US History Summer Reading Vocab

Adena

Anasazi

Athapascan

Aztec

Beringia

Cahokia

Clovis

Hohokam

Hopeqell

Inca

Iroquois

Kashaya Pomo

Kwakiutl

Maya

Mesoamerica

Mississippian

Mound Builders

Olmec

Pueblo

Christopher Columbus

Hernán Cortés

Prince Henry the Navigator

Bartolomé de Las Casas

New Mexico (Colonial Spain)

New Spain

Juan Ponce de Léon

Taíno

Sir Edmund Andros

Nathaniel Bacon

Congregationalists

Dominion of New England

Jonathan Edwards

Olaudah Equiano

Gold Coast

House of Burgesses

Anne Hutchinson

Jamestown

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Matoaka/Pocahontas

Metacom

New France

New Lights

New Netherland

Old Lights

Paxton Boys

William Penn

Pilgrims

Plymouth Colony

Powhatan

Protestant

Puritans

Quakers

John Rolfe

Separatists

John Smith

George Whitefield

Roger Williams

John Winthrop

Archaic Period

Clans

Division of Labor

Kachina

Maize

Nomadic

Pleistocene Overkill

Rancheria

Transoceanic migrations

caravel

colonization

Columbian Exchange

conquistador

encomienda

feudalism

mestizo

Reconquista

Renaissance

Treaty of Tordesillas

Almanac

Bacon’s Rebellion

Beaver Wars

Cash Crop

Covenant Chain

Coureurs de Bois

Culpeper’s Rebellion

Enlightenment

enumerated goods

First Great Awakening

Frame of Government (Pennsylvania)

French and Indian War

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Glorious Revolution

Great Migration (Colonial Period - Puritans)

Half-Way Covenant

Headright system

Indentured Servants

Joint-Stock Company

King George’s War

King Philip’s War

King William’s War

Massachusetts Bay Company

Mayflower Compact