Native Americans
This Native American tradition involves passing down stories, songs, and history by word of mouth from one generation to the next.
What is oral tradition?
This Italian explorer sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, thinking he would reach Asia but instead reached the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This term describes a settlement or region controlled by a distant country.
What is a colony?
The colonists were angry because Britain taxed their goods without giving them this in government decisions.
What is representation (or a say/vote)?
This is the name for the first ten amendments added to the U.S. Constitution to protect citizens' freedoms.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The Great Plains tribes hunted this large animal for food, hides, and bones
What is buffalo or bison?
This instrument helped explorers find their direction by pointing toward the magnetic North Pole.
What is a compass?
These three regions made up the Thirteen Colonies: New England, the Middle Colonies, and this one to the south.
What are the Southern Colonies?
This general led the Continental Army and is known as the "Father of His Country."
Who is George Washington?
: The First Amendment protects this freedom, which allows people to express their opinions without fear of punishment.
What is freedom of speech?
The Navajo people of the Southwest built these dome-shaped homes made of wood and earth.
What are hogans?
This Spanish explorer sailed around the entire world, proving it was round (though he died before completing the journey)
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
: Most colonists in the Southern Colonies worked on these large farms that grew cash crops like tobacco and rice.
What are plantations?
This document, signed in 1776, declared that the colonies were free and independent from British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This First Amendment right allows Americans to practice any religion they choose, or no religion at all.
What is freedom of religion?
This term refers to the first people who lived in North America thousands of years ago.
What are Native Americans?
This water route between Europe and Asia that explorers searched for would have shortened travel time, but it was blocked by ice.
What is the Northwest Passage?
The colonists elected representatives to this governing body to make laws and decisions for their colony.
What is a legislature (or assembly)?
This 1775 battle near Boston was the first major battle of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord (or Bunker Hill)?
This Second Amendment right protects the right of citizens to own and carry this.
What are guns (or firearms/weapons)?
This Pacific Northwest tribe is famous for carving totem poles and fishing for salmon
Who are the Tlingit?
Explorers were motivated to find new lands for these three main reasons: gold, God, and this.
What is glory (or trade)?
: Many colonists came to America for religious freedom, to escape poverty, or to find these precious metals and resources.
What is gold (or wealth/riches)?
This 1783 treaty officially ended the American Revolution and recognized American independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The Sixth Amendment guarantees that people accused of crimes have the right to a fair trial and this person to defend them in court.
What is a lawyer (or attorney)?