Early Settlers
American Revolution
Civil War
Industrialization
20th century
100
The people who were here before the European settlers.
Who are Native Americans?
100
This document was signed and given to England to request the freedom of the Colonists.
What is the Declaration of Independence.
100
Women and immigrants instead of slaves provided labor for this area
What is the North?
100
a period of rapid growth for industries
What is Industrialization?
100
the need for more natural resources, more markets, and a desire for an increase in power caused this
What is imperialism?
200
The English settlers first established themselves here.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
200
The leader of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
200
This area's economy was based largely in agriculture that required a lot of labor.
What is the South?
200
The addition of western territories allowed the US to gain plentiful ______
What is natural resources?
200
The policy by which a stronger nation extends economic, military, and/or political control over a weaker nation or region.
What is imperialism?
300
The reason England started taxing the Colonists so much.
What is to pay for war debt from the French and Indian War?
300
Taxation without representation and lack of local control
What is the cause of the American Revolution?
300
To balance power between the North and the South, the government did this
What is add states in pairs-one slave and one free state.
300
Most of the new factories that were built in the mid-late 1800's were built in or near these because they needed people to run the factories
What is large cities?
300
Because of this, the U.S. acquired the Spanish colonies of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam.
What is the Spanish-American War?
400
The Colonists were tired of being taxed so extremely, and so they wrote this.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
Went from 1776 until 1781 at which point the British surrendered at Yorktown.
What is the American Revolutionary War.
400
Because of this, most of the slave states seceded from the United States.
What are Abraham Lincoln's policies against slavery?
400
U.S. factory jobs drew many of these to American cities and there was a sharp rise in the numbers
What is immigrants?
400
The event in which the Allies fought against the Central Powers. U.S. involvement happened due to the Germany's sinking of American ships.
What is WWI?
500
This document was the first attempt at forming an American government, but it formed a weak national government and so was re-done later.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
500
The document that replaced the Articles of Confederation and established a centralized government.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
500
The south set up their own government called this
What is the Confederacy?
500
Workers who pledged to work together for better and safer working conditions
What is a union?
500
an example is the Great Depression
What is a serious economic downturn?
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