AP US History vocabulary list: Difference between revisions

'''US History and AP US History Running Vocabulary List: Terms, Concepts, Names and Events'''

== General terms to know for US History ==

<div style="column-count:2">

<ul><li>{{#tip-text:chain migration|migration that follows existing personal, usually family, or other connections, such as a job skill or labor organization, thus a "chain" }}</ul></li>

<ul><li>{{#tip-text:class warfare|political posturing by emphasizing differences between social and economic classes; historically, a Democratic political strategy}}</ul></li>

<ul><li>{{#tip-text:delegate (as noun and verb)|n: a representative to a political body; v. to assign or pass along a task, power, or sovereignty}}</ul></li>

<ul><li>{{#tip-text:direct tax|a tax that is applied "directly" to persons as opposed to an activity or material; the income tax is a "direct" tax, which required Constitutional amendment to allow under the law}}</ul></li>

<ul><li>{{#tip-text:western expansion|we can look upon the American historical experience as one of ongoing westward, or western, expansion: 1st spreading westward from the Atlantic coastal plains, then over the Appalachians into the Ohio Valley, then into the Mississippi Valley and across the Mississippi River, then across the Great Plains, up to the Rocky Mountains, then expansion to Califoria, especially following the 1849 Gold Rush; then connecting the nation through netwards of railroads and telegraph; then overseas expansion (Spanish-American War) and intervention (WW's I and II) and spread of American political, cultural and economic activity and influence across the world into the modern world of instantaneous connectivity}}

</div>

== Colonial Periods ==