Early American History Word Wall Bundle | First Americans to Civil War

This Early American History Word Wall Bundle will be a meaningful addition to your classroom decor and help reinforce key vocabulary words that students will learn about throughout the year! It covers events ranging from the First Americans through the Civil War, which are concepts often taught during 7th grade US History or in the first half of a United States history class at the high school level. Save over 30% by purchasing these word walls together in this bundle!

Use this bundle to help reinforce your vocabulary instruction for diverse learners by allowing students to repeatedly engage with definitions and images of key terms from each unit. You can display individual target words for a specific lesson, hang up a complete set as a reference tool, or even build a growing word wall so students can visualize their accumulating knowledge throughout the year!

Editable Google Slideshows have been included with all of the words and images. If you like, edit the definitions, pictures, or even the words themselves, and present the words to your students or post on Google Classroom!

All of the included cards are available in both a color version and a (mostly) black and white version. These easy-to-read cards are ready to print and display in your classroom!

All cards include the word itself, the definition, and a historical image or photograph to help your visual learners better understand the word. The cards come two to a page, which means the dimensions of each card are about 5 inches tall and 8 inches wide (assuming you cut off the white border on the edge of the page).

This US History word wall bundle includes the following topics:

• Mesoamerican Civilizations and Native Americans Word Wall
• European Exploration Word Wall
• 13 Colonies Word Wall
• American Revolution Word Wall
• Constitution Word Wall
• New Nation Word Wall (Washington and Adams)
• Jefferson, Madison, Monroe Word Wall
• The Age of Jackson and Westward Expansion Word Wall
• Industrial Revolution Word Wall
• Age of Reform Word Wall
• Sectionalism and a Nation Divided Word Wall
• The Civil War Word Wall

All of the resources in this bundle will go directly to your TpT Purchases folder of your Google Drive account after completing your purchase. If you have any technical issues, reach out to us at mrandmrssocialstudies@gmail.com or contact TPT.

The words included in this resource are listed below:

Mesoamerican Civilizations and Native Americans Word Wall:

Migration, Bering Strait, Ice Age, Culture, The Olmec, Civilization, The Maya, City-State, The Aztec, Tenochtitlan, The Inca, Quipu, Hohokam, Anasazi, Adobe, Pueblo, Mound Builders, Cahokia, Tribe, Iroquois League, Maize, Buffalo

European Exploration Word Wall:

Leif Erikson, Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Taino, Columbian Exchange, Smallpox, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Conquistador, Hernán Cortés, Moctezuma, Colony, New Spain, Missionaries, Missions, Henry the Navigator, Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco Da Gama, Amerigo Vespucci, Treaty of Tordesillas, New France, New England, New Netherland

13 Colonies Word Wall:

Jamestown, John Smith, Pocahontas, Indentured Servant, Bacon's Rebellion, Toleration Act of 1649, Olaudah Equiano, Slave Codes, Puritans, Pilgrims, Immigrants, Mayflower Compact, Tisquantum, John Winthrop, Anne Hutchinson, Quakers, William Penn, Cash Crop, English Bill of Rights, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards, John Locke, Enlightenment, Pontiac, Persecution, Salutary Neglect, Slave Trade, Mercantilism, Navigation Acts, Charter, Representative Government, Northwest Passage, Benjamin Franklin

American Revolution Word Wall:

French and Indian War, American Revolution, Samuel Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Paul Revere, Marquis de Lafayette, King George III, Baron Friedrich Von Steuben, First Continental Congress, Second Continental Congress, Continental Army, Patriots, Loyalists, Boston Massacre, Lexington and Concord, Battle of Trenton, Battle of Bunker Hill, Battle of Saratoga, Battle of Yorktown, Stamp Act, Tea Act, Intolerable Acts, Quartering Act, Treaty of Paris, Common Sense, Declaration of Independence, Boston Tea Party, Sons of Liberty, Valley Forge, Guerilla Warfare, Boycott, Minutemen, Blockade, Mercenary

Constitution Word Wall:

Constitution, Preamble, Article, Legislative Branch, Bicameral, Senate, House of Representatives, Necessary and Proper Clause, Executive Branch, President, Veto, Electoral College, Impeach, Judicial Branch, Supreme Court, Judicial Review, Checks and Balances, Separation of Powers, Amendments, Bill of Rights, Federalism, Ratify, Articles of Confederation, Northwest Ordinance, Shay’s Rebellion, Constitutional Convention, Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan, Great Compromise, Three-Fifths Compromise, Federalists, Anti-Federalists

New Nation Word Wall (Washington and Adams):

Electoral College, Inauguration, George Washington, Precedent, Cabinet, Judiciary Act of 1789, National Debt, Bond, Speculators, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Loose Construction, Strict Construction, French Revolution, Neutrality Proclamation, Jay Treaty, Whiskey Rebellion, Political Parties, Federalist Party, Democratic-Republican Party, XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition Acts, John Adams, Washington's Farewell Address, Marbury v. Madison, Judicial Review, Tariff, Faction

Jefferson, Madison, Monroe Word Wall:

Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Laissez Faire, Toussaint Louverture, War of 1812, Impressment, Tecumseh, James Monroe, Monroe Doctrine, Star Spangled Banner, Capitalism, American System, John Marshall, Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark Expedition, Sacagawea, Zebulon Pike, Embargo, War Hawks, Nationalism, McCulloch v. Maryland, Gibbons v. Ogden, Miguel Hidalgo, Simón Bolívar, Adams-Onís Treaty, Election of 1800

The Age of Jackson and Westward Expansion Word Wall:

Andrew Jackson, Jacksonian Democracy, Suffrage, Whig Party, Democratic Party, Spoils System, Sequoyah, Trail of Tears, Secede, Nullification Crisis, Indian Removal Act, Panic of 1837, Manifest Destiny, Frontier, Territory, Alamo, Texas War for Independence, Vaqueros, John C. Fremont, Mountain Men, Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail, Jim Beckwourth, Mexican American War, James Polk, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Gadsden Purchase, California Gold Rush

Industrial Revolution Word Wall:

Industrial Revolution, Textiles, Samuel Slater, Technology, Eli Whitney, Cotton Gin, Interchangeable Parts, Mass Production, Rhode Island System, Lowell System, Trade Union, Strike, Sarah Bagley, Transportation Revolution, National Road, Robert Fulton, Clermont, Samuel Morse, Telegraph, Morse Code, John Deere, Cyrus McCormick, Isaac Singer, Manufacturing, Canal, Erie Canal

Age of Reform Word Wall:

Reform, Second Great Awakening, Temperance Movement, Dorothea Dix, Public School, Horace Mann, Prudence Crandall, Thomas Gallaudet, Samuel Gridley Howe, American Colonization Society, Abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, John Quincy Adams, Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Convention, Declaration of Sentiments, Suffrage, Susan B. Anthony, Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Individualism, Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, Hudson River School

Sectionalism and a Nation Divided Word Wall:

Missouri Compromise, Popular Sovereignty, Wilmot Proviso, Sectionalism, Free-Soil Party, Secede, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Douglas, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Nat Turner, John Brown, Charles Sumner, Republican Party, Dred Scott, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Freeport Doctrine, Harpers Ferry, Constitutional Union Party, Election of 1860, Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis

The Civil War Word Wall:

Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Union, Confederacy, Fort Sumter, Border States, Anaconda Plan, Cotton Diplomacy, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Battle of Bull Run, George B. McClellan, Robert E. Lee, Battle of Antietam, Ironclad, Ulysses S. Grant, Battle of Shiloh, Siege of Vicksburg, Emancipation Proclamation, 54th Massachusetts Infantry, Habeas Corpus, Draft, Income Tax, Inflation, Clara Barton, Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address, William Tecumseh Sherman, Total War, Appomattox Court House

Would you like vocabulary activities for Google Drive that correspond to all of these word wall terms? If so, check out our Early American History Vocabulary Activities Bundle!

If you need U.S. History word wall cards that cover all American History and not just events up to the Civil War, check out this bundle instead.