Content Vocabulary at each grade level by Unit supported by McDougal Littell Textbooks for 7th and 8th Grade Unit 1 7th Grade Chapters 1 & 2 Geography Continents Landform Weather Climate Cartography Projection Hemisphere Latitude Longitude Archaeology Artifact Excavation Anthropology Culture History Historian Primary source Oral history Secondary source Republic Augustus Empire Emperor Christianity Constantine Clovis Byzantine Empire Justinian I Justinian Code Schism Roman Catholic Orthodox Mosaic Stoicism Aqueducts 8th Grade Chapters 1-5 Migrated Domestication Civilization Culture Irrigation Mound builders Technology Tundra Kayaks Matrilineal Iroquois league Muslims Islam Mali Songhai European Middle Ages Crusades Printing press Reformation Profit Christopher Columbus Treaty of Tordesillas Missionaries Mercantilism Conquistators Hernando Cortes Amerigo Vespucci Montezuma Francisco Pizarro John Cabot Giovanni da Verrazzano Jacques Cartier Spanish Armada Samuel de Champlain New France Viceroyalty Encomienda Haciendas Missions Pope 2008 CST Release 6th Grade Ancient Civilizations Stone age Slash-and-burn Permanent settlements Monotheism Hammurabi’s Code Mesopotamian society Currency Officials Art and architecture Ancient Egypt Tyrant Parthenon Pharaoh Pyramid Assyrian Hebrew Temple Cuneiform Hieroglyphics Representative government TheTen Commandments Parliamentary Moral Ethical Feudal Class system Jewish God’s laws Abraham Solomon Moses David Mountainous terrain Islands Political system Independent city-states Culture Empire Plantations Bartolome’ de Las Casas Columbian Exchange Slavery African Diaspora Middle passage Slave codes Racism Joint-stock company Jamestown John smith Indentured servants House of Burgesses Bacon’s Rebellion Pilgrims Mayflower Compact Puritans Great Migration Fundamental Orders of Connecticut Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson King Philip’s War Patron Duke of York Propriety colony William Penn Quakers Royal colony James Oglethorpe Subsistence farming Triangular trade Navigation Acts Smuggling Cash crops Gristmill Diversity Artisans Indigo Eliza Lucas Overseers Appalachian Mountains Clans Apprentice Great Awakening Economic system Mining Society Athenians Myths Epics Iliad Justify Persian Empire Alexander the Great Democratic rule Macedonia Hellenistic world Indus River Valley Early civilization’s location Emperor Shi Huangdi Mongol Hindu Checks and balances U.S. Political System French Monarchy Roman Republic Aztec Empire Unit 2 Chapters 3 & 4 Nomads Oasis Clans Allah Monotheism Pilgrimage Islam Muslims Hirjah Qur’an Sunnah Mosque Caliph Shi’a Sunnis Iberian Peninsula Bureaucracy Abd al-Malik Standing army Baghdad Golden age Calligraphy Omar Khayyam Factions Al-Andalus Cordoba Abd al Rahman III Mercenaries Jonathan Edwards George Whitefield Enlightenment Benjamin Franklin John Locke Parliament Glorious Revolution English Bill of Rights Salutary neglect Albany Plan of Union Battle of Quebec Pontiac’s Rebellion Treaty of Paris Proclamation of 1763 Chapters 6-8 King George III Quartering Act Revenue Sugar Act Stamp Act Patrick Henry Boycott Sons of Liberty Townshend Acts Writs of assistance Samuel Adams Boston Massacre John Adams Committees of correspondence Boston Tea Party Intolerable Acts First Continental Congress Paul Revere Lexington and Concord Loyalists Patriots Ethan Allen Artillery Second continental Congress Continental Army Benedict Arnold Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson George Washington Mercenary Strategy Rendezvous Battle of Saratoga Marquis de Lafayette Desert Bayonets Privateer John Paul Jones James Forten Lord Cornwallis Guerrillas Pacifist Battle of Yorktown Treaty of Paris Republicanism Wilderness Road Articles of Confederation Land Ordinance of 1785 Northwest Territory Northwest Ordinance Republic Shay’s Rebellion Constitutional Convention James Madison Virginia Plan New Jersey Plan Great Compromise 3/5ths Compromise Federalism Federalists Antifederalists The Federalist Papers George Mason Bill of Rights Republicanism Popular sovereignty Separation of powers Checks and balances Limited government Individual rights Unit 3 Chapters 5 & 6 Kinship Clans Labor specializations Griots Vegetation zone Sahara Savannah Ghana Almoravids Mali Sundiata Timbuktu Mansa musa Askia Muhammad Kongo Alfonso I Chapters 9-14 Inaugurated Federal judiciary act Cabinet Tariff Battle of Fallen Timbers Treaty of Greenville Whiskey Rebellion French Revolution Jay’s Treaty Pinckney’s Treaty Foreign policy Political party XYZ Affair Alien and Sedition Acts States’ rights Radicals Judiciary Act of 1801 John Marshall Unconstitutional Judicial review Louisiana Purchace Meriwether Lewis William Clark Lewis and Clark expedition Sacagawea Zebulon Pike Impressment Embargo Act of 1807 War Hawks Tecumseh Oliver Hazzard Perry Francis Scott Key Treaty of Ghent Industrial Revolution Factory system Lowell mills Interchangeable parts Robert Fulton Samuel F.B. Morse Eli Whitney Cotton Gin Spirituals Nat Turner 7th Grade Medieval Times Carthage Roman Empire North Africa Asia Minor Northern Europe The Middle East Christianity Judaism Islam Hinduism Arabian Technology Nomadic Central Asia Mongols Conquest Constantinople Caravan routes Merchant fleets National currency Arabs Swedes Russians Turks Arabs Japanese Europeans African Mali Ghana Extensive farming Maritime trade Trade routes Mountainous location Defensible Central Africa Sahara Missionaries Middle East North Africa Confucian Buddhist Samurai Protective tariff National bank Transportation system Erie Canal James Monroe Sectionalism Missouri Compromise Monroe Doctrine Hindu Legions Merchants Nobility Serfs Knights Parish priests Minor nobility Nobles Church officials Middle class Magna Carta Model Parliament Habaes Corpus Act Glorious Revolution Pope Holy Roman Empire Catholic Church Constitutional government Absolute monarchy Crusades Economies Crusaders Monetary inflation Spices Yellow fever Cholera Bubonic Plague Malaria Inca Civilization Aztec society Slavery Religious ceremonies Central Mexico Spanish Starvation Disease Maya Aztec Seafaring traditions Monotheistic Democratic governments Complex architectural structures Marco Polo Feudal land Muslims Renaissance Realistic Artist Architect Mathematician Anatomy Mural Mona Lisa Raphael Michelangelo Da Vinci Botticelli English Renaissance Johann Gutenberg William Shakespeare Dante Alighieri Mighel de Cervantes Protestant Church of England Lutheran beliefs Pope Calvanist Spanish Inquisition Exchange of goods Heretics Galileo Newton Scientific thought Classic philosophers Observation and experimentation Natural laws Kepler Van Leeuwenhoek Triangle Trade Columbian Exhange Scientific Revolution Human reason Organized church John Locke Republic Dictatorship Representative democracy Constitutional monarchy Natural rights Separation of powers Political equity Enlightenment Magna Carta English Bill of Rights Religious freedom Divine right Commoners Unit 4 Chapters 7 & 8 Nomad Confucianism Buddhism Daoism Reunify Imperial Bureaucracy Scholar-official Wood-block printing Movable type Porcelain Genghis Khan Kublai Khan Mongol Ascendancy Marco Polo Forbidden City Maritime Tribute Zheng He Manchus Shinto Regent Prince Shotoku Embassy Zen Kabuki Lady Murasaki Shikibu Noh Chapters 12-14 John Q. Adams Andrew Jackson Jacksonian Democracy Spoils system Indian Removal Act Indian Territory Osceola Tariff of Abominations Doctrine of Nullification Daniel Webster Secession Inflation Martin Van Buren Panic of 1837 Depression Whig party Land speculators Santé fe Trail Oregon Trail Brigham Young Tejanos Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana Sam Houston Battle of the Alamo Lone Star Republic Manifest destiny Zachary Taylor Winfield Scott Mexican Cession Unit 5 Haiku Daimyo Samurai Vassal Shoguns Tokugawa Shogunate Koryo Celadon Nam Viet Khmer Empire Angkor Wat Treaty of Guadalupe Hidlago Californios Mariano Vallejo John Sutter James Sutter James Marshall Gold Rush Steerage Push-pull factors Famine Prejudice Nativists Hudson River School Transcendentalism Civil disobedience Second Great Awakening Temperance movement Labor union Strike Horace Mann Dorothea Dix Frederick Douglas Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton Underground Railroad Seneca Falls Convention Suffrage Chapters 9 & 10 Middle Ages Charlemagne Monasteries Feudalism Lord Serfs Manor Knight Chivalry Guilds Bushido Epic poem Chapters 15-18 Wilmot Proviso Free-soil Party Stephen Douglas Compromise of 1850 Henry Clay Fugitive Slave Act Popular Sovereignty Kansas-Nebraska Act John Brown Republican Party John C. Fremont Dred Scott v. Sandford 8th Grade U.S. History The Great Awakening Declaration of Independence Monarchy Parliament Colonists Constitution Council of Trent Mayflower Compact Self-government Clergy Pope Gregory VII Emperor Henry IV Religious order Francis of Assisi Thomas Aquinas Seljuk Turks Crusades Saladin Reconquista Inquisition Bubonic plague Hundred Years’ War Joan of Arc Longbow King John Magna Carta Parliament Habeas corpus Osman Divan Janissaries Abraham Lincoln Harper’s Ferry Platform Secede Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis Fort Sumter Robert E. Lee Border states King cotton Anaconda Plan Blockade Bull Run Civil War Hygiene Rifle Minie ball Ironclads Ulysses S. Grant Battle of Shiloh Cavalry Battle of Antietam Emancipation Proclamation 54th Massachusetts Regiment Copperheads Conscription Bounties Income tax Green-backs Battle of Gettysburg Pickett’s charge Vicksburg William Tecumseh Sherman Appomattox Court House John Wilkes Booth Reconstruction Freedman’s Bureau Andrew Johnson Black codes Civil Rights 14th Amendment Separation of powers Freedom of expression Federalism Delegated Tenth Amendment Annexation Balance of powers Legislative houses George Mason Patrick Henry Roger Williams Fundamental liberties Citizens Preamble Enumerated powers Judicial branch Bill of rights Alexander Hamilton Small farmers Tobacco planters Business owners Frontier settlers Thomas Jefferson Tariffs Merchants U.S. Bill of Rights Articles of Confederation Declaration of Independence Missouri Compromise Gadsden Purchase Louisiana Purchase Washington’s Farewell Address Conflict with Mexico Monroe Doctrine Slavery Cotton gin Slave-based agricultural system Civil War Plantation owners Horace Greeley Farmers Alliance Populist Party Freedmen’s schools Sharecropping KKK Lynched 15th Amendment Panic of 1873 Compromise of 1877 Manifest Destiny Temperance movement Industrial cities Discovery of gold Fur trade American Indians Social Contract Isolationism Monroe Doctrine Indian Removal Act Cherokee Supreme Court Factory Mission Capitalist Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman William Lloyd Garrison Phillis Wheatley Sarah Grimke Compromise of 1850 Bleeding Kansas Irish immigrants Dred Scott State’s rights Kentucky and Virginia Resolves Missouri Compromise Nullification Crisis Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Speech Blockade Latin America Cuba and Mexico War supplies Union strategy Reconstruction War debts Freedman’s Bureau 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments Civil rights Checks and balances Rapid economic change Labor strife Farm protests Immigrants Document questions: Bar graph Poster Excerpt statement Map Quotation Unit 6 Chapters 11 & 12 Meso-America Yacatan Peninsula Elevation Slash-and-burn agriculture Maize Cacao Olmec Alluvial soil Elite Glyphs Mother culture Maya Steles Codex Tenochtitlan Montezuma II Hernan Cortes Pachacuti Chasquis Francisco Pizarro Quipu Chapters 19-21 Frontier Great plains Boomtown Long drives Vaqueros Vigilantes Sand creek massacre Sitting Bull George A. Custer Little Bighorn Dawes Act Homestead Mixicanos Buffalo soldiers Buffalo Bill Homestead Act Exodusters Sodbuster Grange Cooperatives Populist party Gold standard William Jennings Bryan Patent Bessemer steel process Generator Thomas Edison Alexander Graham Bell Transcontinental railroad Standard time Corporation J.D. Rockerfeller Andrew Carnegie Monopoly Trust Philanthropists Gilded Age Sweatshops Knights of Labor Haymarket affair Pullman strike Eugene V. Debs Samuel Gompers AF of L Urbanization Tenement Slum Social gospel Jane Adams Ellis Island Melting pot Assimilation Chinese Exclusion Act Jim Crow Segregation Plessy v. Ferguson Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Du Bois Joseph Pulitzer William Randolph Hearst Department Stores Mail-order catalogs Leisure Vaudeville Ragtime Unit 7 Chapters 13 & 14 Silk roads Humanism Renaissance Patrons Perspective Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo William Shakespeare Elizabethan Age Vernacular Johann Gutenberg Chapters 22-25 Muckrakers Direct primary Sherman Antitrust Act Theodore Roosevelt William H. Taft 16th Amendment 17th Amendment Federal Reserve Act Susan B. Anthony 19th Amendment Imperialism William Seward Printing Press The Great Schism Indulgence Martin Luther Protestant Reformation John Calvin Predestination Jesuits St. Ignatius of Loyola Inquistion Missionary Convert Covenant Federalism Queen Liliuokalani Yellow journalism USS Maine Rough Riders Platt Amendment Anti-Imperialist League Spheres of influence Open Door Policy Boxer Rebellion Panama Canal Roosevelt Corollary Central powers Allies Trench warfare u-boats Woodrow Wilson Neutrality American Expeditionary Force Convoy system Armistice War bonds Propaganda Espionage Act Sedition Act Great Migration Wilson’s 14 points Treaty of Versailles Repartations Red Scare Palmer raids Jazz Calvin Coolidge Great Depression New Deal Franklin D. Roosevelt Benito Mussolini Fascism Adolf Hitler Nazi Party WWII Dwight D. Eisenhower Holocaust Cold War Containment J.F. Kennedy LBJ Richard Nixon Viet Nam War Watergate Martin Luther King Jr. Great Society Counterculture Unit 8 Chapters 15 & 16 Rationalism Geocentric theory Harmony Anatomy Dissection Scientific Revolution Heliocentric Universal gravitation Scientific method Sponsor Cararvel Astrolabe Treaty of Tordesillas Circumnavigate Columbian Exchange Triangular trade Mercantilism Enlightenment Natural rights Philosophes Voltaire Montesquieu Rousseau Locke Salons Enlightened despot Serfdom Declaration of Independence The Constitution Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen Bill of Rights