Project Standards & Vocabulary

Unit 1: The Colonial Era1607-1763

SSUSH1 The student will describe European settlement in North America during the 17th

century.SSUSH2 The student will trace the ways that

the economy and society of British North America developed.

SSUSH 1 – Power Vocabulary1. Colony2. Virginia Company3. Jamestown4. Tobacco cultivation5. Powhatan6. Indentured servitude7. House of Burgesses8. Bacon’s Rebellion9. Slavery10.Massachusetts

Charter & settlement

11.Rhode Island settlement

12.Half-Way Covenant13.King Phillip’s War14.Salem Witch Trials15.Mid-Atlantic

Colonies16.Pennsylvania17.New Amsterdam

(New York)18.Quebec

SSUSH 2 – Power Vocabulary1. Mercantilism2. Transatlantic Trade3. Middle Passage4. African American

culture5. Benjamin Franklin6. Individualism7. Social Mobility8. The Great

Awakening

9. Northern Colonies10.Middle Colonies11.Southern Colonies

Unit 2: Revolution to Constitution

1763-1789

SSUSH 3 – The student will explain the primary causes of the American Revolution.

SSUSH 4 – The student will identify the ideological, military, and diplomatic aspects of

the American Revolution.SSUSH 5 – The student will explain specific

events and key ideas that brought about the adoption and implementation of the United

States Constitution.

SSUSH 3 – Power Vocabulary1. French and Indian

War2. Treaty of Paris of

17633. Proclamation of

17634. Stamp Act5. Intolerable Acts6. Sons of Liberty7. Daughters of Liberty

8. Committees of Correspondence

9. Lexington & Concord10.Second Continental

Congress11.Olive Branch Petition12.Thomas Paine13.Common Sense

SSUSH 4 – Power Vocabulary

1. Declaration of Independence

2. John Locke3. Thomas Jefferson4. George

Washington5. Crossing the

Delaware River6. Saratoga7. Valley Forge

8. Benjamin Franklin9. Marquis de Lafayette10.General Charles

Cornwallis11.Battle of Yorktown12.Treaty of Paris of

1783

SSUSH 5 – Power Vocabulary1. Articles of Confederation2. Daniel Shays’ Rebellion3. Great Compromise4. Slavery 5. 3/5 Compromise6. Separation of Powers7. Limited Government8. Charles de Montesquieu9. Executive Branch10. Legislative Branch

11. Judicial Branch12. Checks and Balances13. US Constitution14. Federalists15. Anti-Federalists16. The Federalist Papers17. James Madison18. Alexander Hamilton19. States’ Rights20. Bill of Rights

Unit 3: Creating a Nation 1789-1850

SSUSH 6 –Analyze the nature of territorial and population growth, and its impact in the early decades of the new nation.SSUSH 7 – Explain the process of economic growth, its regional and national impact in the first half of the 19th century, and the different responses to it.

USH 6 – Power Vocabulary

1. Northwest Ordinance2. Louisiana Purchase3. Lewis and Clark

expedition4. War of 18125. Eerie Canal6. New York City7. National

infrastructure

8. Monroe Doctrine

USH 7 – Power Vocabulary

1. Industrial Revolution

2. Eli Whitney3. Cotton Gin4. Interchangeable

Parts5. Manifest Destiny6. Temperance

Movement7. Abolitionism

8. Public School Reform9. Women’s Suffrage10.Elizabeth Cady

Stanton11.Seneca Falls

Conference12.Jacksonian

Democracy13.American Nationalism