Vocabulary
Lesson 1: The First Communities
Lesson 2: Building Communities
Lesson 3: Fighting for Freedom
Lesson 4: Growth and Change
100

People who came to the Americas from Europe to learn more about the land

What are explorers?

100

Native Americans hunted, farmed, and fished for this

What is food?

100

The explorer who "founded" the United States in 1492

Who is Christopher Columbus?

100

The 13 colonies were ruled by what country FIRST

What is Britain?

100

The West offered this to many travelers (2 answers)

What is jobs and land?

200
Someone who comes to live in a country from somewhere else

What is an immigrant?

200

History learned through spoken stories

What is oral history?

200

When Africans were taken from their home and forced into this

What is slavery?

200

Money paid to the government when buying goods and services

What is a tax?

200

The name of the 3 main people who traveled through the Louisiana Purchase

Who are Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea?

300

Land that belongs to the government

What is a territory?

300

People can build this to protect themselves from weather

What is shelter?

300

Explorers came to America for these three things

What is to claim land, to spread religion, or to find treasure?

300

A set of laws that tells how the government works

What is the Constitution of the United States?

300

This helped President Jefferson double the size of the country (now known as the United States)

What is the Louisiana Purchase?

400

When two parts of one country fight

What is a civil war?

400

The very first people to live in North America

Who are the Native Americans?

400

These two groups were in conflict at Jamestown

Who are the Native Americans and the English settlers?

400

The first President of the United States of America

Who is George Washington?

400

Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in order to do this

What is free the enslaved people?

500

A new community, an example would be St. Louis

What is a settlement?

500

The name for the shelter used by Native Americans

What are tepees?

500

The oldest lasting European settlement in what is now the United States

What is St. Augustine?

500

A feeling of pride in one's country

What is patriotism?

500

The name of people who come to live in a country from somewhere else in the world

What are immigrants?

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