Summer Homework
Becoming a Historian This Summer
Hello Everyone,
As a historian, it is important to develop vast vocabulary and increase your knowledge of content area through the development of vocabulary. Below is a list of terms to define over the summer (due on the first day) to take your first steps in becoming a historian:
Incoming 7th Grade
- Abolitionist
- Agriculture
- Bicameral
- Colony
- Compromise
- Congress
- Constitution
- Democracy
- Economics
- Electoral college
- Executive
- Federal
- Governor
- House of Representatives
- Judicial
- Legislative
- Liberty
- Nullification
- Precedent
- Primary Source
- Secondary Source
- Senate
- Suffrage
- Treaty
- Veto
Incoming 8th Grade
- Abolition
- Boycott
- Civil Rights
- Communism
- Concentration Camp
- Deficit
- Democracy
- Depression (economic)
- Exclusion
- Ethnic Group
- Immigrant
- Industrialization
- Inflation
- Labor Union
- Monopoly
- Recession
- Secondary Source
- Stock Market
- Superpower
- Primary Source
- Prohibition
- Socialism
- Stock
- Trust (economic)
- Urbanization
As stated by the late great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "We are not makers of history. We are made by history." Have a great summer!