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| Abraham Lincoln For writing about Abraham Lincoln: debate, campaign, Civil War, Robert E. Lee, slavery, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg, assassination… created: January 6, 2009 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Afghanistan For writing about Afghanistan: empire, artifact, Genghis Khan, Hindu Kush, Khyber Pass, Islam, border, Taliban, mujahideen, landmine… created: October 7, 2008 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| American Revolution 1 For writing about the American Revolution—people, places, events: Thomas Jefferson, Bunker Hill, Boston Tea Party, boycott... revised: Oct 10, 2005 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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American Revolution 2 An expanded version of American Revolution 1, including Olive Branch Petition, John Jay, self-government, writs of assistance... revised: Oct 10, 2005 words: 1300 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Ancient Assyria Words and phrases for writing about life in Ancient Assyria: Nineveh, Mesopotamia, palace, winged statue, military... revised: Oct 12, 2005 words: 1100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Ancient Babylon Words and phrases for writing about life in Ancient Babylon: law, astronomy, Hammurabi, Hanging Gardens, Mesopotamia, Nebuchadnezzar... revised: Oct 12, 2005 words: 1100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Ancient Egypt 1 Basic words for writing about everyday life in ancient Egypt, including buildings, kings, queens, pyramids, and religion. revised: Feb 1, 2006 words: 1100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Ancient Egypt 2 Same as Ancient Egypt 1 with the addition of advanced words and names: artisan, conquest, decline, plunder ... Amon-Re, Hyksos, Senusret. revised: Feb 1, 2006 words: 1400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Ancient Greece 1 Basic words and phrases about the arts, sciences, politics, and everyday life in Ancient Greece. created: Jan 17, 2002 words: 1400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Ancient Greece 2 Basic AND advanced words and phrases about the arts, sciences, politics, and everyday life in Ancient Greece. created: Jan 16, 2002 words: 1800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Ancient Rome 1 Basic words for writing about everyday life in Ancient Rome. Names of famous people and places in the Roman empire. revised: Oct 12, 2005 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Ancient Rome 2 Words for Roman religious beliefs, legends, entertainment, achievements, and legacies. Names of people and places in the Roman empire. revised: Oct 12, 2005 words: 1200 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Ancient Sumer 1 Words and phrases for BASIC writing about life in Ancient Sumer: Ur, Mesopotamia, Babylon, ziggurat, trade route, cuneiform, clay tablet, burial... created: Apr 19, 2002 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Ancient Sumer 2 Same as Ancient Sumer 1 but with additional words for ADVANCED writing about life in Ancient Sumer: authentic, economic, sacrificial ... Akkadia, Chaldea, Kudumu... created: Apr 19, 2002 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Antarctic Explorers For writing about the exploration of Antarctica: Captain Cook, Robert F. Scott, South Pole, the Endurance, Mawson, Richard Byrd… created: May 6, 2009 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Arctic Explorers For writing about Arctic explorations: John Franklin, Baffin Bay, starvation, expedition, Roald Amundsen, harbor, Inuit, ice, the Northwest Passage... created: May 23, 2006 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Aztecs For writing about the Aztecs: their way of life, religious beliefs, achievements, and legacies. revised: Oct 12, 2005 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Battle of Britain For writing about the Battle of Britain at the beginning of World War II: battle, pilot, Spitfire, English Channel, attack, parachute, coastal defense... created: Mar 23, 2006 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Cesar Chavez For writing about the life and work of Cesar Chavez: boycott, grape strike, migrant worker, nonviolence, labor union, bracero, discrimination... created: Aug 14, 2006 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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China For writing about the geography and history of China: Great Wall, Ming dynasty, defense, Sun Yat-sen, Mao Zedong, Beijing, modernization… created: December 11, 2008 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Civil War 1 For writing about the US Civil War and events leading up to it: abolitionist, Abraham Lincoln, Fort Sumter, slavery, Robert E. Lee, Gettysburg... revised: Oct 6, 2005 words: 1100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Civil War 2 All the words in Civil War 1, plus more names, places, and battles: Mary Ann Bickerdyke, Opequon Creek, the Fire Zouaves... revised: Oct 6, 2005 words: 1600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Economic Issues
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England 1485 to 1714 |
First Nations Eastern |
First Nations Northern |
First Nations Plains |
First Nations Western |
Frederick Douglass |
French Revolution For writing about the French Revolution: Estates-General, taxes, Louis XVI, Robespierre, the Reign of Terror, tricolor, guillotine… created: October 2, 2007 words: 1,000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| Gladiators Words for writing about gladiators in Roman times: amphitheater, contest, Spartacus, trident, net... revised: Oct 13, 2005 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Great Depression USA For writing about the Depression: Wall Street, stock market, Herbert Hoover, breadline, Dust Bowl, bankruptcy, FDR, New Deal… created: February 1, 2008 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Henry VIII |
Holocaust |
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| Immigration History North America For writing about the history of immigration to the USA and Canada: refugee, Ellis Island, labor, quota, assimilation… created: March 10, 2008 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Industrial Revolution For writing about the Industrial Revolution: steam engine, factory, Henry Bessemer, capitalism, labor pool, tenement… created: November 6, 2007 words: 1,000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Iraq War |
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Labor History North America |
Leonardo da Vinci |
Lewis and Clark |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Mexican History |
Napoleon Bonaparte For writing about Napoleon Bonaparte: First Empire, Trafalgar, blockade, Napoleonic Wars, St. Helena, Waterloo, exile… created: October 2, 2007 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Native American History |
Nelson Mandela |
Olaudah Equiano |
Old West Words about westward expansion in the U.S. and Canada: people, places, animals, equipment, and activities. revised: Oct 14, 2005 words: 1500 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Panama Canal |
Rosa Parks For writing about Rosa Parks and her part in the civil rights movement: bus boycott, Montgomery, segregation, Jim Crow laws, color, courage... created: Jan. 18, 2006 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Russian Revolution |
Sitting Bull For writing about Sitting Bull: chief, Lakota, Black Hills, Fort Laramie Treaty, honor, lie, sacred, George Armstong Custer… created: May 1, 2008 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary | |
Slave Trade Britain | Slavery in USA For writing about slavery in the United States: plantation, cotton, forced labor, overseer, Emancipation Proclamation, Civil War, abolition… created: May 5, 2007 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Terrorism | Thomas Edison |
Titanic | U.S. Constitution For writing about the U.S. Constitution and how it came to be: Independence Hall, the Preamble, James Madison, checks and balances, the Bill of Rights... created: Aug 19, 2006 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| U.S. History thru 1865 Basic words and names covering U.S. history through the Civil War. Does not include Reconstruction. revised: Oct 14, 2005 words: 2200 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary | U.S. Presidential Election |
U.S. Presidents | Vietnam War |
| Vikings 1 Basic words for writing about the Vikings - people, places, way of life—and their discovery of North America: longship, Norsemen, Eric the Red, Icelander... revised: May 16, 2004 words: 1000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary | Vikings 2 All the words in Vikings 1 plus more words for their conquests and life in Europe: Gokstad, Mjollnir, Uppsala, quernstone, thane, wergeld... revised: Oct 14, 2005 words: 2100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| William Wallace For writing about the Scottish hero William Wallace: Braveheart, patriot, rebel, victory, battle, armor, betray, Stirling… created: March 10, 2008 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary | Women’s Vote North America For writing about women’s suffrage in the U.S.A. and Canada: ballot, reform, Susan B. Anthony, franchise, prison, hunger strike, Nineteenth Amendment… created: June 8, 2009 words: 500 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| Women’s Vote U.K. For writing about women’s suffrage in the U.K.: franchise, Emmeline Pankhurst, arrest, protest, hunger strike, Women’s Social and Political Union… created: June 8, 2009 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary | World War I For writing about World War I: the Allies, trench warfare, poison gas, armor, the Western Front, Woodrow Wilson, the Treaty of Versailles... created: Aug 19, 2006 words: 1500 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| World War II For writing about World War II: Nazi, Hitler, the Allies, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pearl Harbor, the Normandy invasion, concentration camp, Iwo Jima... created: Dec 11, 2005 words: 1400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary | Wright Brothers For writing about the Wright Brothers, their invention of the first controlled, powered airplane, and the first flights in it. revised: Oct 14, 2005 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |