American History 7 Vocabulary
American History 7 Vocabulary
 

Chapter 1

Archaeology

Nomads

Migration

Culture

Civilization

Inca

Maya

Aztec

Iroquois League (Confederacy)

Pueblos


Chapter 2

Vasco de Gama

Christopher Columbus

Treaty of Tordesillas

Circumnavigate

Conquistadors

Encomienda

Mercantilism

Columbian Exchange

Northwest Passage

New Netherlands


Chapter 3

Charters

Virginia Company

House of Burgesses

Mayflower Compact

Pilgrims

Patroons

Indentured Servants

Bacon's Rebellion

Act of Toleration

Quakers


Chapter 4

Subsistence farming

Triangular Trade

Cash crops

Navigation Acts

Great Awakening

Zenger Trial

Albany Plan of Union

Alliances

Treaty of Paris of 1763

Proclamation of 1763


Chapter 5

Sugar Act

Taxation without Representation

Boston Massacre

Propaganda

Boston Tea Party

Coercive Acts

Continental Congress

Olive Branch Petition

Common Sense

Declaration of Independence


Chapter 6

Loyalists

Hessians

Winter at Valley Forge

Inflation

Privateers

Guerrilla warfare

Yorktown

Influence of the American Revolution

Why the Americans Won

Battle of Saratoga


Chapter 7

Bicameral

Shay's Rebellion

3/5th Compromise

Great Compromise

Federalism

Legislative Branch

Executive Branch

Judicial Branch

Checks and balances

Separation of powers


Chapter 8

Cabinet

Precedents

Bill of Rights

Unconstitutional

Whiskey Rebellion

Impressment

Federalists

Democratic-Republicans

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

States' Rights


Chapter 9

Lewis and Clark

Sacagawea

Secede

Neutral Rights

Embargo Act

Louisiana Purchase

Battle of Tippecanoe

Treaty of Ghent

War of 1812

Hartford Convention


Chapter 10

Industrial Revolution

Capitalism

Factory System

Interchangeable Parts

Canal

Sectionalism

Missouri Compromise

McCulloch v. Maryland

Gibbons v. Ogden

Monroe Doctrine


Chapter 11

Suffrage

Spoils System

Tariff Debate

Nullify

Trail of Tears

Indian Removal Act

Laissez-faire

Panic of 1837

Whigs

Worcester v. Georgia


Chapter 12

Oregon Trail

Manifest Destiny

"Fifty-Four Forty or Fight"

Alamo

Sante Fe Trail

Mexican American War

Vigilantes

Mormons

Adams-Onís Treaty

Mountain Men


Chapter 13

Morse Code

Prejudice

Discrimination

Nativists

Know-Nothing Party

Cotton Gin

Capital

Slave Codes

Underground Railroad

Great Potato Famine


Chapter 14

Second Great Awakening

Revivals

Transcendentalists

Abolitionists

Grimké Sisters

Frederick Douglass

Sojourner Truth

Seneca Falls Declaration

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Susan B. Anthony