-faire economics
division of labor
Lowell Experiment
steam power
Erie Canal
Mohawk Pass
Chicago
railroad

8. The Reform Impulse
Andrew Jackson
Manifest Destiny
Trail of Tears
nullification
Democrats
Whigs
Tocqueville
individualism
Horace Mann
Seneca Falls
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
second Great Awakening
Charles Grandison Finney
William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberator
American Anti-Slavery Society

9. Slavery
Turner's Insurrection
cotton gin

10. The Coming of the Civil War
Mexican American War
Manifest Destiny
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Personal Liberty Laws
Underground Railroad
Dred Scott vs Sandford
John Brown
Harper's Ferry, Virginia
Lincoln
Southern secession
Confederate States of America
Fort Sumter

11. The Civil War
limited war
total war
Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Vicksburg

12. Reconstruction
Gettysburg Address
Lincon's assassination
Reconstruction
40 acres and a mule
Andrew Johnson
14th Amendment
Ku Klux Klan

13. America at the Centennial
1876 World Exposition
Corliss steam engine
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
George Armstrong Custer
Little Big Horn
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse

14. Industrial Supremacy
Great Uprising of 1877
Chicago Stockyards
Gustavus Swift
vertically integrated company
Andrew Carnegie
Philip Armour
The Jungle
skyscaper

15. The New City
World's Columbian Exposition
White City
Frederick Law Olmsted
department store
suburbia
electric trolley
Streetcar City
Hull House
Jane Addams
"The Significance of the Frontier in American History"
Frederick Jackson Turner
Thomas Edison
Kinetoscope

16. The West
Pacific Railway Act of 1862
Union Pacific
Central Pacific
Credit Mobilier
Transcontinental Railroad
Sand Creek Massacre
Wounded Knee
Dawes Act
Homestead Act
McCormick reaper
Grange
Farmers Alliance
free silver
Mary Lease
Populist Party
William Jennings Bryan

17. Capital and Labor
J. Pierpont Morgan
Jacob Riis
How the Other Half Lives
Lattimer Massacre

18. TR and Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt (Teddy, TR)
imperial presidency
"Great White Fleet"
Woodrow Wilson
safe for democracy
Paris Peace Conference
self-determination
League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles
Eugene V. Debs
Red Scare

19. A Vital Progressivism
Progressivism
Americanization
Indian boarding school
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. Dubois
NAACP
Great Migration
Red Summer of 1919
Carrie Chapman Catt
lynching
segregation

20. The Twenties
Henry Ford
Model T
belt-driven assembly line production
mass production
"Fordism"
Los Angeles
Hollywood
Stock Market Crash of 1929

21. FDR and The Depression
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Hoovervilles"
Dust Bowl
New Deal
Dorothea Lange
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Scottsboro case
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
sit-down strike
Social Security Act

22. World War II
Pearl Harbor
D-Day
firebombing

23. The Fifties
Okinawa
kamikaze
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
Atom Bomb
GI Bill
Levitttown
suburbia
federal highway program
Cold War
teenager
transistor radio
Elvis Presley
Brown v. Board of Education
Rosa Parks
Ralph Nader
Betty Friedan
The Feminine Mystique

24. The Sixties
Woolworth's strike, Greensboro NC
integration of Little Rock High School
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Congress for Racial Equality (CORE)
freedom rides, Freedom Riders
Martin Luther King, Jr.
March on Washington
Lyndon Johnson
War on Poverty
Great Society
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Black Power
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Dien Bien Phu
Viet Cong
Richard Nixon
Watergate scandal
secret plan to end the war
bombing of Cambodia

25. Contemporary History
bicentennial
Energy Crisis