Colonial America
Religious Freedom
What is a reason colonists left England?
An event where colonists dumped hundreds of pounds of tea in to Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The Preamble
What is the introduction to the Constitution?
Animal typically used to pull a wagon on the Oregon Trail.
What is an oxen?
This branch works in the Capital Building
Legislative
Jamestown
What was the first successful colony in the new world?
An event where colonists threw snowballs and aggravated British soldiers until someone accidentally fired a shot and many colonists were killed.
What was the Boston Massacre?
A form of government where the people make the laws and run the government.
What is a democracy?
Anything dried or salt cured.
What are foods typically taken along on the journey on the Oregon Trail?
Who chooses the cabinet members
The President
Roanoke
What is the Lost Colony?
A group of colonists led by Samuel Adams who were against the British control of the colonies.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
This branch of the government is run by Congress.
What is the legislative branch?
1838 - Thousands of Cherokee men, women, and children were forcibly removed from their homes and forced to walk 1,000 miles west to Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Who is a Senator from MA?
Elizabeth Warren
Ed Markey
Tobacco
What was an important crop in the southern colonies?
Famous for saying, "The British are coming! The British are coming!"
Who was Paul Revere?
This branch of the government is run by the president.
What is the Executive Branch?
Two oxen tied together to pull the wagon.
What is a yoke?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are called....
The Bill of Rights
Hornbook
What was a book used by colonial children in school?
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
The two branches of Congress.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
Another name for a pioneer wagon.
What is a prairie schooner?
What keeps one branch from gaining too much power?
Checks and Balances