Early America
This agreement, signed aboard a ship in 1620, established self-government among the Pilgrims.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The belief that the United States was destined to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The famous Lakota Sioux leader who resisted U.S. expansion into Native American lands.
Who was Chief Sitting Bull?
Immigration station that welcomed millions of immigrants arriving in New York Harbor between 1892 and 1954.
What is Ellis Island?
The date on which Americans celebrate Independence Day.
What is the Fourth of July?
This religious group left England to practice their faith freely and greatly influenced early American society.
Who are the Puritans?
The term describes the moving line between settled and unsettled land in American history.
What is the Frontier?
The major Native American victory against the U.S. Army.
What was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
A metaphor that describes different cultures blending into a single American identity.
What is the Melting Pot?
The nickname of the personification of the United States government.
Who is Uncle Sam?
The celebration remembers a feast shared by Pilgrims and Native Americans in 1621.
What is Thanksgiving?
This U.S. president signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Who was President Andrew Jackson?
The Trail of Tears mainly affected these Native American nations.
Who were the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole?
A concept that emphasizes the coexistence of different cultural groups while preserving their identities.
What is multiculturalism?
It is the official nickname of the American flag?
What is The Stars and Stripes (Old Glory)?
According to many historians, this Native American tribe helped the Pilgrims survive their first winter.
Who are the Wampanoag?
The forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans from the Southeast to present-day Oklahoma called.
What was the Trail of Tears?
The monument carved into a mountain in South Dakota stands on land considered sacred by the Lakota people.
What is Mount Rushmore?
The American value which emphasizes self-reliance and personal responsibilit.
What is Individualism?
The Hollywood actress who became one of the most famous cultural icons of the 1950s and 1960s.
Who was Marilyn Monroe?
This biblical term was used by settlers who saw America as a 'Promised Land.'
What is New Canaan?
This mountain range area, sacred to the Lakota people, became the site of a gold rush in 1874.
What are the Black Hills?
It was built on land taken from the Lakota Sioux in the Black Hills.
What is Mount Rushmore?
A term often used to describe the hope that anyone can achieve success through hard work in the United States.
What is the American Dream?
About 12 million immigrants.
Approximately how many immigrants passed through Ellis Island before it closed in 1954?