Native American
Sitting Bull (c. 1831-1890) was a Teton Dakota Native American chief who united the Sioux tribes of the American Great Plains against the white settlers taking their tribal land.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
The word “slave” comes from
The word “slave” comes from the Slavic people of eastern Europe who were conquered so often that their name became synonymous with servitude.
When did the Civil War start?
The Civil War started in 1861
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Harriet Tubman was enslaved, escaped, and helped others gain their freedom as a “conductor" of the Underground Railroad. Tubman also served as a scout, spy, guerrilla soldier, and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War.
Native American had to live in special places called___
Reservations
Was Thomas Jefferson the only man who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
There were five men.
Who was the indentured servant?
Indentured Servant: Someone who willingly works for free to pay off debts or a passage to the New World.
Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What was the Underground Railroad?
The Underground Railroad was A network of abolitionists and safe houses arranged to help slaves escape to free territories. ... The border states were important to the North during the Civil War because they were slave states that could have joined the Confederacy.
The Sioux were also known as :
Lakota
Who was the King of England during the time of War of Independence?
The first African slaves arrived to
The first African slaves arrived in America in a Portuguese ship to Jamestown in 1619.
After the Civil War, white southerners were angry and they joined a group called....
Ku Klux Klan, groups of men who dressed in white, covered their faces, and wen out to beat and murder black people.
Who was Rosa Parks?
Rosa Parks woman who refused to give her seat on a bus to a white man.
The Native Americans hunted the buffalos and used them for......
Food, clothes, houses, knives and other things.
In what year the USA bought Florida to Spain
1819
Explain " Middle Passage"
The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade
Abraham Lincoln was shot on
April 14th, 1865 five days after the end of the Civil War.
In what year 200,000 people met in Washington to hear Martih Luther King speak about the need for black people to be equal with white people.
1963
The Navajo was used by the soldiers to send secret radio messages that the enemy could no understand.
Which state was the last to join ?
Hawaii in 1959
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa, forced into slavery in the American colonies and exploited to work as indentured servants and labor in the production of crops such
cotton and tobacco
Abraham Lincoln was born...
In Kentucky
In which year Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize?
1964