Early Settlements
Early European people who came to live in this country.
Colonists
The War was fought between these two Nations
What is Great Britain and the Northern Colonies
People who moved to the West to live.
Pioneers
When a War is fought on home soil between people of the same nation.
Civil War
A building where many people work to make something.
Factories
the early settlements that after formed the 13 founding states.
Colonies
The Loyalist
Men who made a living trading furs for money.
Mountain Men
People who fought for the northern states.
Union Army
People who come to a new country to live.
Immigrants
First people to live in the US, lived in tribes across the country
Native Americans
This was the nickname of the colonist who fought in North America
What are the Patriots.
People who moved to the West to find gold.
Forty-niners
People who fought for the southern states.
Confederate Army
Why did many immigrates come to the United States
To seek the American Dream. For a better life.
Settlements in the south created many large farms call what? They often grew sugar, cotton or tobacco
What are Plantations
After they Patriots won the War, they created this National Document still used today
The Constitution
What element were people searching for when moving West, in hopes to get rich
Gold
When a state left the United States.
Secede
This law was established so that children did not have to work up to 40 hours a week.
Child Labor Laws
This ship brought Colonists to the New Land
What is the Mayflower
A list of rights and freedoms that every American has
Bill of Rights
s the idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.
Manifest Destiny
A document that freed the slaves in the south.
Emancipation Proclamation
In the time period, many families started to establish large sums of money or wealth. This time period is know as the ____ Age
The Gilded Age