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Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Surprise
100
A protected area of water where ships can dock safely.
What is a harbor?
100
A loosely united group of governments working together.
What is a confederation?
100
An official statement.
What is a declaration?
100
A body of water that boats can use.
What is a waterway?
100
This woman wrote America the Beautiful.
Who is Katherine Lee Bates?
200
A huge, slow-moving mass of ice.
What is a glacier?
200
A settlement that is ruled by a faraway government.
What is a colony?
200
A major, sudden change in government or in people's lives.
What is a revolution?
200
A waterway dug across land.
What is a canal?
200
1776.
What is the year the Declaration of Independence was signed?
300
A snowstorm driven by strong, freezing winds.
What is a blizzard?
300
A person who lives in a colony.
What is a colonist?
300
The leader of the American Army and the first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
300
A period in which new sources of power were used to replace machines powered by hand, allowing people to make more goods faster.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
300
The first people living in the United States of America.
Who are Native Americans?
400
What is a large, open pit cut into the ground, from which stone is mined.
What is a quarry?
400
A trading center where ships are loaded and unloaded.
What is a port?
400
A 13 year old boy who delivered messages between troops and grew up to become a president.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
A factory in which fibers such as cotton and wool are woven into textiles, or cloth?
What is a textile mill?
400
The song that Britain sang to make fun of the Americans at first.
What is Yankee Doodle?
500
A mountain range in the Northeast.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
500
Freedom.
What is independence?
500
The country that ruled the American colonists.
What is Britain?
500
The nation's largest immigration center in New York City.
What is Ellis Island?
500
A huge urban region formed when two or more metropolitan areas grow together.
What is a megalopolis?
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