Vocabulary
The Narragansett People
The Land of New Beginnings
Taking a Stand
Cities Grow and Change
100
A festival of Native Americans
What is a powwow
100
A cozy hut made of wooden poles covered with bark
What is a wigwam
100
This is the location that the first shots of the American Revolution happened
What is Lexington , Massachusetts
100
This is the name given to a reformer who believed that slavery should be erased
What is an abolitionist?
100
The buying and selling of goods
What is commerce?
200
This amendment gave the women the right to vote
What is the Nineteenth Amendment
200
Another name for a ruler
What is a sachem
200
This person was our nation's second president and provided strong leadership in writing the Declaration of Independence
Who was John Adams
200
This person published a newspaper called, The Liberator
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
200
The three largest cities in the Northeast
What is NYC, Boston, and Philadelphia
300
A meeting held for a special purpose
What is a convention?
300
A union of groups, countries, or states
What is a confederacy
300
This type of timeline shows important events that happened over a period of time
What is a vertical time line?
300
These are two famous speakers that told about their life as a slave
Who were Frederick Douglas and Sojourner Truth?
300
This city was founded at the point where three major rivers meet
What is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?
400
A settlement of people who come from one country to live in another
What is a colony
400
The state where the Narragansett lived
What is now Rhode Island
400
This person invented the telephone
Who was Alexander Graham Bell
400
This amendment was added to the constitution in 1865
What is the 13th Amendment?
400
Pittsburgh was once so famous for its steel mills it was called this
What is "Steel City?"
500
A fight to overthrow the government
What is a revolution?
500
Five Native American Groups that formed the Iroquois Confederacy in 1722
What is the Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Cayuga
500
These are the reasons people immigrated to the United States
What was for jobs, own land, find a better life, freedom
500
These are two ladies that organized the first women's rights convention in the U.S.
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
500
There are many city landmarks throughout the Northeast. Name one
What is the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, Boston's Freedom Trail, the Public Gardens, the Statue of Liberty, or the Empire State Building
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