Vocabulary
Original Colonies
Important People
Documents
Events
100
What do we call a place that people build to protect themselves from weather?
What is shelter
100
The colonists wanted freedom from who?
What is England
100
We were the first people to live in North America
Who are the Native Americans
100
The role of this document is to be a set of laws that guides our government
What is the Constitution of the United States
100
The colonists' response to the taxes on tea
What is the Boston Tea Party
200
History that is spread through spoken stories and is very common among the Native Americans
What is oral history
200
How many original colonies were there?
What is 13
200
I led the troops for America in the Revolutionary War
Who is George Washington
200
This was written to explain why the 13 colonies should be free from British power.
What is The Declaration of Independence
200
This was the fight to achieve independence from Britain
What is the Revolutionary War
300
Money that is paid to the government when buying goods and services
What is tax
300
the location of the 13 original colonies--as far as the United States go today
What is the east coast
300
I bought the Louisiana Purchase which doubled the size of the country.
Who is Thomas Jefferson
300
This proclaimed that many enslaved people in the Confederate states to be free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
300
This war began in 1861 that was between the Northern States and Southern states
What is the Civil War
400
Land that belongs to the government is called a
What is territory
400
Why was the Declaration of Independence written
What is for the 13 colonies freedom from Britain
400
Thomas Jefferson asked us to help find out what was out west and this Native American helped us to do so
Who are Lewis and Clark and Sacagawea
400
What was accepted on July 4, 1776?
What is the Declaration of Independence
400
We won the Revolutionary War
Who are the Americans
500
When people fight for a change in government, this is called a
What is revolution
500
Name for me the most southern state in the 13 original colonies
What is Georgia
500
These two groups were in conflict at the Jamestown settlement.
Who are the English and Native Americans
500
What document begins with "We the people.."
What is the Constitution of the United States of America
500
Civil War: Northern states were called? Southern states?
What is the Union and the Confederates
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