APUSH VOCABULARY
From Concept Outline and Outside Information Discussed in Class
Bold words are explicit in Curriculum Framework, the larger the font… the higher the likelihood of
being
tested. Non-Bolded Words = illustrative examples” and other items discussed in class; terms useful as
background information in SAQs, LEs, and DBQs.
Period 1: 1491 – 1607
Acoma Massacre, African
slavery, Algonquian, American Indians, Anasazi, Atlantic
Seaboard, Bartolome De Las Casas, Cahokia, capitalism, California, caste
Christopher Columbus, Columbian
system, Chinook,
Exchange (horses, cows, sugar, silver, smallpox, corn, potatoes),
defeat of the Spanish Armada, encomienda
system, European Expansion (global perspective),
Exploration and conquest of America, feudalism, Great Basin, improvements in technology,
international trade, Iroquois, Juan de Onate, maize, Maroon Communities, Mestizo, Metis, present-day
Mexico, Mission
settlements (missionaries), mobile lifestyles, Prince Henry the Navigator, Pueblo,
sextant, Societies of Northwest, Spanish
and Portuguese Exploration and Traders,
Spanish mission system, joint-stock companies, Juan de Sepulveda, smallpox, “Triangular
(furs, tobacco, Carolinas-rice, Barbados – sugar), white superiority, Zambo
Trade”
Period 2: 1607 – 1754
Africans, African
chattel, American Indians (and American Indian groups), American Indian
allies, American Indian warfare, Anglicization, Atlantic slave trade, Atlantic world,
Atlantic economy, Bacon’s Rebellion, Beaver Wars, British Imperial System, British
colonies, British-American system of slavery, Casta system, Catawba nation,
Chesapeake colonies, Clipper Ships, colonial citizens, colonial governance, colonial
resistance, colonial societies, colonial wars, commodities, diseases, Dominion of New England,
Dutch colonies, English, English colonists’ worldviews, Europeans, European leaders,
European Enlightenment, escape, French colonies, hierarchical imperial structure,
Huron Confederacy, imperial goals, imperial system, white indentured
servants, intercultural
contact, Joint-Stock company, liberty, mercantilist economic aims, Metis, Middle
Colonies, Molasses Act, Mulatto, Native communities, Navigation Acts, North Carolina, Pueblo,
Pennsylvania founding, political communities, Praying Towns, Protestant evangelism, Pueblo
Revolt, Puritans, religious independence and diversity, republicanism, Jean Rousseau, John Locke,
Maryland Toleration Act, New
England colonies, North America, North American empire,
patterns of colonization, racial categories, racial gradation, racial stereotyping, religious
toleration, sabotage, self government, Scots-Irish, Shared labor market, Adam Smith, Staple
crops, Stamp Act, Anglicization, Colonization, Enlightenment, European Expansion (global perspective), First
Great Awakening, King Phillips War, rebellion, social and economic values, colonies along the
Southernmost Atlantic coast (South Carolina, Georgia), sources of labor, Spain, Spanish
colonies, trade goods,
European goods, furs,
Trans-Atlantic print-culture, “Triangular
Trade” (New World and
tobacco, Carolinas-rice, Barbados – sugar), Vaqueros, religious conversion
among Wampanoag leading to King Philips War, Wool Act, Hereditary privilege, mercantilist economic aims
(mercantilism), Shared labor market – sharing of labor between eastern and western hemispheres during
colonial period.
Period 3: 1754 – 1800
Abigail Adams, alliances, Allen Richard, American Indians, American political culture,
American political thinkers, American republic, American
Revolution, Articles
of Confederation, backcountry cultures, Battle of Fallen Timbers, Bill of Rights,
bonded labor, California, colonial independence movement, colonial
war for
independence, Common Sense (Thomas Paine), Committees of correspondence,
compromises, Constitution (US), cultural blending, Declaration of
Independence, democratic ideas, Democratic-Republican Party, domestic and
international tensions, encroachment, Enlightenment, Federalism, Federalists,
foreign policy, framers, French Revolution, French-Indian fur-trade,
French withdrawal, frontier versus tidewater Virginia, Gradual Emancipation (Pennsylvania),
Hamilton’s Financial Plan, individual talent over hereditary privilege, Haiti, imperial control,
imperial struggles, interchangeable
parts, Intolerable Acts, Iroquois Confederation, Jay’s Treaty,
Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, legislative branch, “Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer,” Chief Little
Turtle and the Western Confederacy, Loyalist, migrants, Mississippi River, Molasses Act, Mulatto,
National Bank, neutral trading rights, North American colonists, Northwest
Ordinance,
Northwest Territory, partisan, Patriot, Paxton Boys, permanent foreign alliances, Pinckney’s
treaty, political parties, Pontiac’s Rebellion, Proclamation of 1763, Proclamation of Neutrality, Property
qualifications, Protestant evangelical religious fervor, rebellions, regional attitudes and cultures,
Regulators, Republicanism, republican form of government, republican self-government, republican
values, “Republican motherhood”, Scots-Irish, Shays’ Rebellion, Separation of Powers , Seven
Years’ War (Britain’s victory over France in the imperial struggle for North America), slavery, Spain
(diplomatic initiatives with), Spanish, state
constitutions, taxes, Sons of Liberty, Stamp Act, Trans-
Appalachian West, treaties (relationship between American Indian tribes and the national government…), Mercy
Otis Warren, George Washington,
Rebellion, white-Indian
Washington’s Farewell Address, Western migration, Whiskey
conflicts
Period 4: 1800 – 1848
Abolition/abolitionists, Richard Allen, American Colonization Society, American Indians, American
System, anthracite coal mining, anti-black sentiments, anti-Indian policies, Asia, Asian
Americans, John Audubon, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Canals, Charles Finney, communications revolution,
Corrupt Bargain, Cult of domesticity, debates over the tariff and internal improvements, Democratic
Party,
Democratic-Republican Party, Frederick Douglass, early labor unions, emancipation plans, Embargo
Act, Evangelical
Christian churches, Charles G. Finney, free African Americans, free and forced
migration, French Revolution, global market, William Lloyd Garrison, Hartford Convention, Hudson
River School, Indian Removal Act, innovations (textile machinery, steam engines, interchangeable
parts, canals, railroads, telegraph, agricultural inventions) Lowell System, Louisiana
Macon’s Bill No.2, Market
Purchase,
Revolution, McCulloch vs. Maryland, Mechanical Reaper,
Mexican-American War, migrants, Missouri Compromise, Monroe Doctrine,
Mormons, Mulatto, nationalism, National Bank, national compromise, national culture, national
economy, Non-Intercourse Act, Nullification Crisis, Northeast, Old Northwest, Oregon border, over
cultivation, participatory democracy, political parties,
Property qualifications to vote,
proslavery arguments, Railroad Building, regional identity, reforms, resistance
from state governments, Second B.U.S., Second Great Awakening, sectional
tensions, Seminole Wars, Seneca Falls Convention, Samuel Slater, settlement patterns, slavery, slave
music, slave trade, social hierarchy, The South, Southern cotton, Steel Plow, Nat Turner, Western
Hemisphere, Evangelical religious fervor, foreign policy, free-labor manufacturing economy, annexing Texas,
Utopian societies, David Walker, War Hawks, Webster-Ashburton Treaty, Whigs, Women’s
Movement, Worcester vs. Georgia
Rights
Period 5: 1844 – 1877
10% plan, Abolitionists,
Texas, Asian
African Americans, American Indians, anaconda plan, Annexing
Americans, balance of power, Black Codes, John Brown, Blanche Bruce, John C.
Calhoun, Lydia Child, citizenship rights, Civil
Rights, Civil War, Civil War
Amendments, clipper ships, Colored Farmer’s Alliance, Compromise of 1850,
Confederacy, Confederate leadership, Confederate States of America, Crittenden Compromise,
Jim Crow, cultural differences, demographic changes, divisible union, Election
of 1860,
Emancipation Proclamation, European powers, free labor
manufacturing, Freedmans Bureau, Free Soilers, U.S. Grant, Gettysburg, Gold Rush, Hispanics,
Homestead Act, Kansas/Nebraska
Act, KKK, Know Nothings, Robert E. Lee, Abraham
Lincoln, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, March to the Sea (Sherman), Mariano Vallejo, Manifest Destiny,
Mexican-American War, migrant population, missionaries, Mormons, National Parks,
nativism, nativist movement, new international migrants, new markets, new
territory, Northern idea of American identity, nullification, Parochial Schools,
Commodore Mathew Perry’s expedition to Japan, personal liberty, political tactics, power relationships,
Positive Good theory, racial attitudes, racist stereotyping, radical and
moderate Republicans, Reconstruction, regional economic changes, regional
tensions, Republican Party, Hiram Revels, Sand Creek Massacre, Dred Scott decision,
Secession, sectional tension, second party system, sectional parties,
segregation, Sharecropping, slave based agriculture, Robert Smalls, social and
economic patterns, Southern defense of slavery, States’ Rights, Supreme Court
decisions, Territorial boundaries, territorial expansion, Thirteenth-Fourteenth-Fifteenth
Amendments, Union, Union army, Webster-Ashburton Treaty , The West, westward
expansion, western resources, women’s rights movement
Period 6: 1865 – 1898
Jane Addams, African Americans, American Federation of Labor, Americanization,
American Indians, American Indian Tribal identities, American Protective Association, Anthracite
coal mining, assimilationist policies, Edward Bellamy, big
business, Boomtown areas of West,
Andrew Carnegie, capitalist system, Chief Joseph, child labor, Chinese Exclusion Act, Closing of the Frontier,
Colored Farmers’ Alliance, competition for land (white settlers, Indians, Mexican Americans),
conservationist organizations, conspicuous
consumption, corruption in government, corporate
ethic, Credit Mobilier, cultural and intellectual movements, Dawes Act, W.E.B. DuBois, economic issues
(tariffs,
currency, corporate expansion, laissez-faire economic policy), farmers,
farmers alliance, foreign policy makers, Henry George, Ghost Dance Movement, Gilded
of Wealth, government subsidies, Grange Movement, Holding
Age, Gospel
companies, How the Other Half
Lives, Indian Wars, industrialization, industrial culture, industrial workforce,
international and internal migration, Interstate Commerce Act, Florence Kelley, Knights of
Labor, labor and management, labor unions, Land Grant colleges, Las Gorras Blancas, Abraham
Lincoln, Little Big Horn, markets (Asia, Pacific, Latin America), massive migrations, mechanized
agriculture, Minstrel shows, J. P. Morgan, Mother Jones, National Parks, national unions, National
Woman Suffrage Association, New
Immigrants vs Native-born, new systems of
farming, New South, People’s Party (Populists), Plessy v Ferguson, political
machines, post-Civil War migrations, poverty, , Progressive Reformers, racial
gradations, racial stereotyping, railroad system, Referendum, reservations, John D. Rockefeller, self-help
groups, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Settlement
Houses, sharecropping, Sierra Club, Social
Darwinism, Social Gospel, Southern economy, technological innovations,
Telegraphs, trusts, tenant farming, transcontinental railroad, Tweed Ring,
unified industrial nation, urbanization, Urban Middle class, urban and rural
populations, US Fish Commission, U.S. military actions, utopianism, Booker T. Washington, Ida B.
Wells-Barnett, Women’s Clubs, Women’s Christian Temperance Union