Early American History Vocabulary Activities for Google Drive | US History

These Early American History Vocabulary Activities for Google Drive can be used all year to help your students learn and practice their vocabulary words! There are 12 units included, and each set includes content-specific vocabulary lists with 7 different vocabulary activities that you can use throughout your unit, for a total of 84 activities!

Each resource includes the following:

• Teacher Guide (PDF with links, directions, and answer keys)
• Vocabulary + Definition List (PDF + Google Doc)
• Quizlet Vocabulary Set Link
• Vocabulary Chart (Google Slideshow based upon Frayer Model)
• Word Sort/Semantic Map (Interactive Google Slideshow)
• Matching Challenge (Self-grading Google Form)
• Fill in the Blank Activity(Self-grading Google Form)
• Related Word Challenge (Self-grading Google Form)
• Word Bingo (PDF)

This US History Vocabulary Activities bundle includes the following topics:

• Mesoamerican Civilizations and Native Americans Vocabulary Activities
• European Exploration Vocabulary Activities
• 13 Colonies Vocabulary Activities
• American Revolution Vocabulary Activities
• Constitution Vocabulary Activities
• New Nation Vocabulary Activities (Washington and Adams)
• Jefferson, Madison, Monroe Vocabulary Activities
• The Age of Jackson and Westward Expansion Vocabulary Activities
• Industrial Revolution Vocabulary Activities
• Age of Reform Vocabulary Activities
• Sectionalism and a Nation Divided Vocabulary Activities
• The Civil War Vocabulary Activities

Vocabulary Words Included in this Bundle:

First Americans Vocabulary Activities:

Migration, Bering Strait, Ice Age, Culture, The Olmec, Civilization, The Maya, City-State, The Aztec, Tenochtitlan, The Inca, Quipu, Hohokam, Anasazi, Adobe, Pueblo, Mound Builders, Cahokia, Tribe, Iroquois League, Maize, Buffalo

European Exploration Vocabulary Activities:

Leif Erikson, Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Taino, Columbian Exchange, Smallpox, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Conquistador, Hernán Cortés, Moctezuma, Colony, New Spain, Missionaries, Missions, Henry the Navigator, Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco Da Gama, Amerigo Vespucci, Treaty of Tordesillas, New France, New England, New Netherland

13 Colonies Vocabulary Activities:

Jamestown, John Smith, Pocahontas, Indentured Servant, Bacon's Rebellion, Toleration Act of 1649, Olaudah Equiano, Slave Codes, Puritans, Pilgrims, Immigrants, Mayflower Compact, Tisquantum, John Winthrop, Anne Hutchinson, Quakers, William Penn, Cash Crop, English Bill of Rights, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards, John Locke, Enlightenment, Pontiac, Persecution, Salutary Neglect, Slave Trade, Mercantilism, Navigation Acts, Charter, Representative Government, Northwest Passage, Benjamin Franklin

American Revolution Vocabulary Activities

French and Indian War, American Revolution, Samuel Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Paul Revere, Marquis de Lafayette, King George III, Baron Friedrich Von Steuben, First Continental Congress, Second Continental Congress, Continental Army, Patriots, Loyalists, Boston Massacre, Lexington and Concord, Battle of Trenton, Battle of Bunker Hill, Battle of Saratoga, Battle of Yorktown, Stamp Act, Tea Act, Intolerable Acts, Quartering Act, Treaty of Paris, Common Sense, Declaration of Independence, Boston Tea Party, Sons of Liberty, Valley Forge, Guerilla Warfare, Boycott, Minutemen, Blockade, Mercenary

US Constitution Vocabulary Activities:

Constitution, Preamble, Article, Legislative Branch, Bicameral, Senate, House of Representatives, Necessary and Proper Clause, Executive Branch, President, Veto, Electoral College, Impeach, Judicial Branch, Supreme Court, Judicial Review, Checks and Balances, Separation of Powers, Amendments, Bill of Rights, Federalism, Ratify, Articles of Confederation, Northwest Ordinance, Shay’s Rebellion, Constitutional Convention, Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan, Great Compromise, Three-Fifths Compromise, Federalists, Anti-Federalists

New Nation and Early Republic Vocabulary Activities:

Electoral College, Inauguration, George Washington, Precedent, Cabinet, Judiciary Act of 1789, National Debt, Bond, Speculators, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Loose Construction, Strict Construction, French Revolution, Neutrality Proclamation, Jay Treaty, Whiskey Rebellion, Political Parties, Federalist Party, Democratic-Republican Party, XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition Acts, John Adams, Washington's Farewell Address, Marbury v. Madison, Judicial Review, Tariff, Faction

Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe Vocabulary Activities:

Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Laissez Faire, Toussaint Louverture, War of 1812, Impressment, Tecumseh, James Monroe, Monroe Doctrine, Star Spangled Banner, Capitalism, American System, John Marshall, Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark Expedition, Sacagawea, Zebulon Pike, Embargo, War Hawks, Nationalism, McCulloch v. Maryland, Gibbons v. Ogden, Miguel Hidalgo, Simón Bolívar, Adams-Onís Treaty, Election of 1800

Age of Jackson and Westward Expansion Vocabulary Activities:

Andrew Jackson, Jacksonian Democracy, Suffrage, Whig Party, Democratic Party, Spoils System, Sequoyah, Trail of Tears, Secede, Nullification Crisis, Indian Removal Act, Panic of 1837, Manifest Destiny, Frontier, Territory, Alamo, Texas War for Independence, Vaqueros, John C. Fremont, Mountain Men, Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail, Jim Beckwourth, Mexican American War, James Polk, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Gadsden Purchase, California Gold Rush

Industrial Revolution Vocabulary Activities:

Industrial Revolution, Textiles, Samuel Slater, Technology, Eli Whitney, Cotton Gin, Interchangeable Parts, Mass Production, Rhode Island System, Lowell System, Trade Union, Strike, Sarah Bagley, Transportation Revolution, National Road, Robert Fulton, Clermont, Samuel Morse, Telegraph, Morse Code, John Deere, Cyrus McCormick, Isaac Singer, Manufacturing, Canal, Erie Canal

Age of Reform Vocabulary Activities:

Reform, Second Great Awakening, Temperance Movement, Dorothea Dix, Public School, Horace Mann, Prudence Crandall, Thomas Gallaudet, Samuel Gridley Howe, American Colonization Society, Abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, John Quincy Adams, Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Convention, Declaration of Sentiments, Suffrage, Susan B. Anthony, Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Individualism, Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, Hudson River School

Sectionalism and Divided Nation Vocabulary Activities:

Missouri Compromise, Popular Sovereignty, Wilmot Proviso, Sectionalism, Free-Soil Party, Secede, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Douglas, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Nat Turner, John Brown, Charles Sumner, Republican Party, Dred Scott, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Freeport Doctrine, Harpers Ferry, Constitutional Union Party, Election of 1860, Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis

Civil War Vocabulary Activities

Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Union, Confederacy, Fort Sumter, Border States, Anaconda Plan, Cotton Diplomacy, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Battle of Bull Run, George B. McClellan, Robert E. Lee, Battle of Antietam, Ironclad, Ulysses S. Grant, Battle of Shiloh, Siege of Vicksburg, Emancipation Proclamation, 54th Massachusetts Infantry, Habeas Corpus, Draft, Income Tax, Inflation, Clara Barton, Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address, William Tecumseh Sherman, Total War, Appomattox Court House

All of the resources in this bundle will go directly to your TpT Purchases folder of your Google Drive account after completing your purchase. If you have any technical issues, reach out to us at mrandmrssocialstudies@gmail.com or contact TPT.

Are you looking for printable word wall cards that correspond with all of the words included in these vocabulary activity sets? If so, check out our Early American History Word Wall here!