Terms and Definitions
The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group
What is culture?
What crop did Native Americans share share with and introduce to settlers?
What is corn?
This part of the US government passes laws and collects taxes.
What is Congress?
This woman sewed the first US Flag.
Who was Betsy Ross?
First president of the US.
Who was George Washington?
An agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions
What is a compromise?
Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain.
What is a natural resource?
What are Supreme Court Justices?
"The Angel of the Battlefield"
Who was Clara Barton?
The 16th US President.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
A person who purchases goods and services for personal use.
What is a consumer?
An agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico.
What was the Gadsden Land Purchase?
Branch that enforces the laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
Helped advance women's right to vote.
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
This president freed the slaves when he accepted the surrender of Robert E. Lee.
Who was President Abraham Lincoln?
The lowest wage permitted by law or by a special agreement in an effort to ensure being paid a certain amount for work.
What is minimum wage?
The purchase of imperial rights to the western half of the Mississippi River basin from France by the United States in 1803.
What was the Louisiana Land Purchase?
Branch that makes the laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
Led the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
President who also led the Rough Riders.
The amount of a commodity, product, or service available and the desire of buyers for it, considered as factors regulating its price.
Consisted of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
What were the 13 Original Colonies?
Branch that evaluates laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
Made efforts for equality and integration by sitting in the front of the bus.
Who was Rosa Parks?
President during WWI who helped create the League of Nations in an effort to work together to prevent another war.
Who was President Woodrow Wilson?