1

UNITED STATES HISTORY & GOVERNMENT

TOPICAL REVIEW

I TIMELINE

NAME of ERA DATES ISSUE(S)

COLONIAL

1607-

1763

REVOLUTIONERY

1763-

1783

FEDERALIST ERA

1781-

1800

FRENCH REVOLUTION

1789-

1815

“THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS”

1815-

1828

THE AGE OF JACKSON

1828-

1842

MANIFEST DESTINY

1840-

1848

HOUSE DIVIDES

1848-

1861

2

CIVIL WAR AND

RECONSTRUCTION

1861-

1877

THE GILDED AGE

1865-

1900

POPULISM AND

PROGRESSIVISM

1892-

1917

IMPERIALISM

1865-

1919

ROARING TWENTIES

1919-

1929

GREAT DEPRESSION

1929-

1940

WORLD WAR II YEARS

1930-

1945

THE EARLY COLD WAR

KOREAN WAR

1945-

1962

VIETNAM WAR

1954-

1975

1960s

1961-

1969

1970s

1969-

1981

3

1980s

1981-

1993

1990s

1993-

2001

2000s

2001-

2006

II. U.S. CONSTITUTION

ACTION/PRINCIPLE DEFINE THE ACTION/PRINCIPLE

GREAT (Connecticut)

COMPROMISE

VIRGINIA PLAN &

NEW JERSEY PLAN

SLAVERY

COMPROMISES

1.

2.

3.

FEDERALISM

ELASTIC CLAUSE

ELECTORAL COLLEGE

CHECKS AND BALANCES

EXECUTIVE

JUDICIAL

LEGISLATIVE

4

JUDICIAL REVIEW

COMMERCE CLAUSE

IMPEACHMENT (President)

Three Times used or

almost used

1.

2.

3.

III. MAJOR AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION

AMENDMENT DATE DESCRIBE THIS AMENDMENT

FIRST

1789

SECOND 1789

THIRD 1789

FOURTH 1789

FIFTH 1789

6TH, 7TH 1789

EIGHTH 1789

NINTH 1789

TENTH 1789

THIRTEENTH 1865

FOURTEENTH 1868

5

FIFTEENTH 1870

SIXTEENTH 1913

SEVENTEENTH 1913

EIGHTEENTH 1919

NINETEENTH 1920

24TH 1964

26TH 1971

IV. POLITCAL TERMS

TERM DEFINITION

BICAMERAL LEGISLATURE

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SENATE

CAUCUS

CENSUS

CONSTRUCTION

LOOSE

STRICT

CONVENTION

DUE PROCESS

EXECUTIVE PRIVILEDGE

FRANCHISE, SUFFRAGE

6

GENERAL ELECTION

HABEAS CORPUS

INITITATIVE

JURY

LIMITED GOVERNMENT

LOBBYING

POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

NATURAL RIGHTS

POWERS

CONCURRENT

DECLARED

DELEGATED

DENIED

IMPLIED

RESERVED

PRIMARY ELECTION

RATIFICATION

RECALL

REFERENDUM

SPOILS SYSTEM

SWING STATE

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UNWRITTEN CONSTITUTION

VETO

WARD

V. MAJOR DOCUMENTS/SPEECHES

DOCUMENT… DATE DESCRIBE THE DOCUMENT

MAYFLOWER

COMPACT

1620

Thomas Paine,

Common Sense

1776

DECLARATION OF

INDEPENDENCE

1776

ARTICLES OF

CONFEDERATION

1783

U.S. CONSTITUTION 1788

FEDERALIST PAPERS

1788

BILL OF RIGHTS 1789

WASHINGTON’S

FAREWELL ADDRESS

1796 1.

2.

8

GETTYSBURG

ADDRESS

1863

EMANCIPATION

PROCLAMATION

1862

LINCOLN’S 2ND

INAUGURAL

1865

BRYAN’S CROSS OF

GOLD SPEECH

1896

FDR’S 1st INAUGURAL

1933

FDR’S STATE OF THE

UNION ADDRESS

(FOUR FREEDOMS)

1941

14 POINTS 1917

EISENHOWER’S

FAREWELL ADDRESS

1961

KENNEDY’S

INAUGURAL

1961

I HAVE A DREAM

SPEECH

1964

9

VI. SUPREME COURT CASES

CASE Date IMPORTANCE

MARBURY V. MADISON

MCCULLOCH V. MARYLAND

GIBBONS V. OGDEN

FLETCHER V. PECK

HUNT V. MASSACHUSETTS

DRED SCOTT V. SANFORD

EX PARTE MILLIGAN

Munn v. Illinois

Wabash v. Illinois

U.S. V. E. C. KNIGHT

PLESSY V. FERGUSON

MULLER V. OREGON

HAMMER V. DAGENHART

IN RE DEBS

U. S. v. SCHENCK

SCHECHTER POULTRY COPORATION V. U.S.

JONES & LAUGHLIN STEEL CORPORATION

V. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

KOREMATSU V. U.S.

BROWN V. BOARD OF

EDUCATION OF TOPEKA, KANSAS

10

HEART OF ATLANTA MOTEL V. U.S.

ENGEL V. VITALE

BAKER V. CARR

MAPP V. OHIO

MIRANDA V. ARIZONA

GIDEON V. WAINRIGHT

ESCOBEDO V. LLINOIS

NEW YORK TIMES V.U. S.

FURMAN V. GEORGIA

ROE V. WADE

U.S. V. NIXON

BAKKE V. REGENTS of the UNIVERSITY OF

CALIFORNIA

U.S. V. MORRISON

VII. MAJOR UNITED STATES LAWS & AGENCIES

LAW DATE DESCRIBE

NAVIGATION ACTS

QUARTERING ACT

STAMP ACT

TOWNSHEND ACTS

JUDICIARY ACT

11

ALIEN & SEDITION ACTS

HOMESTEAD ACT

FREEDMAN’S BUREAU

DAWES SEVERALTYACT

INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT

SHERMAN ANTI-TRUST ACT

CLAYTON ANTI TRUST ACT

PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT

CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT

FEDERAL RESERVE

SEAMAN’S ACT

ADAMSON ACT

KEATING-OWEN CHILD LABOR ACT

ESPIONAGE & SEDITION ACTS

IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1924

DAWES PLAN

FDIC

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT

G.I. BILL

INTERSTATE HIGHWAY ACT

CIVIL RIGHTS ACT

VOTING RIGHTS ACT

12

ENVIORNMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION

MEDICARE

MEDICAID

PEACE CORPS

VISTA

HEAD START

WAR POWERS ACT

VIII. UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICIES

FOREIGN

POLICY

DESCRIBE

SITUATIONS WHERE IT WAS USED,

WITH DATES

NEUTRALITY

MONROE

DOCTRINE

MANIFEST DESTINY

ISOLATIONSIM

IMPERIALISM

OPEN DOOR POLICY

BIG STICK POLICY

GOOD NEIGHBOR

POLICY

13

NEUTRALITY ACTS

CASH AND CARRY

DESTROYERS FOR BASES

LEND-LEASE

ATLANTIC CHARTER

UNITED NATIONS

NATO

OAS

SEATO

CONTAINMENT

TRUMAN DOCTRINE

EISENHOWER DOCTRINE

MARSHALL PLAN

DOMINO THEORY

DÉTENTE

WAR ON TERROR

IX. MAJOR WARS INVOLVING AMERICANS

WAR DATES CAUSES… EFFECTS

BRITISH IMPERIAL

WARS

FRENCH AND INDIAN

WAR

Quebec

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AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Continental Congresses

Sons of liberty

Samuel Adams

John Adams

John Hancock

Boston Massacre

Boston Tea Party

Lexington and Concord

Bunkers Hill

Saratoga

Southern theater

Yorktown

Loyalists/Patriots

Four

Causes

SHAY’S REBELLION

WHISKEY REBELLION

WAR OF 1812

(Napoleonic Wars)

Embargo

White House

New Orleans

TEXAS INDEPENDENCE

ALAMO

15

Oregon-Texas

COMPROMISE

MEXICAN WAR

THREE THEATERS

Spot Resolution

Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

CIVIL WAR

TWO THEATERS

Anaconda Plan

Antietam

Gettysburg

Vicksburg

March to the Sea

NYC Draft Riot

WESTERN FRONTIER

Little Big Horn

Chief Joseph

Wounded Knee

SPANISH-AMERICAN

USS Maine

Rough Riders

Manila

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WORLD WAR I

HMS Luisitania

Zimmerman telegram

Fourteen Points

Battles?

Three

Causes

WORLD WAR II

Pearl Harbor

THREE THEATERS

Coral Sea & Midway

Japanese camps

Teheran Conference

D-Day

Battle of the Bulge

Yalta Conference

Potsdam Conference

Atomic Bomb

COLD WAR

Iron Curtain

Berlin Air Lift

U-2

Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis

Berlin Wall

17

SALT I & II

START

Fall of Berlin Wall

KOREAN WAR

VIETNAM WAR

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Tet Offensive

Pentagon Papers

Kent State

PERSIAN GULF WAR

IRAQ-AMERICAN WAR

AFGHANISTANI-

AMERICAN WAR

X. TREATIES

TREATY DATE DESCRIPTION

TORDESILLAS

PROCLAMATION

OF 1763

PARIS

GREENVILLE

18

JAY

PINCKNEY

LOUISIANA

PURCHASE

GHENT

RUSH-BAGOT

ADAMS-ONIS

OREGON

WEBSTER-

ASHBURTON

GUADALUPE-

HIDALGO

Wilmot Proviso

GADSEN

PURCHASE

CUBA

Teller amendment

Platt amendment

VERSAILLES

Woodrow Wilson

Article X

Henry Cabot Lodge

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XI. UNITED STATES PRESIDENTS

PRESIDENT DATES MAJOR SUCCESS OR FAILURE

GEORGE

WASHINGTON

JOHN

ADAMS

THOMAS

JEFFERSON

JAMES

MADISON

JOHN QUINCY

ADAMS

“CORRUPT BARGAIN”

ANDREW

JACKSON

JAMES K.

POLK

ABRAHAM

LINCOLN

THEODORE

ROOSEVELT

WOODROW

WILSON

20

FRANKLIN D.

ROOSEVELT

Depression

World War II

HARRY S.

TRUMAN

DWIGHT D.

EISENHOWER

JOHN F.

KENNEDY

LYNDON B.

JOHNSON

Civil Rights

Vietnam

RICHARD

NIXON

1. Election of 1968

2. Foreign Policy

3. Watergate

GERALD

FORD

JIMMY

CARTER

21

RONALD

REAGAN

Economy

Cold War

GEORGE

BUSH

WILLIAM

CLINTON

GEORGE W.

BUSH

XII. REFORM MOVEMENTS/IDEAS

REFORM

MOVEMENT

WHAT THEY WANTED

TO REFORM

WHAT THEY DID/

EVENTS Dates?

PURITANISM

Separatists

Half-way covenant

Salem Witch Trials

QUAKERS

FIRST GREAT AWAKENING

ACTS OF RELIGIOUS TOLERATION

Maryland

22

Virginia

2ND GREAT AWAKENING

TRANSCENDENTALISM

UTOPIAS

Shakers

Oneida

Brook Farm

MORMONS

SUFFRAGE

MOVEMENT

ABOLITIONISTS

SOCIAL DARWINISM

SOCIAL GOSPEL

SOCIALISM

GOSPEL OF WEALTH

LABOR MOVEMENT

POPULISM

PROGRESSIVES

MUCKRAKERS

Jacob Riis

Ida Tarbell

Frank Norris

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Lincoln Steffens

TEMPERANCE

Cold Water Pledge

Anti-Saloon League

Carrie Nation

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

PROHIBITION

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

COUNTERCULTURE

WOMEN’S MOVEMENT

NATIVE AMERICAN

MOVEMENT

Alcatraz

HISPANIC AMERICANS

César Chávez

PERSONS WITH

DISABILITIES

GAY AMERICANS

Stonewall Riot

Don’t ask don’t tell

RELIGIOUS RIGHT

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XIII. EVENTS LEADING UP TO CIVIL WAR

EVENT DATES WHY WAS THIS EVENT IMPORTANT?

Sectionalism

Tariff of

Abominations

Nullification

Crisis

Gag Rule

The Missouri

Compromise

Compromise of

1850, including

Fugitive Slave Act

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Kansas Nebraska

Lecompton

Constitution

Popular

Sovereignty

Ostend Manifesto

25

John Brown’s Raid

on Harper’s Ferry

South Carolina

Declaration of

Secession

CAUSES OF

CIVIL WAR

Northern Interpretations

Southern Interpretations

XIV. AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

Person or Event Description

Middle Passage

Half freedom

Stono Rebellion

Slavery (almost) in

Declaration of Independence

Slavery compromises in Constitution

End of international slave trade

Nat Turner

Gabriel Prosser

Frederick Douglas

26

William Lloyd Garrison

Harriet Tubman

59th Massachusetts Regiment

Emancipation

13th , 14th, 15th Amendments

Juneteenth

BLACK CODES

PRES. ANDREW JOHNSON

RADICAL REPUBLICANS &

RECONSTRUCTION

COMPROMISE OF 1877

Sharecropping. Crop lien

KU KLUX KLAN

Reconstruction

Birth of a Nation

1920s

Jim Crow laws

Plessy v. Ferguson

Geroge Washington Carver

Booker T. Washington

W.E.B. Du Bois

NAACP

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Negro Legal Defense Fund

Lynching

Double V

Great Migration

Harlem Renaissance

Marcus Garvey

Tuskeegee Airmen

Integration of Armed Forces

Brown v. Board of Education

CIVIL RIGHT S MOVEMENT

Emmett Till

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Greensboro NC

Freedom Riders

Mississippi murders

Birmingham Bombings

March to Selma

March on Washington

Watts Riot

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

THURGOOD MARSHALL

CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS

CORE

28

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

SNCC

BLACK PANTHERS

VOTING RIGHTS ACT

CIVIL RIGHTS ACT

POLL TAX AMENDMENT

MALCOLM X

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

JESSE JACKSON

XV NATIVE AMERICANS

EVENT/PERSON DESCRIPTION

Tribes of the Eastern Woodlands

Tribes of the Southwest

Tribes of the Great Plains

PUEGOT WAR

IROQUOIS LEAGUE

FALLEN TIMBERS

TREATY OF GREENVILLE

TIPPECANOE

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TECUMSEH

TRAIL OF TEARS

LITTLE BIG HORN

CRAZY HORSE

SITTING BULL

WOUNDED KNEE

GHOST DANCE

SUN DANCE

CHIEF JOSEPH

DAWES SEVERALTY PLAN

INDIAN CITIZENSHIP ACT

INDIAN REORGANIZATION ACT

XVI WOMEN

PERSON/EVENT DESCRIPTION

ANTI-CELIBACY

PROTESTANT REVOLUTION

ANNE HUTCHINSON

SALEM WITCHCRAFT TRIALS

ABIGAIL ADAMS

REPUBLICAN MOTHERHOOD

CULT OF DOMESTICITY

30

SENECA FALLS

MARRIED WOMEN’S PROPERTY ACTS

ANGELINA AND SARAH GRIMKÉ

LUCRETIA MOTT

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

SUSAN B ANTHONY

CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT

ALICE PAUL

Where did women first get the vote?

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS

ROE V. WADE

EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT

CIVIL RIGHTS ACT/COMMISSION 1965

BETTY FRIEDAN

GLORIA STEINEM

N.O.W.

HILLARY CLINTON

XVII. U.S. REACTS TO COMMUNISM AT HOME

TERM/EVENT Dates IDENTIFICATION

COMMUNISM/KARL MARX

BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

31

US AID TO WHITE ARMY

RED SCARE AFTER WW I

Palmer raids

J. Edgar Hoover

SACCO & VANZETTI

HOUSE COMMITTEE OF UN-

AMERICAN ACTIVITIES

ALGER HISS

JOSEPH MCCARTHY

Julius & Ethel ROSENBERG

C.I.A./F.B.I.

XVIII. SCANDALS

SCANDAL DATES IDENTIFICATION

BOSS TWEED

& TAMMANY

HALL

CRÉDIT

MOBILIER

TEAPOT

DOME

WATERGATE

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IRAN-

CONTRA

MONICA

LEWINSKY

XIX. COLONIAL HISTORY

TERM IDENTIFICATION

ENCOMIENDAS

PEUBLO REVOLT

JAMESTOWN

HOUSE OF BURGESSES

PILGRIMS

Plymouth—Separatists

Massachusetts Bay Colony—

Puritans

Cotton Mather

ATLANTIC (Triangular)

TRADE

BABY BOOM

NEW SWEDEN

NEW FRANCE

La Salle, Marquette, Jolliett

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NEW AMSTERDAM

Stuyvesant

HENRY HUDSON

WILLIAM PENN

John Locke and the

constitution of the Carolinas

WILLIAM OGLETHORPE

BRITISH COLONIES:

Royal

Charter

Proprietary

GREAT AWAKENING

Jonathon Edwards

ALBANY PLAN

VIRTUAL

REPRESENTATION

XX POLITICAL PARTIES

PARTY DATES IDEAS

FEDERALIST

ANTI-FEDERALIST

DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICANS

34

DEMOCRATS (ANDREW JACKSON)

WHIGS

KNOW NOTHING

FREE SOIL

REPUBLICAN (Abraham Lincoln)

HALF BREEDS, STALWARTS,

MUGWUMPS

POPULISTS

PROGRESSIVE (Bull Moose)

SOCIALIST

DIXIECRATS

GREEN

XXI CULTURE (ART, MUSIC, LITERATURE)

NAME DATE DESCRIPTION

COLONIAL PORTRAITS

WASHINGTON IRVING

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL

HORACE MANN

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

EDGAR ALLAN POE

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

MARK TWAIN

UPTON SINCLAIR

NEW YORK REALISM (ART)

THOMAS NAST

WILLIAM RANDOLPH

HEARST

JOSEPH PULITZER

SPIRITUALS

XXII PREDEPRESSION/DEPRESSION

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

REASONS FOR THE DEPRESSION

HAWLEY SMOOT TARIFF

RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE

COPRORATION

BONUS ARMY

DUST BOWL

HUNDRED DAYS

36

BANKING ACTS

GOLD STANDARD

SEC

AAA

NRA (NIRA)

CCC

TVA

INDIAN REORGANIZATION ACT

WPA

PWA

WAGNER ACT (NLRB)

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT

COURT PACKING

FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT

PUMP PRIMING

KEYNESIAN THEORY

XXIII LABOR

ISSUE DATES DESCRIPTION

KNIGHTS OF LABOR

American Federation

of Labor

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“WOBBLIES”

PULLMAN STRIKE

HAYMARKET RIOT

RAILROAD STRIKE 1877

HOMESTEAD STRIKE

EUGENE

DEBS

1.

2.

SAMUEL

GOMPERS

TERRENCE

POWDERLY

LADIES’ GARMENT

WORKERS STRIKE

TRIANGLE

SHIRTWAIST FIRE

ADAMSON ACT

SUPREME COURT

CASES

CONGRESS OF

INDUSTRIAL

ORGANIZATIONS

WAGNER ACT

38

TAFY-HARTLEY ACT

XXIV ECONOMIC HISTORY

PERSON/EVENT DATE DESCRIPTION

MERCANTILISM

JOINT STOCK

COMPANIES

HEADRIGHT

Indenture

Redemptioners

NAVIGATION ACTS

TRIANGLE TRADE

SALUTARY NEGLECT

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,

INVENTOR

Adam Smith,

The Wealth of Nations

Laissez faire

Alexander Hamilton’s Plan

for a National Economy

National Bank

Excise Tax (Whisky Rebellion)

Revenue Tariffs

Protective Tariffs

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Assumption of State Debt

Compromise

1st Industrial Revolution

mechanical

Three inventions

Where

Power source?

Household

mode of production

MARKET ECONOMY

ELI WHITNEY

AMERICAN SYSTEM

Henry Clay

Erie Canal

National Road

CAPITALISM

2nd national bank &

Andrew Jackson

Species Circular

SOCIALISM

TRANSCONTINENTAL

RAILROAD

TELEGRAPH

40

NEW SOUTH

2ND INDUSTRIAL

REVOLUTION

ELECTRICAL

INVENTIONS

Alexander Graham Bell

Thomas Edison

CHEMICAL INVENTIONS

CORPORTATION

BUSINESS

CONSOLIDATION

HORIZONTAL TRUSTS

John D. Rockefeller

VERTICAL TRUSTS

Alexander Carnegie

SHERMAN ANTI-TRUST

ACT

U.S. v. E. C. Knight

GOSPEL OF WEALTH

SOCIAL DARWINISM

FREE SILVER v.

GOLD BUGS

HENRY FORD

Model T

Assembly line

41

CLAYTON ANTI-TRUST

ACT

UNDERHILL TARIFF

FEDERAL INCOME TAX

FEDERAL RESERVE

SUPPLY AND DEMAND

CONSUMER ECONOMY

PANIC (ECONOMIC)

1929 CRASH

Margin buying

overproduction

NEW DEAL

Classical Economic Theory

Keynesian Economic

Theory

REAGAN REVOLUTION

Laffer curve

NAFTA

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XV. IMMIGRATION

EVENT DESCRIPTION

16TH CENTURY

17TH CENTURY

18TH CENTURY

19TH CENTURY BEFORE CIVIL WAR

19TH CENTURY AFTER CIVIL WAR

In Constitution

ALIEN ACTS

CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT

GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT

NATIVISM

1924

1965

1996

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XVI. OTHER IDENTIFICATIONS

PERSON DATES SIGNIFICANCE

AARON BURR

AFFLUENT SOCIETY

ALFRED THAYER MAHAN

Antiseptics, anesthesia

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

CHARLES LINDBERGH

CAMP DAVID ACCORDS

DANIEL WEBSTER

DOROTHEA DIX

EARL WARREN

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

FREDERICK W. TAYLOR

HENRY KISSINGER

HUEY LONG

IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS

JOHN CALHOUN

JOHN MARSHALL

JOHN PETER ZENGER

JOHN ROLFE

JOSEPH G CANNON

44

KELLOGG-BRIAND ACT

KENTUCKY AND VIRGINIA

RESOLUTIONS

LEWIS AND CLARK

LOUIS BRANDEIS

MOON LANDING

NEWT GINGRICH

NICHOLAS BIDDLE

NORTHWEST ORDINANCES

RACHEL CARSON

RALPH NADER

ROBERT F. KENNEDY

ROGER WILLIAMS

ROSS PEROT

SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR

STEPHEN DOUGLAS

SPUTNIK

SUEZ CANAL CRISIS

TEMPERANCE

WESTERN LAND CESSIONS

XYZ AFFAIR

YELLOW JOURNALISM