Vocab 1
This vocabulary word means to break away from or officially withdraw.
What is secede?
This vocabulary word means a settlement ruled by another country.
What is a colony?
This man was the first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This country put the first man on the moon.
What is the United States?
This vocabulary word means crossing a continent.
What is transcontinental?
This vocabulary word means varied.
What is diverse?
This man invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This U.S. Navy base was bombed by Japan, leading us to enter WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This vocabulary word means a person who comes to live in a new land.
What is an immigrant?
This vocabulary word means someone who represents a group of people.
What is a delegate?
This woman refused to give up her seat on the bus, leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
After WWII, the U.S. was considered a superpower because of these two things.
What are a strong military and a strong economy?
This vocabulary word means the way of life of a group of people.
What is culture?
This vocabulary word means to stop doing something in order to protest.
What is boycott?
This man wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
By making it easier to move goods from one place to another, this helped grow American businesses.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This vocabulary word names the period of time when the South was rebuilt following the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
This vocabulary word means separation between white people and African Americans.
What is segregation?
This president created the "New Deal" to give people jobs and make the economy stronger.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
By bringing horses for transportation, new crops, and new diseases, Europeans changed the culture of these people forever.
Who are the American Indians?