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🗽US History – 1865 to Present
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211 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your US History – 1865 to Present exam

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A

Abbie Hoffman
Adamson Act
Admiral Chester Nimitz
African American Migration
Agent Orange Effects
Aids crisis
Allied Nations
American Expeditionary Forces
American Indian Movement
American Indian Religious Freedom Act
American Red Cross
American Tobacco Company
American Woman Suffrage Association
Anti-establishment sentiment
Anti-german sentiment
Anti-monopoly
Antiquities Act
Antitrust Legislation
Apollo 11
Apollo Program
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Army-McCarthy Hearings
Asymmetrical Warfare
Atlanta Exposition
Atlantic Charter
Atomic bombings
Audubon Society

B

Battle of Belleau Wood
Battle of Britain
Battle of Guadalcanal
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Kasserine Pass
Battle of Manila Bay
Battle of Saint-Mihiel
Battle of San Juan Hill
Battle of Tarawa
Battle of the Atlantic
Battle of the Bulge
Bimetallic Standard
Black institutions
Bonus Army March

C

Carrie Chapman Catt
Charlotte Forten
Chicago Fire
Chicago Race Riot
Chicano Movement
Chicano Studies
Civil Liberties Act
Clayton Antitrust Act
College enrollment
Commission on Civil Rights
Concentration of Wealth
Consumer credit
Contempt of congress
Cooper v. Aaron
Corporate Monopolies
Countercultural literature
Court-packing plan
Crack cocaine
Credibility gap
Credit bubble
Crop lien system
Crop-lien system
Cross burnings
Cultural Hegemony
Cultural Pluralism
Cuyahoga River Fires
César Chávez

D

Debt Peonage
Digital economy
Dingley Tariff
Dodd-Frank Act
Dolores Huerta
Dow Jones Industrial Average