The Thirteen Colonies
This colony, founded by William Penn, was known for religious freedom.
Pennsylvania
What person warned that the British were coming?
Paul Revere
She helped lead people to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
This Native American group lived in the southeastern United States.
Cherokee
This 1803 land deal doubled the size of the United States.
Louisiana Purchase
These colonies were divided into New England, Middle, and this third region.
Southern Colonies
This battle was the turning point of the war.
Saratoga
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln
Many Native American groups lived in this large grassland region in the middle of the country.
Plains
This famous trail helped many settlers move west in the 1800s.
Oregon Trail
Jamestown, founded in 1607, was located in this colony.
Virginia
George Washington and his soldiers spent a hard winter at this camp.
Valley Forge
What movement worked to end slavery in the United States?
abolition
What was the cone-shaped house?
Teepee
This event brought many people to California in 1849 hoping to get rich.
Gold Rush
The Pilgrims founded Plymouth Colony in this New England colony.
Massachusetts
The colonists defeated the British at this 1781 battle, effectively ending the war.
Yorktown
This system helped slaves escape to freedom.
Underground railroad
Name one native tribe?
Pueblo Cherokee Sioux Iroquois Inuit Powhatan.
This belief said the United States was meant to expand across the continent.
Manifest Destiny
How many original colonies were there?
13 colonies
What treaty ended the war?
treaty of paris
This woman was arrested for trying to vote.
Susan B Anthony
The forced journey in 1838 moved thousands of Cherokee people west to present-day Oklahoma.
The Trail of Tears?
This invention increased the need for slaves by making cotton easier to produce.
Cotton Gin