Pre-Contact Americas
This ancient empire shared resources communally in the tops of the Andes mountains
Who are the Inca?
This English settlement was notable for introducing both tobacco and slavery to the future United States.
What is Jamestown?
This Virginian left his post in the British army to command colonial forces in the Revolution.
Who is George Washington?
This US President removed the Cherokee tribe from their homelands over the Supreme Court's objections.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The Mississippi Declaration of Secession state that "our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of" what?
What is slavery?
These ancient Central Americans lived in the Yucatan jungles over 2000 years ago
Who are the Maya?
This English colony in modern day North Carolina famously "disappeared," despite leaving a note on a tree stump.
What is Roanoke?
This country contributed it's navy to the revolutionary cause, mostly to spite its long time nemesis.
What is France?
This angelic belief led many white Americans call dibs on lands in the West.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This abolitionist was executed for his attack on a US military arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
These ancient wanderers built their own islands in the middle of a lake.
Who are the Aztec?
These Plymouth settlers wanted to follow a strict religious code of all Jesus, no fun.
Who are the Puritans?
The first amendment guarantees Americans five freedoms, including religion, the press, assembly, petition, and this.
What is freedom of speech?
This technological movement included the creation of factories, railroads, and steamboats.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This Union general went on to become the president for most of Reconstruction.
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
This city was occupied by both the ancient Mound Builders and the later Mississippian culture.
What is Cahokia?
This American state was first settled as a British prison colony, much like later Australia.
What is Georgia?
This fractional agreement settled Constitutional debates about how to count enslaved parts of the population.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
This Shoshone woman guided Lewis and Clark on their expedition, despite being only 16 and pregnant.
Who is Sacagawea?
This formerly enslaved man helped convince Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Midvale Middle School sits on the ancestral lands of this tribe.
Who are the Shoshone?
This Spanish colony was the first permanent European settlement in what became the USA.
What is St. Augustine?
This Massachusetts woman wrote to her husband at the Constitutional Convention asking him to "remember the ladies."
Who is Abigail Adams?
This cantankerous Virginian became the first Vice President to become President on the death of his predecessor.
Who is John Tyler?
In the raid on Combahee River, she became the first woman to command a US military expedition.
Who is Harriet Tubman?