1 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Grade 1 Prior Belong Community Everyday Family Friend Globe Group Helpful Holiday Map Neighborhood Rules School Sharing Transportation Vote Explicit Basic need Bodies of water Compare Country Difference Direction East Event Fairness Family history Individual Key Legend Money Necessary Needs North Ocean Personal history Problem Responsibility Routine Shelters Similarities South State Symbols Timeline Wants West World Introductory Adjust/ adapt Allegiance Commemorated Compass rose Consequences Continent Continent Culture Decision Education Environment Family structure Future Goods Historical figure Living conditions Modify/ change Past Pledge Present Relationships Roles Saving Services Significance Spending Strategy Trading/ bartering United States United States Value 2 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Grade 2 Prior Continent Family Globe Groups Holidays Map Neighborhood Rules Savings Today Tomorrow World Yesterday Explicit Agriculture Benefits Characteristics Citizen Citizenship City/town Climate Community Compass rose Consequences Country Culture Earnings East Enforce Environment Good Lake Laws Legend Map key Mountains Natural hazard Needs North Oceans Past Patriotic Pledge Present Recreation River Roles Savings Services South States Symbols Symbols Wants West Introductory Allegiance Basic needs Bodies of water Boundary lines Business Canyons Clean air Consumers Contemporary Customs Dams Deserts Expenses Factories Finance Food History Income Indivisible Islands Justice Landforms Liberty Natural resources Neighboring Northeast Northwest Plains Producers Qualities Republic Reservoir Scale Shelter Southeast Southwest Space Spending Traditions Valleys Water 3 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Grade 3 Prior Benefits Boundaries Cities Citizen Citizenship City/town Community Compass rose Consequences Continent Country Culture Earnings Family Globe Goods Government History Landforms Laws Legend Map Map key Map symbols Map title Needs Neighborhood Past Present Rules Savings Services Symbols Time line Traditions Vote Wants Explicit Ancestor Authority Ballot Boise Capital Cardinal directions Community Community service Consumer Coordinates Countries County Cultures Descendant Election Enforce Expenses Geographic features Heritage Heritage traditions Idaho Immigrant Immigration Income Involuntary movement Justice Labor Law Letter grid Limited resources Local Government Location Migration Natural resources Number grid Past Patriotism Population Power Present Private property Producer Public property Introductory Appointed officials Demand Economy Elected officials Executive Goods Judicial Legislative Perspectives Services Supply Tribes Washington D.C. 4 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Public service Responsibilities Rights Rural Scale Settlement Settlement patterns Spending State Suburb Technology Trade United States Urban Voluntary immigration Waterways 5 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Grade 4 Prior Africans Animal skins Arrowhead Arrows Asians Basket Beliefs Benefits Bones Bows Building Business Canyon Cardinal directions Challenges Chief City Clothing Communication Community Compass rose Continents Contributions Coordinates Cultural heritage Culture Customs Desert Differences Diverse groups Diversity Education E-mail Equator Europeans Explorers Factory Food Forest Globe Gold Goods Government Explicit Agriculture Climate Continental divide Cultural groups Economy Elected/appointed Foraging Fur trappers Gathering Global economy Government/tribal officials Hemispheres Homestead Hunting Industry Irrigation Landforms Latitude Legislature Longitude Migrant Miners Mining Missionary Native American tribes Native Americans Petroglyph Pictograph Pioneers Reservations River valleys Settlers State government Symbol Territories Traders Treaty Tribal council Tribal government Tribal names Westward expansion Introductory Aboriginal Acres of land Atlatl Awl Boom town Camas Ceded Characteristics Constituents Cradle board Cradle rocker Current boundaries Current issues Current news media Demand Division of labor Economic base of Idaho Entrepreneur Equality of opportunity Executive branch Federal government Federally recognized Glacier Hardships Homestead Act Hunting grounds Hydraulic mining Impact Influence Judicial branch Legislative branch Lobbying Lode mining Longhouse Lumber Mano Media Metate Mining claim Missions Monitor Mortar Obsidian 6 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Hardships Hispanics Housing Immigrant Internet Jerky Judge Lakes Land Language Law Lawyer Leadership Letters Local government Lumber Map Map key Mountain Mountain ranges Mountains Music Natural resources Newspaper Number/letter grid Oceans Opportunities Organization Past Patterns Poles Police Present Private property Public property Radio Regions Relationships Religion Resources Responsibility Rights Rivers Role Roots Rules Ore Panning Pemmican Personal liberty Pestle Petitioning Plateau Popular consent Prime meridian Prospector Racial Religious Representation Respect for the individual Scarcity Sinew Sluice box Specialization Squatters State representatives Supply Sweat house Technological innovations Technology Tourism Travois Tribal government and leadership Volcanic features Wind and sun shelter 7 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Rural Services Settlements Silver Similarities Social Spear State government Stone Suburb Telephone Tipi Tools Tools/technology Town Tradition Transportation TV Urban Valleys Volcanoes Voting Weapons 8 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Grade 5 Prior Cause Effect Exploration Freedom Nation Public Religion Reservation Responsible Treaty Explicit Articles of Confederation Barter Bill of Rights Budget Citizen Colony Congress Constitution Contributions Databases Declaration of Independence Demand Democratic republic Document Economy Entrepreneurship Expansion Export Geography Government House of Representatives Immigrants Import Interdependence Liberty Maps/cartography Market Negotiate Regions Resources Senate Slavery Society Sovereignty Supply Taxes Technology Trade Transcontinental Introductory Acquisition Boycott Capitalism Change Checks and balance Civic Colonies Communication Conflict Congress Consent Constitutional democracy Coordinate Cultural Customs Databases Democracy Dictatorship Diplomacy Direct democracy Economic Economic growth Economic policies Enforce Equality Equator Establishment European Executive Executive Exports Federal Federal government Founding Free Market Globe Government Graphs Gross Groups • Historical map House of Representatives Humanitarian 9 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Immigration Imports Income Indentured servant Infer Influence Influential Inhabitants Interact Interdependence Involuntary Judicial Latitude Laws Legislative Longitude Manifest Destiny Monarchy Monopoly Motives Nation Net Networks Opportunity Parallel Physical map Political Political groups Political map Political parties Popular consent Preamble Prime Meridian Product Region Religious Representative Republic Reservation Resource map Respect Responsibilities Revolts Rights Senate Settler 10 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Significant Slave trade Social Socialism Sovereign power • Tariffs Territory Topographic map Transferable title Transitional Transportation Treaties Treaty Tribal government United Nations Voluntary Western Expansion Western Movement 11 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Geography- Western Hemisphere Prior Civilization Continents Equator Globe Hemispheres Islands Land form Map Ocean Explicit Agriculture Biome Cardinal directions Climate Colonization Command economy Communism Compass rose Cultural groups Culture Democracy Developed country Developing country Economy Ethnic group Ethnicity Ethnocentrism GDP Human environment interaction Indigenous Indigenous Latitude Legend Longitude Manufacturing Market economy Mesoamerica Nationalism Natural resources Nonrenewable resources Orbit Perspective Physical environment Physical maps Political maps Population Population density Population distribution Prime meridian Region Relative location Renewable resources Introductory Acculturation Acid rain Antarctic Circle Archipelago Arctic Circle Axis Aztec Bar graph Bay Cartogram Cartography Catholic Climagraph Collective farming Colony Commercial agriculture Commonwealth Conquistador Constitutional monarchy Consumer Country Cultural diffusion Cultural patterns Culture region Culture traits Deforestation Degrees Delta Demographer Desalination Desert Desertification Dictatorship Diffusion Domestication Ejidos Elevation profile Empire Epidemic Equality Equator Equinox Ethnic groups 12 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Revolution Scale Scarcity Technology Vegetation Weather Exploration Exports Federalism Flow chart Fossil fuel GDP Gender Genocide GNP Greenhouse effect Grid Gulf Gulf stream/ North Atlantic Drift Hacienda High latitude Highland Holocaust Humid continental Humid subtropical Humid tropical Ice cap Imports Inca Interdependence International Date Line Isthmus Language families Line graph Low latitude Map projections Marine West Coast Maya Mediterranean Meridian Mesa Mestizo Metis Metropolitan Middle latitude Minutes Mission Mixed economy Monsoon Mulattoes Multicultural 13 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Northwest Passage Oasis Olmec Origin Parallels Parliamentary democracy Peninsula Per capita Perspective Pictograph Pie chart Plantation Plateau Pollution Deforestation Poverty Prevailing winds Primogeniture Progenitor Protestant Protestant Reformation Race Rain shadow Recycling Reforestation Republic Roman Catholic Church Rural Sinkhole Slave Smallpox Smog Social institutions Socialism Soil depletion Solstice State Steppe Strait Subarctic Subculture Subsistence agriculture Supply and demand Symbol Table Terraces 14 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Thematic maps Timeline diagram Toltec Topographical map Trade Tropic of Cancer Tropic of Capricorn Tropical Savanna Tundra Urban Urbanization Water cycle Wealth Wetlands 15 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY U.S. History I Prior Arms Cash crop Cause and Effect Citizen Civil rights Colony Communication networks Compromise Conflict Consequences Contribution Cultural groups Culture Customs Democratic republic Dictatorship Document Economic growth Economy Entrepreneurship European settler/explorer Exchange Exploration Founding Gender Government Government policies Humanitarian Immigrants Independence Inhabitants Interaction Interdependence Laws Leader Lewis and Clark Liberty Louisiana purchase Manufacturing Middle Passage Miners Monarchy Monopoly Explicit Alliance American Revolution Annex Articles of Confederation Assimilation Bacon’s Rebellion Bill of Rights Boycott Civil War Colonial Assemblies Commerce Consent Constitution of the United States Declaration of Independence Democracy Executive French and Indian War Frontier Immigration Indentured servant Indentured Servitude Judicial Legislative Manifest Destiny Mayflower Compact Mercantilism Middle class Monroe Doctrine National Interest Political Motive Political parties Reconstruction Regional Economies Regional motives Religious Motive Republic Reservation Slavery Tariff Territory Territory Treaty Introductory 10th Amendment Abolition Abuse of Resources Alexander Hamilton Alien and Sedition Acts Amendments American system Anne Hutchinson Anthropology Appalachian Mts. Archeology Articles of Confederation Baron Von Stueben Battle Bill of Rights Capitalism Checks and Balances Cherokee Tribe Chief Metacom Civic Clay's American System Columbian Exchange Columbus Common Good Compromise of 1850 Concurrent powers Congress Conquest Conquistador Constitutional democracy Cortez Cotton Gin Dawes Act Diplomacy Direct democracy Discrimination Dred Scott Elizabeth Cady Stanton Embargo Acts Equality Equality Erie Canal Ethnicity 16 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Motive Nation Native peoples Negotiate Opportunity Perspective Pilgrim Pioneer Plantation Political Political groups Prairie Protection Race Raw materials Reconstruction Region Religion Representation Representatives Resources Respect Responsibility Revolution Rural Sovereignty Supply and demand Taxation Technology Transcontinental Trappers Triangular trade Urban West Westward Expansion European settlements Factory System Federal government Federalism Federalists/Anti-Federalists Foreign interest Foreign policy Francis Marion, Samuel Adams Frederick Douglass Free Silver Freedom of Religion George Washington, Benjamin Franklin Ghost Dance Great Lakes Great Plains Harriet Tubman Henry Knox Homesteader Horatio Gates House of Representatives Immigration Imperialism Impressment Indentured Indian Removal Act of 1830 Indian Removal Act of 1830 Individual Interests Industrial Revolution Interchangeable parts Involuntary servitude Isolationism James Madison James Otis Jamestown John Marshall John Adams John Hancock Judicial Activism Kansas-Nebraska Act King Cotton King Phillips War Laissez-faire Land Ordinance of 1785 Liberty 17 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Limited Government Lowell factory system Lucretia Mott Majority Majority Rule Marquis de Lafayette Mass. Bay Colony Massachusetts Bay Colony Massacre Methods of Transpotation Minority Protections Mississippi River Missouri Compromise Missouri River Nathaniel Greene National Road Natural rights Navigation Acts Northwest Ordinance Northwest Ordinance Ohio Valley Patrick Henry Paul Revere Pilgrim Plessy v Ferguson Plymouth Colony Popular Sovereignty Populist Preamble Protective Tariffs Puritan Puritans Racism Railroads Railroads Raw Material Industries Rocky Mts. Roger Sherman Rule of Law Salutary neglect Sectionalism Segregation Senate Separation of Powers Separatist Servant 18 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Shared powers Shay’s Rebellion States’ rights Steam power Steam ships Suffrage Susan B. Anthony Telegraph lines Territorial expansionism Thomas Jefferson Three Branches of Government Trade Agreements Trail of Tears Transcontinental railroad Transportation Treaty of Fort Laramie Treaty Proclamation Line of 1769 Urbanization War of 1812 Washington’s Farewell Address Westward Migration Westward Trail William Jennings Bryan William Penn Worcester v. Georgia XYZ Affair 19 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY U.S. History II Prior 3-D Alliance Amendments Automobile Bar graph Bill of Rights Checks and Balances Compass rose Congress Constitution Culture Democracy Economics Executive Federalism Financial Genetic engineering Government Government House of Representatives Immigration Information super-highway Institutions Irrigation systems Judicial Key Legend Legislative Line graph Lines of latitude and longitude Magnetic resonance imaging Manifest Destiny Migrant farm workers Minority Monroe Doctrine Pie graph Race Racism Radio Railroad Reconstruction Republic Scale Explicit Activism Assimilation Cold War Communism Conservation Consumerism Containment Counterculture Diplomacy Discrimination Ethnicity Feminism Human Rights Industrialization Isolationism Militarism Monopoly Nationalism Nativism Progressive Prohibition Propaganda Segregation Selective Service Act Self determination Social welfare Socialism Suffrage Tariff Totalitarianism Unions Introductory 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments 1965 Voting Rights Act 19th Amendment Activism Advertising Affirmative action Agent Orange Alien Annexation Annihilation Appeasement Armistice Atlantic Charter Atomic bomb Automobile industry Autonomy Baby boom Balance of powers Berlin Airlift Big Stick Policy Blue collar Boycott Brinkmanship Capitalism Central powers Civil Rights Act of 1964 Coalition Conglomerate Conservatism Conservative Containment Containment of 38th Parallel Corporation Credit Cuban Missile Crisis Dawes Act Depression Desegregation Détente Diplomacy Domino Theory Economy of scale Eisenhower Doctrine 20 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Senate Supply and demand Technology Telecommute Vertical and horizontal axis Water rights Electoral college Fascism Fascism FCC FDIC Federal Reserve Foreign trade Franchise Franchisement GATT GDP Geneva Accords Genocide Ghetto Global economy Gringo Hiroshima Ho Chi Minh Trail Ideology Imperialism INF Treaty Installment plan Internationalism Internment of JapaneseAmericans Intervention vs. nonIntervention Iran-Contra Scandal Isolationism League of Nations Lend-Lease Act Liberal Liberalism Manhattan Project Marshall Plan Mass media Melting pot Militarism Most favored nation Nagasaki Napalm Nationalism NATO NATO Nazi Concentration Camps Nazism 21 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Nazism Nonviolent civil disobedience North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA) Nuremberg Trials Operation Desert Storm Peaceful protest Pearl Harbor Planned obsolescence Platform Potsdam Conference Protectorate Quota system Recession Resources Roosevelt Corollary SALT I SALT II Sit-ins Space Race Submarine warfare Suburb Super power Tariff The Allies The Allies and The Axis Powers Theatre of war Tonkin Gulf Resolution Totalitarian Trade embargo Treaty of Versailles Truman Doctrine Two-party system United Nations Urban fight Urban renewal Urbanization V-E Day Vertical/ horizontal Consolidation Vietcong Vietminh V-J Day War of Attrition White collar 22 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Wilson's Fourteen Points Yalta Conference Zimmerman Note CAUSES stock market • stock broker • share-holder • buying on margin • speculation • credit • price supports • Dust Bowl • drought EFFECTS direct relief • shanty town • soup kitchen • bread lines • conservation • New Deal Programs • bank holiday • government regulation • Social Security • Securities and Exchange Commission • The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) • The National Labor Relations Board • deficit spending • dry farming * business cycle 23 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY World History & Civilization Prior Explicit Agriculture Artifacts Barter Bartering Civilization Conflicts Conservation Culture Dictator Domesticate Dynasties Economy Ethnicity Evidence Excavation Geography Immigration Industrial Migration Monarchy Mythology Philosophy Pollution Population Primary source Religion Republic Resources Scarcity Secondary source Social class Society Technology Transportation Introductory 20th Century Abandonment Absolute location Adapt Adoptive family Agrarian Aircraft Alliance/treaty Alternative Anthropologists Aqueduct Archaeologists Atheism Authoritarian Calendar Canal Caravan Carbon dating Change Chemical warfare City-state Clan Class Climate Climatic changes Compass Compass rose Conflict Country and continent names Craftsmen Crusades Cultural borrowing Dams Delta Democracy Despotic regimes Dikes Division of labor Domestication Dumb bartering Economic growth Economic organizations Economic status 24 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Economic system Economic thinker Economy Emigration Endangered Environment Environmental change Equator Evidence Evolution Exchange Export Extended family Extinction Family crest Fertile plains Folklore Folktale Foraging Generations Geography terms Global consequences Global expansion Gods Government role Grid Growth rate Healthy Historically Holocaust Horse Horticulture Hunter-gatherer Ice Age Immigration Impact Import Influential Innovation International Interrelated Irrigation Latitude Legends Liberty Longitude 25 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Man-made features Matriarch Medieval Modify Money economy Monotheism Mountain ranges Myths Nation-state Natural disaster Natural disasters Navigational tools/methods Needs Nomad Nonrenewable Nuclear family Oasis Ocean and sea names Opportunity surplus Oral traditions Over exploitation of resources Over preservation of resource Patriarch Physical features Political philosophers Polytheism Population Population movement Preservation Prime meridian Productive Productivity rate Profit Rain forest Reconstruct Reform movements Relative location Relative value Rely Renewable Reservoir Resources Revolution Role Scholars Settlement 26 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Shaman/ medicine person Significant Silk Road Single parent family Social status Social stratification Socioeconomic Specialization of labor Standard of living Stratigraphy Structure Subsist Surplus System Tall tales Territory Terrorism Time line Time zones Travel corridors Tundra Various Various remains Viewpoints Wants War Weapons Wheel Workers 27 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Economics Prior Advertising Budget Business Choices Competition Freedom of choice Great Depression Inflation Labor union Market Private property Profit Resources Shortage Specialization Explicit “The Invisible Hand” Ability to pay and benefits received Allocation Anti-trust legislation Appreciation APR Assets Balance of trade Barriers to trade Bonds Budget deficit Business plan Capital Certificate of deposit Collective bargaining Command Competition Compound interest Consumer decision making Consumer protection Consumer Protection Agencies Contraction Co-payment Corporations CPI Credit Credit report Debt Deductible Depreciation Depression Discretionary income Disposable income Efficiency Embargo Entrepreneurship Expansion Expenses Export Factors of production Federal Introductory Banks Circular flow model Circular flow of money Classical Economics Comparative advantage Credit unions FDIC Federal Reserve structure Keynesian Economics Production possibilities curve Stock market Supply Side Economics 28 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Federal Reserve Franchise Free enterprise Freedom of enterprise GATT GDP Gross income Import Income Income tax Interdependence Interest Interest Rates Investment IRAs Labor laws Laissez faire Liabilities Market system Medicaid Medicare Mixed system Monopolies Monopolistic competition Monopoly Mutual funds NAFTA National debt Net income Net worth Oligopoly Opportunity cost Outsourcing Partnership Per capita GDP Perfect competition Profit incentive Profit incentive Promote general welfare Recession Record keeping Risk Savings account Scarcity Sherman Anti-trust Law Simple interest 29 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Social Security tax Sole proprietorship Stakeholders Standard of living Standard of living State Stock market Stocks Supply and demand Tariff Trade deficit Trade offs Trade Surplus Traditional system Unemployment Wants vs. needs Work force WTO 30 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY American Government Prior Albany Plan Anti-Federalists Articles Bicameral Bill of Rights Boycott Charter Colony Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise Confederation Connecticut Compromise Constitutional Convention Delegate Federalists Framers New Jersey Plan Preamble Proprietary Colony Royal Colony Three-Fifths Compromise Unicameral US Constitution • Ratification Virginia Plan Explicit Checks and Balances District Electoral College Executive Federalism Gerrymandering Impeachment Judicial Judicial Review Legislative Limited Government Majority Rule with Minority Rights Nomination Ordered government Popular Sovereignty Popular Vote Proportional Representation Reapportionment Representative government Separation of Powers Social contract Veto Introductory Absentee Voting Act of Admission Affirmative Action Appellate Jurisdiction Assimilation Australian Ballot Ballot Blanket Primary Block Grant Bonding Agent Bureaucracy Cabinet Capitalism Categorical Grant Caucus Certificate Certiorari Checks and Balance system Chief Justice Citizenship Civil Liberties Civil Rights Closed Primary Coattail Effect Collective Security Common law Communism Concurrent Powers Confederate Constitutional law Containment Convention De Facto Segregation De Jure Segregation Delegated Powers Democracy Détente Deterrents Dictatorship Discrimination Disenfranchise Divine Right Theory Division of Powers 31 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Dual citizenship Due Process Clause Economy Elastic Clause Electoral College Electoral Process Enabling Act Environmental Protection Agency Evolutionary Theory Exclusive Power Executive Branch Executive Departments Expressed Powers Extradition Favored Nation Status Federal Federalism Force Theory Free Market Full Faith and Credit Clause Function Global warming Globalization Grand in Aide Grant-In-Aid Program Hard Money Implied Powers Inherent Powers International Court of Justice v. International Olympic Committee International Red Cross Internationalism Interstate Commerce Clause Interstate Compact Involuntary Servitude Isolationism Jim Crow Law Judicial Branch Jurisdiction Jus Sanguineous Jus Soli Laissez-Faire Land leasing Laws of Supply and Demand 32 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Legislative Branch Lobbyists Local Native American groups Major party Majority Leader Majority opinion (Concurring) McCain-Feingold Act McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) Minor party Minority Leader Minority Opinion (Dissenting) Mixed Economy Monroe Doctrine NAFTA Nationalism NATO Natural rights Naturalization Nominations Non-traditional combatants Nonvoting voters Nullification Open Primary Original Jurisdiction PACs Parliamentary Partisanship Petition Political Action Committee Political party Political process Polling Place Precedence Precinct President President pro tempore Presidential Primary Election Privileges and Immunities Clause Procedural Due Process Project Grant Quota Referendum Registration 33 SOCIAL STUDIES VOCABULARY Reservation Reserved Powers Revenue Sharing Reverse Discrimination Rule of Law Separate But Equal Doctrine Integration Social Contract Theory Socialism Soft Money Sovereignty Speaker of the House Special Interest Groups States’ Rights Subsidy Substantive Due Process Suffrage Supremacy Clause Terrorism Think Tank Treaty Truman Doctrine UN Security Council Unitary United Nations Vice President Voting Watchdog Whip Writ of Habeas Corpus