Age of Exploration
A title for the time in history when Early Explorers began searching for new trade routes to Asia.
What is The Age of Exploration?
A form of government in which the ruler is a king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
The war that forced the British deeply into debt.
What is the French and Indian War?
The branch of government that interprets the laws.
A time when there was a major struggle between democratic nations and communist nations, specifically the United States and the Soviet Union.
What is The Cold War?
Early Explorers used these, planting them into the ground, in order to claim land for their country.
What are flags?
The first permanent English colony in America.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
The protest where a group of Massachusetts colonists, disguised as Mohawk Indians, boarded three British tea ships to dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
The group of advisors that help the president.
A social movement that led to women's right to vote in the United States.
What is the Progressive movement?
An area, or community, where people are ruled by another country.
What is a colony?
The nickname given to Roanoke, where all the settlers disappeared.
What is "The Lost Colony"?
Law that made colonists provide British soldiers with food, transportation, and housing.
What is the Quartering Act?
The agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as the first, and weaker, Constitution.
What are The Articles of Confederation?
A time of great economic struggle, when large numbers of workers in the United States lost their jobs and their homes.
What is The Great Depression?
The European Explorer's name for the Americas, during the Age of Exploration.
What is "The New World"?
Someone who agreed to work for an employer for a set period of time in order to pay off a debt.
Who is an indentured servant?
The book, or pamphlet, that persuaded American colonists to want independence from Great Britain.
Hint: written by Thomas Paine
What is Common Sense?
A change to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
An invention that first developed during the Information Age.
What is a computer?
The name for a Spanish explorer who came to the Americas in the 1500s.
Who is a conquistador?
The government building where lawmakers meet.
What is The Capitol?
A Founding Father who argued for equality among all men, but still owned slaves.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution, outlines the freedoms of American citizens.
A global conflict fought between 1939 through 1945.