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


page started May 2022, under construction**
== Pre-Columbian ==
 
== Colonial Period ==
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* Bacon’s Rebellion
* headright system
* House of Burgesses
* indentured servitude
* Jamestown- general characteristics
* John Rolfe
* John Smith
* Jonathan Edwards
* King Philip’s War
* Massachusetts Bay – general characteristics
* Mercantilism
* Native American-European interactions, including disease, treatment of
* Navigation Acts
* New England town meetings
* Pequot War
* Puritans/intolerance
* Queen Anne's War
* Roanoke
* salutary neglect
* St. Augustine
* the Great Awakening
* William Penn
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== American Revolution ==
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* Boston Massacre
* Boston Tea Party
* Common Sense
* Declaration of Independence
* Enlightenment philosophers
* First Continental Congress  
* French and Indian War
* John Locke
* Lexington/Concord
* Montesquieu
* natural rights
* Navigation Acts
* Proclamation of 1763
* Saratoga
* social contract theory
* Thomas Paine
* Treaty of Paris of 1783 - provisions
* Valley Forge
* Yorktown
* Continental Congress/es
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== Articles of Confederation Period ==
* Articles of Confederation
* Shay’s Rebellion
* confederation
* sovereignty
* supermajority
* unicameral
 
== U.S. Constitution
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* 3/5ths Compromise
* amendment process
* anti-Federalists
* bicameral
* Bill of Rights/10th Amendment
* checks and balances
* Connecticut Compromise
* Constitution
* elastic clause
* electoral college
* Federalists
* Federalism
* Federalist no. 10
* Federalist no. 51
* Federalist Papers
* Federalists
* George Washington
* Great Compromise
* impeachment
* James Madison
* New Jersey Plan
* Northwest Ordinance
* preamble
* preamble to the Constitution
* ratification
* separation of powers
* strict vs. loose interpretation
* unwritten Constitution
* Virginia Plan
 
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== Early Republic ==
 
         


== FDR & New Deal vocabulary  ==
== FDR & New Deal vocabulary  ==