United States History Word Wall Bundle | First Americans to Present

This Complete American History Word Wall Bundle will be a meaningful addition to your classroom decor and help reinforce key vocabulary words that students will learn about throughout the year! It covers events ranging from the Mesoamerican Civilizations and First Americans to the 21st Century.

Save over 40% on these word wall sets when you purchase them together in this bundle!

To help you reinforce these words and teach them to your students, editable Google Slideshows have been included with all of the words and images! If you like, edit the definitions and present the words to your students or post on Google Classroom!

All of the included cards are available in both a color version and a (mostly) black and white version. These easy-to-read cards are ready to print and display in your classroom!

All cards include the word itself, the definition, and a historical image or photograph to help your visual learners better understand the word. You can print the cards out one per page or two per page. The cards that are printed one per page will be approximately 8 inches tall and 10 inches wide and the cards that are printed two per page will be approximately 5 inches tall and 8 inches wide (assuming you cut off the white border on the edge of the page).

This US History word wall bundle includes the following 27 topics:

• Mesoamerican Civilizations and Native Americans Word Wall
• European Exploration Word Wall
• 13 Colonies Word Wall
• American Revolution Word Wall
• Constitution Word Wall
• New Nation Word Wall (Washington and Adams)
• Jefferson, Madison, Monroe Word Wall
• The Age of Jackson and Westward Expansion Word Wall
• Industrial Revolution Word Wall
• Age of Reform Word Wall
• Sectionalism and a Nation Divided Word Wall
• The Civil War Word Wall
• Reconstruction Word Wall
• Tensions in the West Word Wall
• Industrialization Word Wall
• Immigration and Urbanization Word Wall
• Progressive Era Word Wall
• American Imperialism Word Wall
• World War I Word Wall
• Roaring Twenties Word Wall
• Great Depression Word Wall
• World War II Word Wall
• Cold War Word Wall
• Civil Rights Movement Word Wall
• Vietnam War Word Wall
• Late 20th Century Word Wall
• 21st Century Word Wall

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.

The words included in this resource are listed below:

Mesoamerican Civilizations and Native Americans Word Wall:

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 Word Wall:

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 Word Wall:

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 Word Wall:

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

Constitution Word Wall:

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 Word Wall (Washington and Adams):

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, Monroe Word Wall:

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

The Age of Jackson and Westward Expansion Word Wall:

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 Word Wall:

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 Word Wall:

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 a Nation Divided Word Wall:

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

The Civil War Word Wall:

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

Reconstruction Word Wall:

Reconstruction, Civil Rights, Amnesty, Ten Percent Plan, Radical Republicans, Wade-Davis Bill, Savannah Colloquy, Freedman’s Bureau, Juneteenth, Thirteenth Amendment, Black Codes, Sharecropping, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Fourteenth Amendment, Impeach, Andrew Johnson, Colored National Labor Union, Frances Harper, Fifteenth Amendment, Hiram Revels, Robert B. Elliott, Compromise of 1877, White Supremacy, Discrimination, Poll Tax, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause, Segregation, Jim Crow Laws, Plessy v. Ferguson

Tensions in the West Word Wall:

Comstock Lode, Boomtowns, Ghost Towns, Vigilantes, Transcontinental Railroad, Standard Time, Cattle Drive, Great Plains, Vaqueros, Buffalo Soldiers, Homestead Act, Exodusters, Sodbusters, Dry Farming, Reservations, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph, Geronimo, Sand Creek Massacre, Battle of Little Bighorn, Dawes Act, Wounded Knee Massacre, Grange, Populist Party, William Jennings Bryan

Industrialization Word Wall:

Industrialization, Entrepreneur, Profit, Laissez-faire, Capitalism, Andrew Carnegie, Vertical Integration, Bessemer Process, John D. Rockefeller, Horizontal Integration, Robber Baron, Corporation, Trust, Monopoly, Thomas Edison, Lewis Howard Latimer, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Assembly Line, Madam CJ Walker, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Elijah McCoy, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Labor Union, Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers, Collective Bargaining, Haymarket Affair, Pullman Strike, Homestead Strike, Sherman Antitrust Act

Immigration and Urbanization Word Wall:

Gilded Age, Immigration, Push Factor, Pull Factor, Steerage, Ellis Island, Emma Lazarus, Angel Island, Assimilation, Nativist, Chinese Exclusion Act, Immigration Act of 1917, Urbanization, Middle Class, Skyscrapers, Sweatshops, Child Labor, Mother Jones, Tenements, Slums, Jacob Riis, Barrios, Mutualistas, Settlement Houses, Hull House, and Jane Addams

Progressive Era Word Wall:

Progressive Era, Primary, Initiative, Referendum, Recall, Trustbuster, Theodore Roosevelt, Conservation, National Park, John Muir, Muckrakers, Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Pure Food and Drug Act, Lynching, Ida B. Wells, NAACP, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Prohibition, Frances Willard, Suffrage, Nineteenth Amendment, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul, Mary Church Terrell, Zitkala-Ša, Society of American Indians, Anti-Defamation League, Civil Service, Pendleton Act, Graduated Income Tax, Federal Reserve Act, Eugene V. Debs, and Election of 1912

American Imperialism Word Wall:

Foreign Policy, Isolationism, Imperialism, Annexation, William Seward, Annexation of Hawaii, Queen Liliuokalani, American Samoa, Sphere of Influence, Open Door Policy, Boxer Rebellion, Cuban War of Independence, Yellow Journalism, Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Riders, Protectorate, Platt Amendment, Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippine-American War, Emilio Aguinaldo, Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, Dollar Diplomacy, Moral Diplomacy, Mexican Revolution, Francisco “Pancho” Villa

World War 1 Word Wall:

Nationalism, Militarism, Alliance System, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, World War I, Allied Powers, Central Powers, Trench Warfare, Battle of Verdun, U-Boats, Woodrow Wilson, Propaganda, Lusitania, Zimmermann Telegram, Russian Revolution, Selective Service Act, Pacifists, Socialists, Espionage Act, Sedition Act, Mobilization, Liberty Bonds, Convoy System, American Expeditionary Force, Harlem Hellfighters, Battle of the Argonne Forest, Armistice, Fourteen Points, Self-Determination, League of Nations, Reparations, and Treaty of Versailles

Roaring Twenties Word Wall:

Roaring Twenties, Lost Generation, Ohio Gang, Teapot Dome Scandal, Calvin Coolidge, Flappers, Consumer Goods, Installment Buying, Stocks, Buying on Margin, Great Migration, Marcus Garvey, Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jazz, Bessie Smith, Charles Lindbergh, Prohibition, Bootleggers, Communism, Anarchist, Red Scare, Deportation, Quota System, Sacco and Vanzetti Trial, Tulsa Race Massacre, and Scopes Trial

Great Depression Word Wall:

Recession, Stock Market Crash of 1929, Default, Bankruptcy, Great Depression, Herbert Hoover, Hoovervilles, Bonus Army, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), Eleanor Roosevelt, Fireside Chats, Hundred Days, New Deal, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA), National Recovery Administration (NRA), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Works Progress Administration (WPA), Collective Bargaining, Pension, Social Security Act, Frances Perkins, Black Cabinet, Mary McLeod Bethune, Indian New Deal, Court Packing, Deficit Spending, Dust Bowl, and Migrant Workers.

World War 2 Word Wall:

Dictator, Fascism, Totalitarianism, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Appeasement, Munich Conference, Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, Blitzkrieg, World War II, Allied Powers, Axis Powers, Total War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lend-Lease Act, Atlantic Charter, Hirohito, Pearl Harbor, Rations, Rosie the Riveter, Tuskegee Airmen, Japanese American Internment, 442nd Nisei Regimental Combat Team, Bracero Program, Zoot Suit Riots, Battle of Midway, Island Hopping, Navajo Code Talkers, Dwight D. Eisenhower, D-Day, Concentration Camps, Holocaust, Manhattan Project, and Nuremberg Trials

Cold War Word Wall:

Superpower, Cold War, Communism, Capitalism, Iron Curtain, Containment, Harry S. Truman, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, Berlin Wall, United Nations (UN), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Warsaw Pact, McCarthyism, Proxy War, 38th Parallel, Mao Zedong, Korean War, Stalemate, Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Space Race, Sputnik, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Arms Race, Fidel Castro, John F. Kennedy (JFK), Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis, Peace Corps, GI Bill, Fair Deal, Federal Aid Highway Act, Inflation, Baby Boom, Standard of Living, Rock and Roll, Beatniks

Civil Rights Movement Word Wall:

Civil Rights Movement, Racism, Discrimination, Segregation, Integration, Jackie Robinson, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Thurgood Marshall, Brown v. Board of Education, Little Rock Nine, Rosa Parks, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Civil Disobedience, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Sit-In, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Freedom Rides, Birmingham Campaign, March on Washington, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Freedom Summer, Fannie Lou Hamer, Selma Campaign, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Black Power, Black Panther Party, Great Society, Medicare, Medicaid, Affirmative Action, César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, American Indian Movement, Betty Friedan, National Organization for Women, Equal Rights Amendment, Stonewall Riots

Vietnam War Word Wall:

Indochina, Viet Minh, Ho Chi Minh, Geneva Accords, Ngo Dinh Diem, Viet Cong (National Liberation Front), Guerilla Warfare, Vietnam War, Domino Theory, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Escalation, Ho Chi Minh Trail, Search-and-Destroy Missions, Napalm, Agent Orange, Hawks, Doves, Conscientious Objectors, Deferment, Counterculture, Tet Offensive, My Lai Massacre, Richard Nixon, Silent Majority, Vietnamization, Kent State Massacre, Jackson State Massacre, Pentagon Papers, Paris Peace Accords

Late 20th Century Word Wall:

Richard Nixon, Apollo 11, Stagflation, Détente, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Watergate Scandal, Human Rights, Camp David Accords, Iran Hostage Crisis, Soviet-Afghan War, Ronald Reagan, Conservatism, Deregulation, Supply-Side Economics (Reaganomics), Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), Deficit Spending, Sandra Day O’Connor, Mikhail Gorbachev, Glasnost, Iran-Contra Affair, War on Drugs, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Internet, World Wide Web (WWW), Digital Revolution, American with Disabilities Act (ADA), Saddam Hussein, Persian Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm, Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), Downsizing, Bill Clinton, Balanced Budget, Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act (1994 Crime Bill), Contract with America, and Sanctions

21st Century Word Wall:

Bush v. Gore, George W. Bush, Terrorism, September 11th Attacks, Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, War on Terror, Taliban, Northern Alliance, War in Afghanistan, Insurgency, Islamophobia, USA Patriot Act, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Iraq War, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, No Child Left Behind Act, Hurricane Katrina, Globalization, Mortgage, Bubble, Global Financial Crisis, Great Recession, Bailout, Barack Obama, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Debt Ceiling, Affordable Care Act, Hate Crime, Black Lives Matter, Obergefell v. Hodges, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Climate Change, Paris Agreement, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Cybersecurity, Pandemic