Documents
The document that declared the 13 colonies independent from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The first people to live in North America.
Who are the Native Americans?
Leader of the Executive Branch.
Who is the President?
A person who studies countries physical and and human features.
What is a geographer?
The system that made transportation easier to get from one side of the country to the other.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The first ten amendments of the Constitution that provides personal freedoms and rights to citizens.
What is the Bill of Rights?
How the King of England felt about colonists making their own rules and choosing their own leaders.
What is upset/mad?
Two groups that the Legislative Branch divides into.
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
Physical features of the Earth.
What are landforms?
A government where people elect their leaders.
What is a democracy?
The document that states how the government is set up and provides personal freedoms and rights to citizens.
What is the Constitution?
The first Europeans settled in this Colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
Another name for the Legislative Branch.
What is Congress?
The five regions.
What are the West, Southwest, Midwest, Southeast and Northeast?
The nickname of people who traveled to California to find gold.
What are 49ers?
The number of colonies that had to ratify, or approve, the Constitution before it became a law.
What is nine?
The leader of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
Who is George Washington?
Another name for the Judicial Branch.
What is the Supreme Court?
A pattern of weather over a long period of time.
What is climate?
The name of the new country the southern states formed after they seceded (or broke away) from the Union.
What are the Confederate States of America?
The Amendment that abolished (ended) slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Two reasons why Immigrants come to the United States.
What is land, wealth, a better life, war or famine?
The three levels of government.
What are Federal, State and Local?
The names of lines that form a grid over the Earth that help you find a location.
What are longitude and latitude?
The meaning of the phrase "E Pluribus Unum".
What is "Out of Many, One"?