Early America
& Exploration
& Exploration
This group of people lived in North America long before European explorers arrived.
Who are Native Americans.
This document signed in 1776 declared independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This document became the supreme law of the United States in 1789.
What is the Constitution?
This belief said the U.S. was destined to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This war was fought between the North and South from 1861-1865.
What is the Civil War?
This explorer is credited with reaching the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus.
What is the Stamp Act?
These first ten amendments protect individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This law forced Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This Union president issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This system involved trading goods like furs between Native Americans and European settlers.
What is the fur trade.
This event involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
What is federalism?
This reform movement aimed to end slavery.
What is abolition?
This battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This early English colony mysteriously disappeared, earning the nickname “Lost Colony.”
What is Roanoke.
This group protested British taxes and organized resistance.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This compromise counted enslaved people as 3/5 of a person for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This woman helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
These amendments ended slavery, granted citizenship, and protected voting rights.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This Spanish system forced Native Americans to work in exchange for protection and conversion.
What is the encomienda system?
This 1754-1763 war between Britain and France led to increased taxes on colonists.
What is the French and Indian War?
This 1803 event doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This law required citizens to return escaped enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This document, written in 1863, redefined the purpose of the Civil War and emphasized equality.
What is the Gettysburg Address?