The first European to sail up what is now the Hudson River in New York.
Who is Henry Hudson?
100
What was the staple food for the Southwest region?
What is corn?
100
Secret organization of American patriots which originated in the pre-independence British North American colonies.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
100
The largest land acquisition from France
during Thomas Jefferson’s presidency (1803), doubling
the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
A person who is strongly opposed to slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
200
An Italian sailor who set out to find a new route to the East by sailing West.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
What Native American group lived in Longhouses?
Who are the Eastern Woodlands?
200
For the role he played in winning and securing American independence, he is generally recognized as one of the most important figures in all of U.S. history. He also is called Father of his Country.
Who is George Washington?
200
The expedition from 1804-1806 that gathered information about the land gained by the Louisiana Purchase and sought an overland route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
200
System of sheltering and aiding
runaway slaves on their northward journey to free
territory in the decades before the Civil War.
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
The Spanish explorer who looked for the Fountain of Youth in Florida.
Who is Ponce de Leon?
300
A group of people with ways of life, religion, and learning
What is a civilization?
300
Document proclaiming the independence of the 13 British colonies in America, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
The discovery of gold brought the people west to this state. It was also famous for encouraging the construction of wagons, roads and railroads going west.
What is the California Gold Rush?
300
Escaped slave, one of the most famous
conductors on the Underground Railroad; risked her life
on 19 journeys back to Maryland to help more than 300
slaves to freedom; called “Black Moses.”
Who is Harriet Tubman?
400
King Henry VII granted this explorer and his three sons the right to seek islands and countries towards the west, east, and north, with five ships under the English flag.
Who is John Cabot?
400
What is the land bridge theory?
What is the the bridge from Asia to North America that brought the Native Americans over?
400
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. Known for "The Shot Heard Around The World."
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
400
Products could be moved more cheaply and much faster by this new method of land transportation in the 1830's.
What is the steam locomotive? Railroad
400
Who was the President during the Civil War?
Who is Abraham Lincoln ?
500
What happened during Hudson's last voyage?
His crew abandoned him and left him at sea
500
What is migration?
What is the movement of people?
500
Who rode through the night and warned that the "British were coming!"
Who is Paul Revere?
500
Why were people traveling West? (3 reasons)
Business Gold Religion
500
The Battle during the Civil War that Lincoln gave a speech