Vocabulary from AP Curriculum by Unit (Period)
Period 1: 1491-1607
Content terms:
maize
Atlantic seaboard
Columbian Exchange
demographic
encomienda system
God, gold, glory
feudalism
capitalism
Period2: 1607-1754
Content terms:
colonization
rigid racial hierarchy
indentured servants
New England
Puritans
mixed economy
commerce/commercial
Chesapeake colonies
chattel
Southern colonies
West Indies
staple crops
Pueblo Revolt
Atlantic World
Anglicization
Protestant evangelism
Enlightenment
mercantilism
self-government
Period 3:1754-1800
Content terms:
republic
migration/immigration
Seven Years War
elites
grassroots movement
subjects
American Revolution
loyalist/patriot
Declaration of Independence
neutrality
French Revolution
Haiti
Latin America
George Washington
Farewell Address
democracy
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
Articles of Confederation
central power (government)
property qualification
Constitution
federalism
separation of powers
Bill of Rights
ratification process
political parties
framers
backcountry culture
missions
Appalachian Mts.
Vocabulary:
subjugation
autonomy
Vocabulary:
folkway
perpetuity
overt
covert
homogeneous
flourish
commodities
diverge
accommodation
philosophical
stereotype
gradations
imperial
coherent
scant
ideology
Vocabulary:
culminating
encroachment
perceive
artisan
resilient
domestic
initiative
partisan
fervor
evangelical
popular
centralized
interstate
ratify
reverberate
abolition
institutions
Northwest Ordinance
public education
Mississippi River
national identity
regional identity
republican motherhood
Period 4: 1800-1848
Content terms:
mass democracy
constituencies
interest group
Federalists/ Democratic Republicans
Democrats/Whigs
Second Great Awakening
liberal
Romantic beliefs
abolitionism
xenophobia
Old World v. New World
textile
steam engine
interchangeable parts
canal/roads
telegraph
semi-subsistent agriculture
specialization
American System
Midwest
market revolution
national bank
tariffs
isolationism
Louisiana Purchase
1820 Missouri Compromise
Period 5: 1844-1877
Content terms:
expansionism
migration/immigration
Manifest Destiny
Mexican-American War
ethnic communities
nativism
Civil War
sectionalism
free labor manufacturing
abolitionists
states' rights
nullification
secession
Election of 1860
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott decision
Republican Party
Abraham Lincoln
free soil platform
Reconstruction
Confederacy
Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment
sharecropping system
radical v. moderate Republicans
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
segregation
Period 6: 1865-1898
Content terms:
Gilded Age
urbanization
Vocabulary:
coalesce
primacy
concurrent
secular
emancipation
precipitate
profound
innovation
livelihood
trump
diplomatic
assert
arable
broad-scale
Vocabulary:
infrastructure
amendment
embolden
Vocabulary:
consolidation
subsidies
monopolies
corporations
trusts
holding companies
Social Darwinism
conspicuous consumption
unions
New South
tenant farming
conservation
preservation
Populist Party
political machines
settlement house
transcontinental railroad
reservation
assimilation
laissez-faire
Plessy v. Ferguson
utopianism
Social Gospel
Period 7: 1890-1945
Content terms:
pluralistic
business cycle
Great Depression
Progressive Reform
welfare state
liberalism
FDR
New Deal
relief, recovery, reform
conservatives
modernization
tradition v. innovation
urban v. rural
fundamentalist Christianity v. scientific modernism
management v. labor
native born v. immigrants
white v. black
idealism v. disillusionment
Harlem Renaissance
World War I
xenophobia
civil liberties
strikes
Red Scare
quotas
Great Migration
Frontier closed
imperialism
Spanish-American War
Philippino insurrection
anti-imperialist
interventionists v. isolationists
neutrality
Woodrow Wilson
American Expeditionary Force
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
World War II
Pearl Harbor
Japanese internment
atomic bombs
Axis
Allied powers
contend
tandem
engender
buttressed
inevitable
Vocabulary:
multifaceted
repressive
strife
advocate
protracted
unilateral
Period 8: 1945-1980
Content terms:
collective security
containment
Korean Conflict
Vietnam Conflict
detente
decolonization
nationalist movements
nonaligned countries
Cold War
oil crisis
military industrial complex
liberalism
non-violent protest
desegregation of military
Brown v. Bd. of Education 1954
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Lyndon Johnson
Great Society
private sector
baby boom
suburbanization
Sun Belt
conformity
Immigration Act of 1965
counterculture
sexual revolution
Period 9: 1980-Present
Content terms:
globalization
neoconservative
religious fundamentalism
deregulation
big government
Ronald Reagan
Mikhail Gorbachev
arms reduction
9/11 Attacks
War on Terror
Afghanistan
Iraq conflict
Free Trade Agreements
climate change
fossil fuels
computer/internet revolution
Vocabulary:
efficacy
redress
resurgent
zenith
burgeoning
Vocabulary:
dissemination
inertia
bellicose
rhetoric
stagnated