Founding USA
Listed reasons why colonists in America wanted independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The number of amendments in the Bill of Rights.
What is 10?
Reason people flocked to places like California and the Yukon.
What is gold and silver?
What are the Indian Wars?
Area of the US once known as the "Great American Desert", now it produces much of our food.
What is the Great Plains?
The Declaration of Independence was mostly written by this person.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This amendment protects freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the 1st Amendment?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This was land set aside by the US government to be settled by the various Indian tribes.
What are reservations?
This US motto means "Out of many [comes] one".
What is "E Pluribus Unum"?
This document set up the first government for the new United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This amendment protects the right to bear arms.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
This offered land available to settlers who would live and farm on it.
What is the Homestead Act?
This law sought to "Americanize" Native Americans by abolishing tribal structure and handing out land individually from the reservation.
What is the Dawes Act of 1887?
This word means to adopt another's culture and ways.
What is assimilate?
What replaced the Articles of Confederation.
What is the US Constitution?
This amendment protects against unreasonable search/seizure.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This industry boomed with the spreading of the railroad, which allowed product to be shipped east from Kansas/Missouri.
What is the cattle industry?
Act of Congress granting US citizenship to Native Americans born in the US.
What is the American Indian Citizenship Act (1924)?
This technology helped farmers break the soil of the Great Plains.
What is the steel plow?
The number of branches under the US Constitution.
What is three branches?
This amendment provides for "due process" protections.
What is the 5th Amendment?
Farmers in the Great Plains often had to build homes from this material due to lack of trees.
What is sod?
Site of major Indian victory over US troops. General George Custer defeated by Sitting Bull.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
With the Transcontinental Railroad and westward expansion, this was closed by the end of the 19th century.
What is the American frontier?