Early America
People who lived in North America before Europeans arrived.
Who are Native Americans?
Country the colonies fought for independence.
What is Great Britain?
The U.S. plan of government.
What is the Constitution?
The idea that the U.S. should move west.
What is Manifest Destiny?
War between the North and South.
What is the Civil War?
Explorer who reached the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Event where colonists dumped tea into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The first 10 amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Land bought from France in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
President during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Country that sent Columbus on his voyage.
What is Spain?
Document that declared independence in 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Branch of government led by the president.
What is the executive branch?
Law that forced Native Americans to move west.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Speech Lincoln gave about equality and freedom.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Leader of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
Number of branches in the U.S. government.
What is three?
Name for the journey Native Americans were forced to take.
What was the Trail of Tears?
Law that freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The group that came to America for religious freedom on the Mayflower?
Who are the Pilgrims?
War fought between the colonies and Britain.
What is the American Revolution?
Group of people who make laws.
What is Congress?
Path settlers used to travel west.
What was the Oregon Trail?
This amendment ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?