American Revolution
This war between the American colonies and Great Britain resulted in American independence.
What is the American Revolution?
The Constitution divided the government into these three branches: the legislative, executive, and this one that includes judges and courts.
What is the judicial branch?
This 1803 purchase doubled the size of the United States and gave the nation control of the Mississippi River and the port of New Orleans.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The economy of the North was based on factories and industry, while the economy of the South was based mainly on this.
What is agriculture? (or What is farming?)
This period of history marked a major change when factories and machines began to replace hand labor and farming as the main way people worked.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This document, signed in 1776, declared that the American colonies were free from British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
According to the Constitution, a bill must pass through Congress and receive approval from this person before it becomes a law.
Who is the President?
These two explorers led an expedition to explore the lands gained from the Louisiana Purchase and find a water route to the Pacific Ocean.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
The South relied on this system of forced labor to work on large plantations, which the North did not practice.
What is slavery?
During the Industrial Revolution, many people moved from farms to cities to work in these large buildings where goods were made with machines.
What are factories?
This founding father was the first President of the United States and led the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Who is George Washington?
A key principle of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution is that the government must protect people's rights to these three things.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
This Native American woman from the Shoshone tribe helped Lewis and Clark by serving as a guide and interpreter during their expedition
Who is Sacagawea?
The United States can be divided into different regions that vary culturally and economically; the conflict between these two regions led to the Civil War.
What are the North and South?
During the Industrial Revolution, these machines were invented to make goods faster and in larger quantities than ever before.
What are spinning machines?
The significance of the American Revolution was that it resulted in the colonist gaining this.
What is American independence?
In a republic like the United States, the people elect representatives to govern, but in a monarchy, power is held by this one person.
What is a king or queen?
The desire to expand and settle new lands in the west is called this term, which means Americans believed they should spread across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This president led the United States during the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation to free enslaved people
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The Industrial Revolution created new jobs, but workers often faced these difficult conditions—long hours, low pay, and unsafe environments.
What are poor or dangerous working conditions?
After the American Revolution, the colonists created this document to establish how the new United States government would work.
What is the Constitution?
The Constitution describes how the federal government and these local governments share power and responsibilities.
What are state governments?
The expansion westward had a major negative impact on these groups of people, who had lived on the land long before settlers arrived.
Who are Native Americans?
This amendment to the Constitution officially abolished slavery throughout the entire United States after the Civil War.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
A negative effect of the Industrial Revolution was that children were forced to work in factories instead of doing this.
What is going to school?