Unit 1 - Exploration
This Italian explorer sailed for Spain in 1492 and reached the Americans
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This event involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor in 1773.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This document is the supreme law of the United States.
What is the United States Constitution?
This 1803 purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisana Purchase?
This issue was the primary reason of starting the Civil War.
What is slavery?
Europeans wanted this valuable Asian trade item, leading them to search for new sea routes.
What are spices or silk?
Colonists used this phrase to protest their lack of voice in Parliament.
What is "No Taxation Without Representation"?
The U.S. government is divided into these three branches.
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches?
These two explorers led an expedition through the Louisiana Territory.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
This president led the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This technological tool helped sailors determine direction at sea.
What is a compass?
This paper declared the colonies' seperation from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This system prevents any one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
This belief stated that the United States was destined to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This document declared freedom for enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This exchange introduced horses to the Americas and corn to Europe.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This act allowed for English soldiers to enter your home and take whatever they wanted.
What is the Quartering Act?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known by this name.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Thousands traveled this route to head west in covered wagons in the 1840s. Many did not survive.
What is the Oregan Trail?
North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida were some states that seceded and joined this group of southern states.
What was the Confederate States of America?
This triangular shaped trade route connected these three continents, each providing different trade items like food, animals, and slaves.
This 1781 battle in Virginia effectively ended major fighting in the Revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
What two types of representation are present in the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This war included the U.S. and another country fighting over which river was the border.
Mexican-American War
These constitutional amendments abolished slavery, granted citizenship, and protected voting rights after the war. (Need all 3)
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?