The First Communities
Building Communities
Fighting for Freedom
Growth and Change
100
A set of words used to communicate.
What is language?
100
A person who goes to find out about a place.
Who is an explorer?
100
Money that people pay to the government.
What is tax?
100
Land that belongs to a government but is not a state or a colony.
What is a territory?
200
A home or other building that protects people from the weather.
What is a shelter?
200
A new community.
What is a settlement?
200
The group that ruled the 13 colonies throughout most of the 1700s.
What is Britain or England?
200
When people of one country fight each other.
What is a civil war?
300
A history learned through spoken stories.
What is oral history?
300
The group that conflicted with the English at the Jamestown settlement.
Who are Native Americans?
300
First president of the United States.
Who is General George Washington?
300
The document that freed the slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
The very first people to live in North America.
Who are Native Americans?
400
The oldest lasting European settlement in what is now the United States.
What is St. Augustine, Florida?
400
The document that set laws guiding our government.
What is the Constitution of the United States?
400
Doubled the size of the country.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
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