AP US History vocabulary list: Difference between revisions

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== Terms to know ==
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* abolitionism
* aristocratic
* blue collar v. white collar
* cession
* chain migration
* class warfare
* ''de facto'' v. ''de jure''
* delegate (as noun and verb)
* direct tax
* disenfranchised
* dissent
* domestic
* duties
* emancipation
* embargo
* equity
* excise tax
* franchise
* imperialism
* indemnity
* intolerance
* laissez-faire
* mercantilism
* nativism
nullify / nullification
Old World v. New World
popular sovereignty
precedent
prohibition
"Republican motherhood"
states rights
segregation
socialism
suffrage
suffragette
tariff
temperance movement
unalienable


== Colonial Periods ==
== Colonial Periods ==


=== Pre-Columbian ===
=== Pre-Columbian ===
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* indigenous
=== Age of Exploration ===
* Caravel
* Conquistador


=== Colonial ===
=== Colonial ===
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* New England town meetings
* New England town meetings
* Pequot War
* Pequot War
* Puritans/intolerance
* Puritan
* Queen Anne's War
* Queen Anne's War
* Roanoke
* Roanoke
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* St. Augustine
* St. Augustine
* the Great Awakening
* the Great Awakening
* Triangle Trade
* William Penn
* William Penn
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* Declaration of Independence
* Declaration of Independence
* Enlightenment philosophers
* Enlightenment philosophers
* First Continental Congress  
* First Continental Congress
* French and Indian War
* French and Indian War
* John Locke
* John Locke
* Lexington/Concord
* Lexington/Concord
* Loyalist
* Montesquieu
* Montesquieu
* natural rights
* natural rights
* Navigation Acts
* Navigation Acts
* Patrior
* Proclamation of 1763
* Proclamation of 1763
* Saratoga
* Saratoga
* social contract theory
* social contract theory
* Thomas Paine
* Thomas Paine
* Treaty of Paris of 1783 - provisions
* Treaty of Paris of 1783
* Valley Forge
* Valley Forge
* Yorktown
* Yorktown
* Continental Congress/es
* Continental Congress/es
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* Freedman’s Bureau
* Freedman’s Bureau
* grandfather clause
* grandfather clause
* homestead
* Jim Crow laws
* Jim Crow laws
* land grant
* literacy tests
* literacy tests
* Morill Land-Grant Act (1862)
* Plessy v. Ferguson
* Plessy v. Ferguson
* poll taxes
* poll taxes
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=== Cold War diplomacy ===
=== Cold War diplomacy ===
* East, the
* hegemony / hegemonic power
* hegemony / hegemonic power
* United Nations
* nation-building
* Palestine partition
* Security Council
* Security Council
* Palestine partition
* Third World
* unaligned nations
* unaligned nations
* third world
* United Nations
* nation-building
* West, The


=== Eisenhower period ===  
=== Eisenhower period ===