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The slogan that the American colonist used towards the British parliment about unfair taxes.
What is "No taxation without representation?"
100
A group of people living together with the same government and culture.
What is a civilization?
100
The name generally given to the Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is Congress?
100
Two famous explorers who crossed the Mississippi River to explore the Lousiana Purchase.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
100
A huge thick sheet of slowly moving ice.
What is a glacier?
200
When the angry colonist threw all of the tea into the sea.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
A way that the Indians used to supply water to crops.
What is irrigation?
200
The branch of government that includes the President.
What is the Executive Branch?
200
The Constitution created these 3 branches of government.
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches?
200
The first settlement in the colonies.
What is Jamestown?
300
The man who warned the colonists by saying, "The British are coming!"
Who is Paul Revere?
300
A form of trade that the Indians used instead of using money.
What is the barter system?
300
The branch of government that interprets the Constitution and enforces laws.
What is the legislative branch?
300
The document that Thomas Jefferson created to announce the freedom of America from British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
A woman known for helping slaves escape to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
400
A war that eventually led to the 1765 Stamp Act.
What is the French and Indian War?
400
The first explorer to encounter the Native Americans in America.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
400
The way that the United States divides power among the branches of government.
What is checks and balances?
400
The first man who signed the Declaration of Independence in large letters.
Who is John Hancock?
400
The quote about the beginning of the American Revolution at the Battle of Concord.
What is "the shot heard 'round the world?"
500
The meeting that the American colonists held in Philadelphia to discuss the rules of the British.
What is the First Continental Congress?
500
The capital city of the Aztec culture.
What is Tenochtitlan?
500
The system in which the power is divided among the states and the nation.
What is the federal system?
500
The first 10 ammendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
500
The part of a map that shows the real distance by measuring its distance on a map.
What is a map scale?
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