American Cultures Word Cloud

Here is a tag cloud I created based on some of the topics we studied in class this year. This is not a comprehensive list, but it is a good place to start a reflection on what we learned this year. The larger and bolder the term indicates that more emphasis was placed on it during the year. The Gettysburg Address is at the beginning and end of the tag cloud, since it was the theme for the year.

Gettysburg Address
Civility civic mindedness Patriots Loyalists Stamp Act
Stamp Act Congress 1st Continental Congress 2nd Continental Congress Boston Massacre

Boston Tea Party Intolerable Acts Declaration of Independence

Lexington and Concord Battle of Bunker Hill Battle of Long Island

Washington Crossing the Delaware Battle of Princeton Battle of Saratoga
Valley Forge Battle of Camden Battle of Guilford Courthouse Siege of Yorktown
Articles of Confederation Constitutional Convention 3/5 Compromise
Great Compromise Constitution Preamble Separation of Powers

Checks and Balances Federalism Legislative Branch Executive Branch Judicial Branch Amendments Bill of Rights 1st Amendment public policy Scope intensity duration resources Civic duty Democrat-Republicans Federalists Cabinet National debt bonds tariffs Whiskey Rebellion French Revolution

Neutrality Proclamation Jay’s Treaty frigates XYZ Affair Alien and Sedition Acts

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions nullification Election of 1800
Hamilton-Burr duel Lewis and Clark Expedition Louisiana Purchase

Barbary Pirates impressment Embargo Act Non-Intercourse Act War of 1812 slavery

Middle Passage Plantations Triangular Trade abolitionists

Missouri Compromise The Alamo Texas War for Independence Mexican War

Manifest Destiny Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Act Kansas-Nebraska Act “Bleeding Kansas” Election of 1860 Civil War secession Fort Sumter

1st Manassas Antietam Gettysburg Union fishhook Little Round Top Wheatfield Peach Orchard Devil’s Den Seminary Ridge Cemetery Ridge Pickett’s Charge infantry cavalry artillery Company Regiment Brigade Division Corps army Andersonville 54th Massachusetts

George Washington Abraham Lincoln John Hancock Samuel Adams John Adams Abigail Adams Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin

Benedict Arnold Marquis de Lafayette Alexander Hamilton James Madison

John Jay Aaron Burr Meriwether Lewis William Clark Sacajawea

James Monroe Henry Clay Andrew Jackson Sam Houston Jim Bowie Davy Crockett Zachary Taylor

James Polk Stephen Douglas John Brown Frederick Douglass John Calhoun Preston Brooks

Charles Sumner Jefferson Davis Robert E. Lee Stonewall Jackson James Longstreet George Pickett Henry Wirz George Meade Daniel Sickles U.S. Grant William Sherman Robert Gould Shaw
Gettysburg Address