Early Americans
Exploration
Colonies to States
The Civil War
20th & 21st Centuries
100
The time before written history
What is prehistory?
100
A land ruled by another country
What is a colony?
100
The overthrow of a government by its subjects
What is a revolution?
100
The main issue that prompted the Civil War
What is slavery?
100
A person who comes to a new country to live
What is an immigrant?
200
Objects that people used long ago
What is an artifact?
200
The victors of the French and Indian War
Who are the British?
200
The document that explained why the British colonies in America wanted independence
What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
The president of the United States of America during the Civil War
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
200
The right to vote, gained by women in the U.S. in 1920
What is suffrage?
300
Based on their ways of getting food, the people of the Eastern Woodlands were known as these
What is hunter-gatherers?
300
A settlement where priests talked about their religion
What is a mission?
300
The leader of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War
Who is George Washington?
300
The document that freed enslaved people in the South
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
This event brought an end to the good times of the 1920s
What is the stock market crashing?
400
Because the Plains Indians had to follow buffalo to survive, they used this type of home
What is a teepee?
400
The team that President Thomas Jefferson sent to explore the Louisiana Territory
Who are Lewis and Clark?
400
The year the Revolutionary War ended
What is 1781?
400
The president of the Confederate States of America
Who was Jefferson Davis?
400
The rights of all citizens to be treated equally under the law
What are civil rights?
500
Most of the fighting among the French, English, and Native Americans was over this
What is land?
500
A nonexistent sailing route from the Great Lakes to Asia the French hoped to find
What is the Northwest Passage?
500
The number of colonies that first became states
What is thirteen?
500
The period following the Civil War
What was Reconstruction?
500
This event began the war on terrorism
What are the attacks of September 11th (2001)
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