Vocabulary Terms

Students who are taking the AP U.S. History Exam should memorize the following vocabulary terms.

These important U.S. history concepts are essential to your success on the AP US History (APUSH) exam.

Every important vocabulary word from American Pageant (13th edition), broken down chapter-by-chapter for quick review.

• Chapter 1: New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C. - A.D. 1768
• Chapter 2: The Planting of English America, 1500-1733
• Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700
• Chapter 4: American Life in Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692
• Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775
• Chapter 6: The Duel for North America, 1608-1763
• Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775
• Chapter 8: America Secedes from the Empire, 1775-1783
• Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790
• Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800
• Chapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of Jeffersonian Democracy, 1800-1812
• Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812-1824
• Chapter 13: The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy, 1824-1830
• Chapter 14: Jacksonian Democracy at Flood Tide, 1830-1840
• Chapter 15: Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860
• Chapter 16: The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860
• Chapter 17: The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860
• Chapter 18: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848
• Chapter 19: Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854
• Chapter 22: The Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865
• Chapter 23: The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
• Chapter 24: Politics in the Gilded Age, 1869-1889
• Chapter 25: Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900
• Chapter 26: America Moves to the City, 1865-1900
• Chapter 27: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1890
• Chapter 28: The Revolt of the Debtor 1889-1900
• Chapter 29: The Path of Empire, 1890–1899
• Chapter 30: American on the World Stage, 1899-1909
• Chapter 31: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901- 1912
• Chapter 32: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, 1912-1916