Vocabulary I
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Vocabulary II
100
people who study the artifacts of ancient cultures
What is an archeologist?
100
This doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
President Thomas Jefferson wanted these two men to make contact with Native American groups and find a river route to the Pacific.
Who are Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
100
This man led nonviolent protests to support civil rights.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
100
people who hunted animals and gathered plants for food
Who are hunter-gathers?
200
to break away or formally withdraw
What is to secede?
200
Americans move west in the 1840s in search of these two things.
What is land and gold?
200
The reason why Native American groups move to reservations in the 1800s.
What is they were forced by the government?
200
This New Deal program still exists today
What is Social Security?
200
rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union
What is the Cold War?
300
a belief or custom handed down through generations
What is a tradition?
300
Which of the following was native to the Americas: wheat, apples, corn or cows
What is corn?
300
A settlement ruled by another country?
What is a colony?
300
Colonists in North America angry with Great Britain because they would not allow them to form a new ___________.
What is a government?
300
made by hand or machines
What is manufactured?
400
the way of life of a group of people
What is culture?
400
Which plants and animals did Europeans bring to the Americas during the Columbian Exchange? Name two.
What is wheat, horses, pigs, cows, turkeys, pineapples, and rice?
400
The name of the plan that President Franklin Roosevelt offered to help people during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
400
This told colonists not to move west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
400
all the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service
What is an industry?
500
someone who represents a group of people
What is a delegate?
500
Where did the first Americans come from? How did they get here?
What is Asia and from a piece of land (land bridge) that connected Asia and America thousands of years ago?
500
This allowed Native Americans to stay in one place and not have to hunt animals for food.
What is agriculture?
500
Great Britain wanted colonists to pay for its war against France so they made these two acts.
What is the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts
500
an area of land that is governed by a country, but is not a state
What is a territory?
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