Native Americans
These were the first people to live in North America.
Who are Native Americans (Indigenous Peoples)?
This explorer is credited with reaching the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Colonists protested British taxes by saying, "No taxation without ________."
What is representation?
The Constitution is the supreme ________ of the land.
What is law?
The purchase that doubled the size of the United States in 1803 was called this.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This animal provided food, clothing, and shelter for many Plains tribes.
What is the buffalo (bison)?
European countries were motivated by the Three G's which means__.
What is God, Gold & Glory?
This event involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
These explorers were sent by President Jefferson to map the Louisiana Territory.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
This confederacy united several Native nations in present-day New York.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
The first permanent English settlement in North America was called this.
What is Jamestown?
The war for American independence began at these two Massachusetts towns.
What are Lexington and Concord?
The Constitution created how many branches of government?
What are three branches?
The belief that Americans should expand across the continent was called this
What is Manifest Destiny?
Native American groups often adapted their lifestyles to this.
What is their environment?
This document was signed aboard a ship in 1620 and is an early example of self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This document declared the colonies independent from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This branch makes laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
The forced removal of the Cherokee people became known as this.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This famous Shoshone woman served as an interpreter and cultural ambassador for Lewis & Clark.
Who is Sacagawea?
This economic system involved the exchange of goods, people, plants, and diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This decisive American victory convinced France to support the colonists.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
his principle prevents any one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
This trail was used by thousands of settlers traveling west to Oregon in the 1840s.
What is the Oregon Trail?