Indigenous Cultures / Exploration / Early Settlers
Plateau, Great Basin, and Plains
What are 3 of the Indiginous People Regions in North America?
Signed aboard the Mayflower, this agreement established self-government for the Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
the Bill or Rights
This branch is responsible for making laws
Legislative Branch
Who were the opposing sides in the American Revolution?
Patriots and British Loyalist
Who were the opposing sides in the American Civil War?
Who are The Union and the Confederacy?
This 19th-century belief held that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
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What is the 1st day back at school after the winter break?
Why did the man fall down that well?
He didn't see that well.
These peoples of the Southwest, including the Hopi and Zuni, built multi-story adobe and stone apartment-style dwellings.
Who are the Pueblo people?
This term describes workers who agreed to labor for several years in exchange for passage to the New World.
What are indentured servants?
The Senate and the House of Representatives.
What are the two chambers that make up Congress?
BONUS: What is the tern that relates to this type of government?
Which branch of government interprets the laws?
Judicial Branch
Patriotism
Fighting for a cause
Home field advantage
What are advantages the Patriots had during the Revolutionary war?
Cotton!
What is one of the main reasons that the South wanted to maintain Slavery?
This 1846–1848 war resulted in the U.S. gaining vast territories, including present-day California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
What is the Mexican-American War?
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What is the configuration of the windows in room R24?
Did you hear the joke about the paper?
Never mind . . . .its tear-ible!
This powerful alliance of tribes in the Northeast, known for its Great Law of Peace, influenced later American democratic ideas.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
This economic system, followed by European powers, aimed to increase wealth through colonies, trade, and raw materials.
What is Mercantilism?
"All men are created equal"?
How does the Declaration of Independence open?
Executive
He was general in the Revolutionary War and later a member of the Executive Branch.
Who is George Washington?
This term describes the period after the Civil War when the South was rebuilt and African Americans gained civil rights.
What is Reconstruction?
Chisholm, Bozeman, Mormon, and Santa Fe?
What are some of the names of the trails people took to "head west"?
B-B-Q Pork
What is the theme of the puzzle being worked on in Mr., V's class?
What was even MORE useful that the 1st telephone?
The 2nd telephone.
Founded in 1607, this was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
3 regions of original colonies
New England, Middle and Southern Colonies
"We the People . . . "
How does the Constitution Open?
BONUS: What is this part of the Copnstitution called?
"The People"
What, according to the Constitution, is the United Staes run by?
These groups of colonists remained loyal to Britain during the Revolutionary War and often fought against the Patriots.
Who are the Loyalists?
Issued by Lincoln in 1863, this order declared enslaved people in Confederate states to be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This 1849 mass movement of people heading west is attributed to creating the City of San Francisco.
What is the California Gold Rush?
BONUS: What is the name of the establishment where gold was 1st discovered?
Yoshi, Stormy, Arrow, Merced, and Bailey
The names of Mr. V's, Ms. Amy's, and Ms. Mereen's pets.
What do you call a Frenchman who has been attacked by a cat?
Claude.
This Portuguese explorer’s crew became the first to circumnavigate the globe, even though he died in the Philippines.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This group of colonies, including Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire, were largely focused on small farms and trade rather than cash crops.
What are the New England Colonies?
This group of people supported a strong national government and creating a new Constitution
Federalist
The term of a Supreme Court Justice
Life
This was signed in 1783 and officially ended the American Revolution.
What was the Treaty of Paris?
The main economic advantage the North held over the South during the war, allowing it to produce weapons, materials, and supplies.
What is Industry OR Industrialization?
This law, passed in 1862, allowed settlers to claim 160 acres of public land if they farmed it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
Guy Town, My Furry Valentine, Cafateria Girls, and Re-New Years Eve
What are episodes of "Big Mouth"?
Why don't kids remember their past birthday parties?
They are too focused on the present.