Settlers
This was the explorer who came to the Americas in 1492.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Nickname for gold miners in San Francisco during the Gold Rush.
What are 49ers?
What is the Union and the Confederate?
Holiday celebrating America's Independence
What is the 4th of July?
The land that Columbus was looking for on his expedition
What is Asia?
Changes to the Constitution.
What are amendments?
This was the big boom in industries, travel, and communications.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The President who said the United States needed to stay together and fought against slavery.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment protects our free speech and freedom of religion
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This is the land that Thomas Jefferson purchased that doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Territory (Purchase)?
Americans' duty to expand west.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This woman helped free slaves using the underground railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This document sets up the government that we still use today.
What is the Constitution?
This is a settlement ruled by another country
What is a colony?
This section is the introduction and starts with the iconic phrase "We the People"
What is the Preamble?
Device created at the time to improve communications
What is the telegraph?
Era in which the nation had to repair itself after the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
This is the name for the first 10 amendments
What is the Bill of Rights?
The first group of representatives to create laws for the people
What is the House of Burgesses?
King George III drew an imaginary line that prevented the colonists expanding past the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This was the new method to delivery letters.
Area of land that the government sets aside for Native Americans
What is reservation?
People who invest their money into a business to help start it up.
Who are entrepreneurs?