Communities and Europeans
I found gold and the first to discover the Mississippi River, my country of Spain claimed land in the Southeast region.
Hernando de Soto
Henry Hudson had to find a new route to the Artic region because of weather, he found what harbor?
New York Harbor
How many original colonies were settled during the colonial time
13
newspapers, tea, sugar
What does transcontinental mean?
across the continent
In the early 1900s, the United states was known as this... the blending of people, cultures, customs and traditions together.
The Melting Pot
Christopher Columbus
Pierre Laclede founded a fur trading post that later became what major mid-west city
St. Louis
Name the regions the 13 colonies are broken into:
New England, Middle, Southern
Colonists protested the tax set by the King of England by dumping product into the Boston Harbor. What was the name of this protest?
The Boston Tea Party
People who are from another land that settle in a new place
immigrants
People who paid explorers to travel to new lands
The Spanish built 21 of these along the California coast. Each include a church, farm, houses, and a school
What southerners called large farms
plantations
In 1776, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson worked together with the colonists to write this document declaring our freedom from England.
The Declaration of Independence
This expanded the boarders of the United States in 1803
the Louisiana Purchase
The place of rich soil, where 2 rivers joined together and made it easy for trade... it was the greatest city in the middle of the land.
Cahokia
First permanent, English settlement created with the help of the Powhatan
Jamestown, Virginia
Puritan settlers lived here, lots of fishing and ship building took place in this region
In 1787, the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia to draft up a set of laws that tells how the government will work. What is this document called?
the Constitution
European settlers that came over to explore the land west of the Mississippi
Lewis and Clark
Created to keep the peace among the Woodland tribes
Iroquois Confederacy
Ponce De Leon first landed here in 1513 and claimed it for Spain. The first and oldest settlement in the United States
St. Augustine, Florida
The region where libraries were developed and many diverse settlers landed
Middle colonies
Who was the king that sent soldiers over to fight the colonists in 1776 to keep control over their lifestyles?
King George
Lincoln signed this document in 1862 that gave people 160 acres in hopes of farming and improving it for 5 years
the Homestead Act