This was the land bridge between Asia and North America that the first Americans crossed.
What is Berengia?
100
This was the first English colony in North America. The colonists disappeared and historians still do not know what happened to them.
What is Roanoke?
100
The British and French fought a war in 1754 over land.
What is the French and Indian War?
100
This is the method by which a president is elected. Each state has a number of these based on the amount of senators and congressman they have.
What is electoral college?
100
Andrew Jackson started this policy in which he forced Native Americans off their land.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
200
Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492 looking for this.
What is Asia?
200
This was the first permanent English colony in North America. They had John Smith as their leader.
What is Jamestown?
200
This British monarch passed many taxes and harsh laws on the American colonists.
Who is King George?
200
The three branches of government.
What is Judicial Branch, Legislative Branch, and Executive Branch?
200
This was the belief that it was the God given right of Americans to take over the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
This was the first time in history that people, plants, animals, and diseases were transported across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
300
This was a period in Jamestown history when the colonists were starving and in some cases had to resort to cannibalism.
What is the starving time?
300
This event consisted of frustrated colonists who were upset with the King's taxes on tea.
What is the Boston Tea Part?
300
This system ensures that no one branch of government becomes too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
300
This was the land in the middle of North America the the U.S. bought from France.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
400
This was the method in which the Spanish conquistadors were able to defeat the Aztecs.
What is superior weapons and diseases?
400
Colonists at both Roanoke and Jamestown did not want to work. They came to North America thinking they would get rich from gold. This is why they were dependent on these people.
Who are Native Americans?
400
This is the date and location that the colonists declared independence from Great Britain.
What is July 4, 1776 in Philadelphia?
400
This part of the Bill of rights says that U.S. citizens have the right to bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
400
This was the war the U.S. fought with Mexico to acquire California, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona.
What is the Mexican- American War?
500
These were the three ways that the French were different than the Spanish.
What is by being business partners, learning the language, and marrying the Native American women.
500
In 1621, Pilgrims celebrated a harvest feast with Native Americans. The pilgrims would have starved if the Native Americans did not help them.
What is Thanksgiving?
500
The Declaration of Independence said that all men were...
What is entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
500
This part of the Bill of Rights says that the police cannot search you without probable cause.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
500
Ever since the first colonists settled at Jamestown, Americans have always wanted to move __________ and get _______.