History : USA

Whether you are a teacher or parent who is teaching children the alphabet, or just someone who loves words, alphabetizing, alliteration, or all of the above, we hope you find these word lists useful.

These are not meant to be exhaustive--just thorough, covering the basics from many categories that can be tied to the academic curriculum.

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A

Abolition, Adams (Abigail), Adams (John Quincey), Adams (John), Alamo, Amendments, Anthony (Susan B.), Antietam, Apache, Apollo 11, Armstrong (Neil)

B

Baby Boomers, Bill of Rights, Bootleggers, Boston Tea Party, Buchanan (James), Bull Run (Battle), Bunker Hill (Battle), Bush (George H. W.), Bush (George W.)

C

Carnegie (Andrew), Carter (Jimmy), Chamberlain (Joshua Lawrence), Cherokee, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Cleveland (Grover), Clinton (Bill), Cold War, Columbus (Christopher), Confederacy, Constitution, Continental Congress, Coolidge (Calvin), Cuban Missile Crisis

D

D-Day, Declaration of Independence, Disney (Walt), Douglass (Frederick), Dust Bowl

E

Earhart (Amelia), Edison (Thomas), Eisenhower (Dwight), Emancipation Proclamation

F

Ford (Gerald), Fort Knox, Franklin (Benjamin), French and Indian War

G

Gates (Bill), Generation X, Gettysburg, Gilded Age, Gold Rush, Gone with the Wind, Grant (Ulysses), Great Depression

H

Hamilton (Alexander), Harlem Reniassance, Hawthorne (Nathaniel), Hemmingway (Ernest), Hiroshima, Hoover (Herbert), Huckleberry Finn

I

Immigration, Inauguration, Independence Hall, Industrial Revolution, Iroquois, Iwo Jima (Battle)

J

Jackson (Andrew), Jamestown, Jazz Age, Jefferson (Thomas), Jim Crow Laws, Jobs (Steve), Johnson (Lyndon B.)

K

Kennedy (John F.), Key (Francis Scott), King (Martin Luther), King Philip’s War, Kitty Hawk (First Flight), Korean War

L

Lafayette (Marquis), Lewis and Clark Expedition, Liberty Bell, Lincoln (Abraham), Lindbergh (Charles), Longfellow (Henry Wadsworth), Louisiana Territory

M

Madison (James), Malcolm X, Manifest Destiny, Mayflower, Millay (Edna St. Vincent), Monroe (James)

N

NASA, Native Americans, Nixon (Richard)

O

Obama (Barack)

P

Panama Canal, Parks (Rosa), Pearl Harbor, Pilgrims, Pioneers, Pocahontas, Poe (Edgar Allen), Polk (James), Powhatan, Prohibition, Puritans

R

Reagan (Ronald), Reconstruction Era, Revolutionary War, Rockefeller (John D.), Roosevelt (Eleanor), Roosevelt (Franklin D.), Roosevelt (Theodore), Ross (Betsy)

S

Sakagawea, Seminole, Seneca Falls, September 11, Sioux, Smith (John), Social Security, Space Race, Spirit of St. Louis, Squanto, Stanton (Elizabeth Cady), Star Spangled Banner, Statue of Liberty, Stowe (Harriet Beecher)