What name was given to the south after they seceded from the United States?
The Confederate States of America
100
What was the main natural resource for the Plains Native American cultural group?
buffalo
100
Which Viking explorer was the first to reach North America but was not given credit for doing so because of the Vikings' poor relationship with the Europeans.
Leif Ericsson
100
What are the three branches of government?
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
100
What transaction did Thomas Jefferson make with Napoleon because he wanted to buy the port at New Orleans?
The Louisiana Purchase
200
Which war was fought between the French and English over the fertile land of the Ohio River Valley?
The French and Indian War
200
If you lived in the Eastern Woodlands cultural region, what type of house might you have lived in?
longhouse or wigwam
200
Which Spanish explorer was the first to sail around the world?
Ferdinand Magellan
200
What is the system called where each branch of government does not have total power over the other?
Checks and balances
200
Which pioneer traveled across the Appalachian Mountains through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky?
Daniel Boone
300
Which war was fought because the colonists were not happy about being taxed by King George III?
The American Revolution
300
What Native American cultural group were primarily hunters and gatherers?
Plains or Southwest Desert
300
Which famous Spanish conquistador explored the southeastern United States?
Hernando de Soto
300
Which branch of government is headed by the President, whose job is to make sure laws are being enforced?
The Executive Branch
300
What was the trail called that people followed to escape religious persecution? They went west to set up their own religious communities.
The Mormon Trail
400
What did King George III do as a result of the colonists throwing the tea into the harbor at the Boston Tea Party?
He passed The Intolerable Acts
400
Which Native American group were called cliff dwellers because they made their homes of clay by digging out the side of a cliff?
Southwest Desert
400
Where would you have settled if you came to the eastern United States along the Atlantic Ocean in search of religious freedom?
New England
400
Who was the leader of the Democratic Republican party who believed that the common people and farmers should be in charge of the government?
Thomas Jefferson
400
Which trail would you have traveled to the west on if you were a trader?
The Santa Fe trail
500
Where did the two generals meet which concluded with Robert E. Lee surrendering?
The Appomattox Courthouse
500
Which three Native American cultural groups had a multitude of trees which was a primary natural resource for them?
The Pacific Northwest, Eastern Woodlands, and Southeast
500
Which French explorer traveled down the Mississippi River establishing trade with the Native Americans? He named the area of Louisiana.
Robert LaSalle
500
Which section of Congress allows 2 representatives from each state to vote regardless of the population of the state?
The Senate
500
Which two Native American cultural groups would Lewis and Clark have encountered on their expedition?