8th Grade U.S. History Vocab.

By:JaNae Matthews

Artifact
Definition: A person or thing that describes the
past or a person.

PLC
Definition: A place where you are feeling like you
are welcomed.

Distractor
Definition: Can be a person or thing that stops
others from learning.

Norms
Definition:Something that is standard.

Community
Define: A group of people that live in a specific
area.

Enviroment
Define:Your Surroundings.

Archeologist
Define:The study of a human or material remains.

Primary Source
Define:A physical object that was created during
the time under study.

Secondary Source
Define:Analyzes primary source.

Territories
Define:A piece of land owned by a person.

Historian
Define:A person who studies the history.

Climate
Define:The weather or degrees in a specific place.

Bias
Define:A outlook to define a persons perspective.

Hypotheses
Define: A persons guess.

Grievance
Define: Being treated unfairly.

Declaration of Independence
Define:The fundamental document establishing the
United States as a nation.

ordinances
Define: A decree

Daniel Shays
Define:American soldier, revolutionary, and
farmer famous for being one of the leaders of
Shays' Rebellion.

Article of Confederation
Define:An agreement among the thirteen original
states

Shays Rebellion
Define:Armed uprising that took place in
Massachusetts

State Power
Define:Each state is independent, has rights,
power, freedom and privileges

Federal Power
Define:political concept in which a group of
members are bound together by covenant with a
governing representative head

Constitutional Convention
Define:a gathering for the purpose of writing a
new constitution or revising an existing
constitution

Mayflower compact
Define:first governing document of plymouth

iroquois Confederacy
Define: ana alliance of five different tribes.

Northwest ordinances
Define: a law passed in 1787

founding fathers
Define: an important figure

declaration of independence
Define: the document made in the united states.

common good
Define: the benefit of all

Philadelphia
Define: Largest city in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania

Farmers
Define:a person who owns or manages a farm

Balance of Power
Define: Systems in which nations have equal
powers.

Legislative Branch
Define: Part of the United States that creates
laws.

Executive Branch
Define: Supports the laws made by the legislative
branch.

Judicial Branch

define: responsible for interpreting the laws.

Federal Government
Define: the nature of a union of states under a
central government

3/5th Compromise

Define:compromise reached between delegates.

New Jersey Plan

Define: A proposal

Great Compromise
Define:an agreement that large and small states
reached

Senate
Define:the small upper assembly in the us
congress.

House of Representatives
Define: The lower part of the states congress

Virginia Plan
Define: A proposal

Bill of Rights
Define:The first 10 amendments to the U.S.
Constitution

Federalist (Democrat)

Define: An advocate for or supporter

Anti-Federalist (Republican)
Define:a movement that opposed the creation of a
stronger U.S. federal government.

Conflict
Define: A disagreement between 2 or more people

Debate
Define: 2 sets of people argue about 1 topic

Compromise
Define:An agreement or a settlement

Alliance/Ally
Define: An association joined by mutual benefits.

Taxes
Define: A contribution to a state.

George Washington
Define: The first president of the united states.

Alexander Hamilton
Define: A founding father of the united states.

Farewell Address

Define: A letter written by the first american

president.

Political Parties
Define: An organised group of people that seeks
to influence public policy.

Thomas Jefferson
Define: An american founding father

Whiskey Rebellion
Define: a revolt of settlers in western
Pennsylvania in 1794 against a federal excise tax
on whiskey

Alien and sedition act

Define:A series of laws, passed during the
presidency of John Adams at the end of the
eighteenth century

National Bank
Define:a commercial bank that is chartered under
the federal government and is a member of the
Federal Reserve System.

The French Revolution

Define:Revolution in France from 1789 to 1799.

John Marshall
Define: Was the fourth chief of justice.

Supreme Court
Define: The highest judicial court in a country or
state.

Judicial Review
Define: Review by the U.S. supreme court of the
constitutional of a legislative act.

Marbury V. Madison
Define: A case decided by the supreme court.

Court
Define: A placed presied over by a judge during a
case.

Rule of Law (Precedence)

Define: The restriction of power by subordinating
it to well-defined and established laws.

Manifest Destiny

Define: When people

believe they are right.

Northeastern US
Define: A graphical region of the united states
bounded to the north.

Southeastern US
Define: Its the east portion of the united states.

Textiles
Define: A type of cloth or woven fabric.

Economy
Define: The wealth of a country or region.

Industrialization
Define: A process when the world changes it self
from a primary agricultural society into one.

Agricultural Revolution
Define: A period of transition from the preagricultural period into a agricultural period.

Innovations
Define: A new idea

Antebellum
Define: Existing before a war.

Temperance
Define: Abstinence from alcoholic drink

Suffrage
Define: The right to vote.

Free Compulsory Education

Define: To be able to go to school for free.

Abolition
Define:the action or an act of abolishing a system

Compromise of 1850
Define:a package of five separate bills passed by
the United States Congress in September 1850

House Divided Speech

Define: An address given by Abraham Lincoln

Wilmot Proviso
Define: An event leading to stop slavery