Vocabulary
This word means making something bigger or growing a place by adding more land or people.
What is EXPANSION?
This type of community has lots of tall buildings, cars, and people close together.
What is an urban community?
This explorer helped American settlers move west by creating the Wilderness Trail through the Cumberland Gap.
Who is Daniel Boone?
In what year was the first permanent English settlement, Jamestown, founded?
When is 1607?
This Founding Father was the first president of the United States and helped lead the country during the American Revolution.
Who is George Washington?
This term is used for leaders who helped start and build the United States a long time ago.
Who are THE FOUNDING FATHERS?
This type of community is in the countryside with farms and fewer people.
What is a rural community?
This person designed the layout for Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.
Who is Pierre Charles L’Enfant?
In what year did Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence?
When is 1776?
This Founding Father wrote the Declaration of Independence and became the third president.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This word means a place where people live, work, and help each other.
What is a community?
This type of community is between urban and rural. It has houses, stores, and schools.
What is a suburban community?
This African American scientist and inventor helped plan Washington, D.C., and made an almanac.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
This is the year the U.S. Constitution was written.
When is 1787?
This Founding Father helped the colonies work together and also invented things like bifocal glasses and a lightning rod.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This word means the way people or things move from one place to another.
What is transportation?
People in a community work together to solve problems and help each other. What is this called?
What is cooperation?
This founding father invented things like bifocals and started the first public library.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
In what year did the United States buy a large amount of land in the Louisiana Purchase?
When is 1803?
This Founding Father helped write the Declaration of Independence and became the second president of the United States.
Who is John Adams?
This word means the group of people who make laws and help lead a community, state, or country.
What is government?
Name one way a rural community is different from an urban community.
What is fewer people, more open space, or more farms?
These leaders helped create the United States and wrote important papers like the Constitution.
Who are the Founding Fathers?
This is around the time Daniel Boone helped blaze the Wilderness Trail through the Cumberland Gap.
When is 1805?
This Founding Father helped write the Constitution and later became the fourth president of the United States.
Who is James Madison?