Social Studies: American History
Academic Vocabulary
affirmed
analyze
cause, effect
cite
cite and explain
cite specific examples
compare
compare and contrast
confrontation
deliberation
describe
describe how
develop
essay
evaluate
evolved
examine
explain
explain how
explain why
explicit
hypothesize
identify
incorporated
list
opponent
persuasion
proponent
provision
rationale
reference
sequence
summarize
synthesize
tactic
Content Vocabulary
Topic: Historical Thinking and Skills 1
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primary resources
secondary resources
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historical events
theses
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secondary resources
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multiple causation
long- and short-term
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declaration
independence
colony
colonist
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territory
precedent
precursor
Topic: Historical Thinking and Skills 2
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primary resources
Topic: Historical Thinking and Skills 3
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refute positions
Topic: Historical Thinking and Skills 4
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historical events
correlation
Topic: Historic Documents 5
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natural rights
social contract
grievance
tyranny
rights
Topic: Historic Documents 6
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cede
treaty
ordinance
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Topic: Historic Documents 7
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federalism
provision
checks and balances
separation of powers
legislation
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executive
judicial
preamble
Constitution
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federalist
anti-federalist
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English Bill of Rights
Virginia Declaration of Rights
amendment
limited government
Topic: Historic Documents 8
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faction
ratification
convention
Topic: Historic Documents 9
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Bill of Rights
habeas corpus
trial by jury
quartering
Magna Carta
Topic: Industrialization and Progressivism (1877-1920) 10
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industrialization
agrarian
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American economy
Topic: Industrialization and Progressivism (1877-1920) 11
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nativism
labor union
organized labor
laissez-faire
strike
sit-in
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arbitration
anarchy
socialist
radical
communist
industrialization
Topic: Industrialization and Progressivism (1877-1920) 12
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assimilation
immigration
emigration
migration
ethnic cities
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Angel Island
Ellis Island
nativism
Gentlemen’s Agreement
Chinese Exclusion Act
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Topic: Industrialization and Progressivism (1877-1920) 13
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Jim Crow laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
segregation
poll taxes
literacy tests
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grandfather clause
Freedmen’s Bureau
Ku Klux Klan
Discrimination
Topic: Industrialization and Progressivism (1877-1920) 14
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labor unions
political machines
settlement houses
injunction
muckrakers
imitative
referendum
recall
Robert LaFollette
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
Eugene Debs
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Tammany Hall
Lochner v. New York
Muller v. Oregon
monopoly
pools
trusts
Populists
Social Gospel movement
American Railway Union
Knights of Labor
Industrial Workers of the World
scabs
American Federation of Labor
Topic: Foreign Affairs from Imperialism to Post-World War I (1898-1930) 15
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imperialism
Social Darwinism
colony
protectorate
white man’s burden
Roosevelt Corollary
Monroe Doctrine
Platt Amendment
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Open Door policy
sphere of influence
Foraker Act
Alfred T. Mahan
Frontier Thesis
dollar diplomacy
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
Topic: Foreign Affairs from Imperialism to Post-World War I (1898-1930) 16
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neutrality
reparations
Nye committee
merchants of death
Dawes Plan
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Washington Naval Conference
Kellogg-Briand Pact
League of Nations
Fourteen Points
self-determination
Topic: Prosperity, Depression, and the New Deal (1919-1941) 17
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Great Migration
Ku Klux Klan
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Palmer raids
Emergency Quota Act
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nativism
National Origins Act
Industrial Workers of the World
Marxism
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capitalism
anarchy
Sacco and Vanzetti
Topic: Prosperity, Depression, and the New Deal (1919-1941) 18
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flappers
Scopes trial
mass production
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assembly line
consumerism
Henry Ford
Topic: Prosperity, Depression, and the New Deal (1919-1941) 19
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Jazz Age
Harlem Renaissance
speakeasies
organized crime
bootlegging
Great Migration
lynching
18th Amendment
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19th Amendment
21st Amendment
Scopes trial
Fundamentalism
Modernism
Traditionalism
Marcus Garvey
Topic: Prosperity, Depression, and the New Deal (1919-1941) 20
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New Deal
relief, recovery, reform
speculation
stock market
Federal Reserve System
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debt/credit
buying on margin
investor
monetary policy
government assistance
Topic: From Isolation to World War (1930-1945) 21
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Monroe Doctrine
Roosevelt Corollary
totalitarianism
intervention
neutrality
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isolationism
cash and carry
Lend-Lease
expansionism
devolution
Topic: From Isolation to World War (1930-1945) 22
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mobilization
Selective Service/draft
ration/rationing
wage and price controls
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war bonds
internment camp
reallocation
regulations
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Topic: The Cold War (1945-1991) 23
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atomic/nuclear bomb
superpower
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deterrent
arms race
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Warsaw Pact
collective security
limited war
policy
hegemony
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The Rosenbergs
loyalty checks
blacklist
Hollywood Ten
civil liberties
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Great Society
domino theory
Vietnamization
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suburbanization
conservatism
limited war
Cold War
Topic: The Cold War (1945-1991) 24
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containment
Soviet-style communism
Chinese Communist Revolution
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
NATO
Topic: The Cold War (1945-1991) 25
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Red Scare
House Un-American Activities Committee
(HUAC)
McCarthy Hearings
McCarthyism
Congressional immunity
subversion/infiltration
Topic: The Cold War (1945-1991) 26
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Cold War
United Nations (U.N.)
space race
SEATO
Topic: The Cold War (1945-1991) 27
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containment
collective security
communism
deterrence
national security
Topic: Social Transformations in the United States (1945-1994) 28
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integration
segregation
civil resistance (disobedience)
civil rights
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affirmative action
separatism
equality
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Topic: Social Transformations in the United States (1945-1994) 29
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region
Sunbelt
demand
urban
suburban
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high-tech industry
baby boom
consumerism
mobility
Topic: Social Transformations in the United States (1945-1994) 30
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migration
demographic
reapportionment
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Rust Belt
internal migration
Topic: Social Transformations in the United States (1945-1994) 31
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political activism
inequity
social welfare
environmentalism
poverty
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national health insurance
national security
Earth Day
EPA
Topic: United States and the Post-Cold War World (1991-Present) 32
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globalization
transnational business organization
trade deficit
balance of trade
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trade surplus
outsourcing
service industry
Topic: United States and the Post-Cold War World (1991-Present) 33
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terrorism
war on terror
Taliban
U.S. Patriot Act
preemptive war
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Bush Doctrine
peace dividend
proliferation
trade surplus
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