Exploration & Colonies
What is the name of the land the Pilgrims came to?
What is America?
Who did the American colonies fight in the Revolutionary War?
What is Great Britain (or England)?
What are the first ten rules (amendments) of the Constitution called?
What is the Bill of Rights?
What did people use to travel west?
What is wagons?
Who was president during the Civil War?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What country did Christopher Columbus sail for?
What is Spain?
What year did the United States become independent?
What is 1776?
How many branches are in the U.S. government?
What is three?
What big land did the U.S. buy from France in 1803?
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
What did the North and South fight over?
What is slavery?
What is the name of the first English colony that survived?
What is Jamestown?
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Who is the leader of the Executive Branch?
What is the president?
What was the long walk forced on Native Americans called?
What is the Trail of Tears?
Who won the Civil War?
Who is the North (or the Union)?
Why did many people come to the colonies?
What is for freedom or a better life?
Why did the colonists want independence?
What is unfair taxes or freedom?
What is the main law of the United States?
What is the Constitution?
What did people hope to find during the Gold Rush?
What is gold?
What law ended slavery in the U.S.?
What is the 13th Amendment?
What ocean did explorers cross to reach America?
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
What was the name of the army led by George Washington?
What is the Continental Army?
What do we call the highest court in the country?
What is the Supreme Court?
What word means Americans believed they should own all the land west?
What is Manifest Destiny?
What do we call the time after the Civil War when the South was being rebuilt?
What is Reconstruction?