Indigenous People
And example of THIS kind of statement is:
We acknowledge the original inhabitants of this area, the Coast Salish people. Since time immemorial, they have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands. We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water. We will strive to be honest about our past mistakes and bring about a future that includes their people, stories, and voices to form a more just and equitable society
What is a land acknolwedgement?
THIS original colony was led by John Smith, and it survived many difficult winters.
What is Jamestown?
Signed in 1776, THIS document was a statement of freedom from the colonies.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
THESE are the three branches of government.
What are the executive, judicial, and legislative branches?
THIS pathway westward began in Independence, Missouri and was a major route to the Northwest Territory for settlers looking to stake a claim.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This major mountain range was a dangerous barrier to the settlers traveling westward.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
THIS is an agreement between nations, outlining each nation's rights, boundaries, and sovereignty.
What is a treaty?
These are six of the 13 original colonies.
What are New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia?
THESE acts closed the port of Boston, made town meetings illegal, and forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
THIS is the name for a new law when it is added to the original Constitution
What is an amendment?
This precious metal was discovered in California and led to a major migration of opportunistic settlers looking to get rich.
What is gold?
THIS is the capital of Montana
What is Helena?
This is the name of the protagonist in the story The Peacekeeper, who has the gift of song.
Who is Okwaho?
This colony was founded on the idea of equality, nonviolence, and religious tolerance, and the founders promoted education for all children.
What is Pennsylvania?
This massacre in 1770 increased tensions between the British and the Colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
THIS is the name for the first ten amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights?
THIS was the name for the idea that justified the belief that the United States was supposed to inherit the land of the Americas and it was determined by God.
What is Manifest Destiny?
THESE are all the states that border Washington.
What are Idaho and Oregon?
THIS is the proper name for the indigenous confederation of tribes on the Northeast Woodlands, called the "Iroquois" by European colonizers
Who are the Haudenosaunee?
THIS early colony disappeared, and to this day no one knows why.
What is the Roanoke Colony?
THIS English leader was in power during the time of the American Revolution.
Who is King George III?
THIS is the name for a proposal that goes to the legislative branch to be debated and eventually become a law (or not).
What is a bill?
THIS was a harmful, unethical, (some would say evil) practice used by colonizers to get a free labor force, kidnapping people from Africa (and also indigenous people) and forcing them to work for their whole lives with no freedom and no pay.
What is slavery?
THIS river separates Oregon and Washington
What is the Columbia River?
Signed into law on May 28, 1830 by Andrew Jackson, THIS authorized the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
THESE were the three main motivations for the explorers from Europe who came to the Americas
What is gold, god, and glory?
THIS act put a tax on all paper products.
What is the Stamp Act.
THIS is the Preamble to the Constitution
What is: We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and, secure the blessings of liberty, to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution of the United States of America.
THIS is the name for the purchase of land in 1803 that more than doubled the size of the United States, expanding US territory across the Mississippi River negotiated with France.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
THESE are the names of all the Great Lakes
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior