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Unit 8 (Chapter 13 and 14) - G-PERSIA Vocabulary
Expansion and Reform
VOCABULARY:
On a separate sheet of paper, write each word below and its correct definition. Use the textbook chapter definition FIRST before attempting to look up the word in the textbook glossary. Be sure to put your name on your vocabulary sheet.
1. Santa Fe Trail
2. Oregon Trail
3. Manifest Destiny
4. forty-niner
5. Battle of the Alamo
6. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
7. Mexican Cession
8. California gold rush
9. push-pull factor
10. romanticism
11. Hudson River School
12. transcendentalism
13. civil disobedience
14. revival
15. Temperance movement
16. abolition
17. suffrage
18. 2nd Great Awakening
19. Underground Railroad
20. Seneca Falls Convention
G – P E R S I A.
1. Using G-PERSIA, write each vocabulary word in the correct category on the Chart on the back page. WORDS NOT WRITTEN ON THE CHART ITSELF WILL NOT BE GRADED – PERIOD.
2. Write a brief justification statement that explains HOW each word fits in the category. CHOOSE THE BEST CATEGORY FOR EACH WORD AND WRITE EACH WORD ONLY ONCE IN A CATEGORY.
3. WRITE YOUR WORDS AND STATEMENTS ONLY ON THE ATTACHED CHART.
G – P E R S I A:
Geography - climate, nature, landforms, plants, animals, environment, natural phenomena or disaster
Political – leaders, types of government, laws, punishment, wars, conflicts
Economic – currency, business, trade
Religion – God or gods, church structure, rituals
Society – family structure, common customs, community, celebrations
Intellectual– education, science, new technology, new invention, new concept or new idea
Aesthetics or Art – poetry, literature, painting, sculpture, nature, natural beauty
Do NOT write your word definitions on the chart!
Use another sheet of paper to write your definitions.
Be sure to staple your definitions behind the
this sheet before we check the assignment in class!
G – P E R S I A
Be sure to write your statement explaining why each word fits into the category you selected!
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You MUST write both WORD and JUSTIFICATION on this chart!
If you need more space, you may print another copy of the chart from the class website.