Map Skills
An imaginary line that runs around the widest part of the Earth. It separates the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
Christopher Columbus sailed under the flag of this country.
What is Spain?
The first permanent English settlement in North America.
What was Jamestown?
Colonists in Boston, angry over British taxes, provoked a group of British soldiers who then fired intot he crowd, killing 5 people, including black sailor Crispus Attucks.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The 3 branches of the U.S. Government.
What are executive, legislative, and judicial?
An area of over 500 million square acres of land the U.S. purchased from France in 1803 for $5 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
A person who is in favor of ending slavery and/or the political movement surrounding the end of slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
Invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
Unanimously elected as the 1st President of the United States in 1789.
Who is George Washington?
American colonists who supported the fight for independence from England.
Who are Patriots?
To refuse to buy certain goods or services.
What is boycott?
The imaginary line that divides the Earth into the eastern and western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
A disease that killed up to 90% of the indigenous population after it was brought to North America from Europe.
What is smallpox?
The "lost colony" that remains an American mystery to this day.
What is Roanoke?
A series of acts, including the close of Boston Harbor, passed by British parliament to punish the colonists after the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts or Coercive Acts?
The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as freedom of speech, assembly, and worship.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The belief that Americans had a God-given right to move westward across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The first "battle" of the Civil War that occurred off the coast of South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
The author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The 16th President who issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The King who went blind and crazy after losing the American Revolution.
Who is King George III?
A device that used electrical wires to send messages across long distances.
What is the telegraph?
A map tool that shows the four cardinal directions and sometimes shows intermediate directions.
What is the compass rose?
A Portuguese Prince who started the first school of navigation.
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?
A series of religious revivals that swept through the American colonies in the 18th century, particularly during the 1730s and 1740s.
What is the Great Awakening?
An edict issued by King George III which forbade colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains as a means of avoiding costly clashes with Native Americans.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
A system that allows each branch of a government to amend, override, or veto acts of another branch so as to prevent any one branch from exerting too much power or power beyond its authority.
What are checks and balances?
The deadly route Native Americans followed when they were forced by the U.S. government to relocate in the 1830s.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This book, written by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe played an important role in alerting Northerners to the plight of slaves in the South.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The "Father of the Constitution."
Who is James Madison?
A Founding Father of the United States, who played a key role in the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Treaty of Paris, and made significant contributions to science but was never president.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
A mission in San Antonio, Texas that was the site of a siege and massacre in 1836 by Mexican forces against a handful of American rebels.
What is the Alamo?
A war fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846-1848 over the annexation of Texas.
What is the Mexican-American War?
The four main directions or points of the compass: north, east, south and west.
What are cardinal directions?
The system of transferring animals, people, and diseases across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England and came to America to worship freely.
Who are the Puritans?
The Patriots' battle cry during the American Revolution.
What is "No taxation without representation!"?
A government in which citizens are represented by elected officials and laws are made by the voting majority.
What is democracy?
A machine that easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.
What is the cotton gin?
The first southern state to secede after Lincoln's election.
What is South Carolina?
Patriot and silversmith in Boston, known for his engraving of the Boston Massacre and his midnight ride to warn colonists of the coming British attack at Lexington and Concord.
Who is Paul Revere?
Escaped slave and abolitionist and most photographed person of the 19th century, wrote his autobiography and traveled the world, teaching about the evils of slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This animal was hunted almost to extinction in the American West during Westward expansion.
What are buffalo or bison?
A secret group of Patriots, led by Sam Adams, that used petitions, propaganda, and sometimes violence to push back against the British.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
Imaginary lines that east and west and measure in degrees north and south of the equator.
What are latitude lines?
A Spanish explorer who set sail to discover and conquer new lands in the name of Spain.
What is a conquistador?
A legal document issued by the king that gave a person or company the right to establish a colony in North America.
What is a charter?
The piece of land that the French and Indian War was fought over.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
A set of rules that guide how a country, state, or other political organization works.
What is a constitution?
A rapid influx of fortune seekers into California territory in 1848.
What is the California Gold Rush?
Part of the Compromise of 1850, this act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Abolitionist and conductor on the Underground Railroad known as "Moses."
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Signer of the Declaration of Independence who signed extra large so King George could see his name without putting on his glasses.
Who is John Hancock?
Colonists who volunteered as soldiers before the Continental Army was formed.
Who are minutemen?
A 2,000 mile route starting in Missouri and ending in the west that was used during U.S. westward migrations from 1840-1860.
What is the Oregon Trail?
The names of the Earth's five oceans.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Southern, and Indian?
The three main countries competing for power during the Age of Exploration.
What are England, France and Spain?
Three cash crops grown in the colonial South.
What are tobacco, cotton, sugar and indigo?
The first battle of the American Revolution, where colonist fought back against the British attempting to raid a colonial armory.
What is Lexington & Concord?
America's first failed attempt at a government right after the American Revolution.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The practice of forcing men into military service against their will. Before the War of 1812, the British were doing this to American sailors.
What is impressment?
The growing tensions and divisions between the industrial Northern and agricultural Southern states in which citizens were more loyal to their states than to the country.
What is sectionalism?
The man who declared, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Who was Patrick Henry?
The head Generals of the Union and Confederate armies.
Who are U.S. Grant and Robert E. Lee?
A person who received free passage to America if they signed a contract to work without pay for a certain amount of time.
What is an indentured servant?
Where did the Salem Witch Trials take place?
Where is Massachusetts?
The names of the seven continents.
What are Africa, Asia, Antarctica, North America, South America, Europe, and Australia?
What is the Silk Road?
The names of the 13 British colonies in North America.
What are Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, Virginia, Rhode Island, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
The twelve "domino" events leading to the American Revolutionary War.
What are:
The French & Indian War, Proclamation of 1763, Unfair taxes, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, First Continental Congress, Paul Revere's Ride, Lexington & Concord, Second Continental Congress, Battle of Bunker Hill, Declaration of Independence
A group led by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay who believed in the necessity of a strong, central government for the United States.
Who are the Federalists?
James Watt's alternative power source to water was arguably the greatest technical achievement of the Industrial Revolution.
What is the steam engine?
Lincoln's TWO reasons for fighting the Civil War in the order he revealed them to the people.
What are 1-Preserving the Union, and 2-Ending Slavery
The actor who murdered Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
A slave who sued his owner for his freedom, took the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and lost.
Who is Dred Scott?
Peace agreement that officially ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
A military conflict between the United States and Great Britain that stemmed from disputes over trade, maritime rights, and territorial expansion, including the British practice of impressing American sailors into the Royal Navy.
What is the War of 1812?