History Vocab

Keeping something from injury or harm, especially sites relating to our past

• Grid

• Preservation

• Attribute

• Site

The Study of an archaeological site by removing the soil by layer

• Preservation

• Attribute

• Excavation

• Feature

Any place that has remains of human use or occupation

• Site

• Feature

• Excavation

• Grid

adding territory to existing territory

• Annexation

• Manifest Destiny

• Compromise

• Foreign relations

 idea that the United States should expand to include the territory from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

• Compromise

• Manifest Destiny

• Annexation

• Foreign relations

an agreement in which both sides give up some demands

• Foreign relations

• Manifest Destiny

• Compromise

• Domestic affairs

something that is given up in a treaty, generally territory

• Cession

• Foreign relations

• Compromise

• Republic

The process of determining the age of an artifact or site using scientific methods

• A) Stratigraphy

• B) Carbon Dating

• C) Typology

• D) Seriation

A large landmass that is smaller than a continent, often referred to in historical contexts

• A) Peninsula

• B) Island

• C) Subcontinent

• D) Archipelago

The term used to describe the spread of cultural elements from one area or group of people to others by contact

• A) Diffusion

• B) Assimilation

• C) Integration

• D) Segregation