Vocabulary
The separation of African Americans and whites
Who were Lewis and Clark? (pg. 51)
Two men that led an expedition to explore the rivers with 50 other men.
Who was opposed to the United States in the Cold War? (pg. 64)
The Soviet Union
What year was the attack on Pearl Harbor? (pg. 62)
1941
What is manufacturing? (pg. 58)
making goods by machines, usually in factories
What's an immigrant?
A person who comes to live in a new land
Which Founding Father wrote the Declaration of Independence? (pg. 46)
Thomas Jefferson
What countries founded colonies in the 1500s?
The rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union was called the ________. (pg. 64)
Cold War
Why did Americans move west in the 1840s? (pg. 52)
in search of land and gold
What was an abolitionist?
Someone who wants to abolish, or end, slavery completely.
Why did Native American groups move to reservations in the 1800s? (pg. 57)
The government set up and forced Native American groups to move to reservations.
Where did explorers come from when they came to explore North and South America?
Spain, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, and England
The terrorist group called al Qaeda took over planes and crashed them into buildings in the United States that killed thousands of people on what date? (pg. 68)
September 11, 2001
What did Thomas Jefferson buy from Napoleon in 1803? (pg. 50)
Louisiana Territory
What does it mean to secede?
to break away or formally withdraw
Historians believed the first Americans came from Asia. How did they travel to Americas? (pg. 38)
Thousands of years ago, land connected Asia and the Americas. Small groups of hunters crossed over from Asia. Others may have come by water.
Where did they meet to write the Declaration of Independence? (pg. 46)
Philadelphia
Why did communism cause tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after WWII? (pg. 64)
The Soviet Union was a communist country that wanted to expand communism in the world. The U.S. didn't want communism to spread. This disagreement caused tension between the two nations and led to wars in Korea and Vietnam.
Which New Deal program still exists today? (pg. 61)
Social Security
What is a constitution?
A plan of government
How did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. help pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964? (pg. 66)
He led nonviolent, peaceful, protests to support civil rights.
What states did the Northwest Territory become? (pg. 50)
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin
What did Brown V. Board of Education decide? (pg. 66)
The court said segregation in public schools was against the law.
Why were colonists in North America angry with Great Britain? (pg. 46)
Great Britain would not let colonists form a new government.