Social Studies: American History
Academic Vocabulary
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Social Studies: American History
affirmed
analyze
cause, effect
cite
cite and explain
cite specific examples
compare
compare and contrast
confrontation
deliberation
describe
describe how
develop
essay
evaluate
evolved
examine
explain
explain how
explain why
explicit
hypothesize
identify
incorporated
list
opponent
persuasion
proponent
provision
rationale
reference
sequence
summarize
synthesize
tactic
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Social Studies: American History
Content Vocabulary
Topic: Historical Thinking and Skills 1
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Social Studies: American History
· primary resources
· secondary resources
· historical events
· theses
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Social Studies: American History
Topic: Historical Thinking and Skills 2
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Social Studies: American History
· primary resources
· secondary resources
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Social Studies: American History
Topic: Historical Thinking and Skills 3
· refute positions
Topic: Historical Thinking and Skills 4
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Social Studies: American History
· historical events
· correlation
· multiple causation
· long- and short-term
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Social Studies: American History
Topic: Historic Documents 5
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Social Studies: American History
· natural rights
· social contract
· grievance
· tyranny
· rights
· declaration
· independence
· colony
· colonist
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Topic: Historic Documents 6
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· cede
· treaty
· ordinance
· territory
· precedent
· precursor
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Social Studies: American History
Topic: Historic Documents 7
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· federalism
· provision
· checks and balances
· separation of powers
· legislation
· executive
· judicial
· preamble
· Constitution
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Social Studies: American History
Topic: Historic Documents 8
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· faction
· ratification
· convention
· federalist
· anti-federalist
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Social Studies: American History
Topic: Historic Documents 9
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· Bill of Rights
· habeas corpus
· trial by jury
· quartering
· Magna Carta
· English Bill of Rights
· Virginia Declaration of Rights
· amendment
· limited government
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Social Studies: American History
Topic: Industrialization and Progressivism (1877-1920) 10
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· industrialization
· agrarian
· American economy
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Social Studies: American History
Topic: Industrialization and Progressivism (1877-1920) 11
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· nativism
· labor union
· organized labor
· laissez-faire
· strike
· sit-in
· arbitration
· anarchy
· socialist
· radical
· communist
· industrialization
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Topic: Industrialization and Progressivism (1877-1920) 12
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· assimilation
· immigration
· emigration
· migration
· ethnic cities
· Angel Island
· Ellis Island
· nativism
· Gentlemen’s Agreement
· Chinese Exclusion Act
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Topic: Industrialization and Progressivism (1877-1920) 13
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· Jim Crow laws
· Plessy v. Ferguson
· segregation
· poll taxes
· literacy tests
· grandfather clause
· Freedmen’s Bureau
· Ku Klux Klan
· Discrimination
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Topic: Industrialization and Progressivism (1877-1920) 14
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· labor unions
· political machines
· settlement houses
· injunction
· muckrakers
· imitative
· referendum
· recall
· Robert LaFollette
· 16th Amendment
· 17th Amendment
· 18th Amendment
· 19th Amendment
· Eugene Debs
· Tammany Hall
· Lochner v. New York
· Muller v. Oregon
· monopoly
· pools
· trusts
· Populists
· Social Gospel movement
· American Railway Union
· Knights of Labor
· Industrial Workers of the World
· scabs
· American Federation of Labor
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Social Studies: American History
Topic: Foreign Affairs from Imperialism to Post-World War I (1898-1930) 15
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· imperialism
· Social Darwinism
· colony
· protectorate
· white man’s burden
· Roosevelt Corollary
· Monroe Doctrine
· Platt Amendment
· Open Door policy
· sphere of influence
· Foraker Act
· Alfred T. Mahan
· Frontier Thesis
· dollar diplomacy
· Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
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Topic: Foreign Affairs from Imperialism to Post-World War I (1898-1930) 16
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· neutrality
· reparations
· Nye committee
· merchants of death
· Dawes Plan
· Washington Naval Conference
· Kellogg-Briand Pact
· League of Nations
· Fourteen Points
· self-determination
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Social Studies: American History
Topic: Prosperity, Depression, and the New Deal (1919-1941) 17
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· Great Migration
· Ku Klux Klan
· Palmer raids
· Emergency Quota Act
· nativism
· National Origins Act
· Industrial Workers of the World
· Marxism
· capitalism
· anarchy
· Sacco and Vanzetti
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Topic: Prosperity, Depression, and the New Deal (1919-1941) 18
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Social Studies: American History
· flappers
· Scopes trial
· mass production
· assembly line
· consumerism
· Henry Ford
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Topic: Prosperity, Depression, and the New Deal (1919-1941) 19
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· Jazz Age
· Harlem Renaissance
· speakeasies
· organized crime
· bootlegging
· Great Migration
· lynching
· 18th Amendment
· 19th Amendment
· 21st Amendment
· Scopes trial
· Fundamentalism
· Modernism
· Traditionalism
· Marcus Garvey
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Topic: Prosperity, Depression, and the New Deal (1919-1941) 20
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· New Deal
· relief, recovery, reform
· speculation
· stock market
· Federal Reserve System
· deposit insurance
· debt/credit
· buying on margin
· investor
· monetary policy
· government assistance
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Social Studies: American History
Topic: From Isolation to World War (1930-1945) 21
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· Monroe Doctrine
· Roosevelt Corollary
· totalitarianism
· intervention
· neutrality
· isolationism
· cash and carry
· Lend-Lease
· expansionism
· devolution
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Topic: From Isolation to World War (1930-1945) 22
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· mobilization
· Selective Service/draft
· ration/rationing
· wage and price controls
· war bonds
· internment camp
· reallocation
· regulations
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Social Studies: American History
Topic: The Cold War (1945-1991) 23
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· atomic/nuclear bomb
· superpower
· deterrent
· arms race
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Social Studies: American History
Topic: The Cold War (1945-1991) 24
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Social Studies: American History
· containment
· Soviet-style communism
· Chinese Communist Revolution
· Marshall Plan
· Truman Doctrine
· NATO
· Warsaw Pact
· collective security
· limited war
· policy
· hegemony
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Social Studies: American History
Topic: The Cold War (1945-1991) 25
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· Red Scare
· House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
· McCarthy Hearings
· McCarthyism
· Congressional immunity
· subversion/infiltration
· The Rosenbergs
· loyalty checks
· blacklist
· Hollywood Ten
· civil liberties
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Topic: The Cold War (1945-1991) 26
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· Cold War
· United Nations (U.N.)
· space race
· SEATO
· Great Society
· domino theory
· Vietnamization
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Topic: The Cold War (1945-1991) 27
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· containment
· collective security
· communism
· deterrence
· national security
· suburbanization
· conservatism
· limited war
· Cold War
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Social Studies: American History
Topic: Social Transformations in the United States (1945-1994) 28
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· integration
· segregation
· civil resistance (disobedience)
· civil rights
· affirmative action
· separatism
· equality
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Topic: Social Transformations in the United States (1945-1994) 29
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Social Studies: American History
· region
· Sunbelt
· demand
· urban
· suburban
· high-tech industry
· baby boom
· consumerism
· mobility
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Topic: Social Transformations in the United States (1945-1994) 30
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· migration
· demographic
· reapportionment
· Rust Belt
· internal migration
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Topic: Social Transformations in the United States (1945-1994) 31
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Social Studies: American History
· political activism
· inequity
· social welfare
· environmentalism
· poverty
· national health insurance
· national security
· Earth Day
· EPA
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Topic: United States and the Post-Cold War World (1991-Present) 32
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· globalization
· transnational business organization
· trade deficit
· balance of trade
· trade surplus
· outsourcing
· service industry
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Topic: United States and the Post-Cold War World (1991-Present) 33
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Social Studies: American History
· terrorism
· war on terror
· Taliban
· U.S. Patriot Act
· preemptive war
· Bush Doctrine
· peace dividend
· proliferation
· trade surplus
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