Vocabulary
People who came to the Americas from Europe to learn more about the land
What are explorers?
Native Americans hunted, farmed, and fished for this
What is food?
The explorer who "founded" the United States in 1492
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The 13 colonies were ruled by what country FIRST
What is Britain?
The West offered this to many travelers (2 answers)
What is jobs and land?
What is an immigrant?
History learned through spoken stories
What is oral history?
When Africans were taken from their home and forced into this
What is slavery?
Money paid to the government when buying goods and services
What is a tax?
The name of the 3 main people who traveled through the Louisiana Purchase
Who are Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea?
Land that belongs to the government
What is a territory?
People can build this to protect themselves from weather
What is shelter?
Explorers came to America for these three things
What is to claim land, to spread religion, or to find treasure?
A set of laws that tells how the government works
What is the Constitution of the United States?
This helped President Jefferson double the size of the country (now known as the United States)
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
When two parts of one country fight
What is a civil war?
The very first people to live in North America
Who are the Native Americans?
These two groups were in conflict at Jamestown
Who are the Native Americans and the English settlers?
The first President of the United States of America
Who is George Washington?
Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in order to do this
What is free the enslaved people?
A new community, an example would be St. Louis
What is a settlement?
The name for the shelter used by Native Americans
What are tepees?
The oldest lasting European settlement in what is now the United States
What is St. Augustine?
A feeling of pride in one's country
What is patriotism?
The name of people who come to live in a country from somewhere else in the world
What are immigrants?