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🎻Appalachian Studies
Key Terms

388 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Appalachian Studies exam

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A

Acadian Orogeny
Access to healthcare
African American healing traditions
African American Influence
African American Spirituals
Agricultural modernization
Agricultural restructuring
Agroecological practices
Alan Lomax
Alleghanian Orogeny
Allegheny Mountains
Alternative agriculture
American Civil War
Anglo-Cherokee War
Anne Braden
Anne Newport Royall
Anti-mining protests
Anti-poverty movements
Appalachian Authenticity
Appalachian Coal Mining Crisis
Appalachian cuisine
Appalachian identity and pride
Appalachian Migrants
Appalachian migration patterns
Appalachian Mixed Mesophytic Forests
Appalachian Movement
Appalachian Pride
Appalachian quilt making
Appalachian Regional Commission
Appalachian Regional Commission Programs
Appalachian Regional Development Act
Appalachian Regionalism
Appalachian religious revivals
Appalachian Renaissance
Appalachian Stereotype
Appalachian storytelling
Appalachian Temperate Rainforests
Appalachian textiles
Appalachian Trail
Appalachian woman
Apple butter
Aunt Molly Jackson

B

Ballad singing
Ballads and story songs
Banjo music
Banjo styles
Basket weaving
Battle of Blair Mountain
Battle of Kings Mountain
Battle of Point Pleasant
Bear grease
Bituminous coal
Black Lung Disease
Blue Ridge
Blue Ridge Mountains
Blue Ridge Parkway
Brer Rabbit
Broiler houses

C

Call and response singing
Call and response songs
Canning
Carter Family
Central Appalachia
Cherokee Homeland
Cherokee language
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Cherokee Uktena
Cherokee-American Wars
Chief Cornstalk
Circuit Riders
Clean Coal Technology
Clientelism
Climate-smart agriculture
Coal camp culture
Coal miner