Native History
This Native American Tribe originates from the New Jersey region.
Lenape (Leni Lenape)
This was the first successful British colonial settlement.
Jamestown
The killing of these people increased tensions between colonists and British troops.
Boston Massacre
What was the name that is attributed to American westward expansion?
Manifest Desitney
What was the main reason for the start of the Civil War?
Southern States wanted to maintain slavery and were afraid Abraham Lincoln would abolish it.
These Native Americans lived in the Caribbean and were the first to be contacted by Christopher Columbus.
The Taino people
This city was originally a trading post for French fur trappers. (2 correct answers)
Quebec City and/or Montreal
These two battles started the American Revolution and was known as "The Shot Heard Around The World"
Lexington and Concord
The Indian Exclusion Act forced Cherokee and other Native American tribes to relocated westward. Which deadly event did it cause?
The Trail of Tears
The first battle to start the Civil War.
Battle of Fort Sumter
The massive transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, and diseases between the Americas (the New World) and Afro-Eurasia (the Old World)
Columbian Exchange
Why did so many people leave England to settle North American colonies such as Plymouth, Boston, or Salem?
To escape religious persecution
This French nobleman traveled from France to help fight the British with the Continental Army.
Marquis de Lafayette
This revolution was not violent but rather fostered the creation of new vehicles, inventions and rapid urbanization.
Industrial Revolution
Which Amendment freed enslaved people in the US?
The 13th Amendment
This Native American chief was able to unite native tribes and create the Shawnee Confederacy around North America. His Confederacy was destroyed after his death during the War of 1812.
Tecumseh
What was the main product from the Caribbean colonies?
George Washington recognized early on that he could not beat the British head on. How did he switch strategies to win the war?
A war of attrition, meaning, wearing out the British until they no longer wanted to fight.
This territory was purchased from the Russian Empire for 2 cents per acre.
Alaska
This battle stopped the Confederacy's chances of taking the North.
Gettysburg.
This was the final large scale battle between Native American tribes against the US Government. Colonel Custard was killed in an ambush against an alliance of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho.
Battle of Little Big Horn (Battle of Greasy Grass)
This economic system forced colonies to only trade with their mother countries and collected bullion (silver and gold) for them.
Mercantilism
The US government between 1776 and 1789 did not have our current Constitution, instead it operated under which failed document?
The Articles of Confederation
Discovery of which material caused massive migrations to the west coast in the 1850s?
Gold
This military doctrine would blockade the South and stop them from receiving resources from the sea and the Mississippi River. Its goal was to "choke" them out.
The Anaconda Plan