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Vocabulary
Early Native Americans
American Revolution
Westward Expansion
Slavery and Suffrage
100

a legal arrangement with regard to agricultural land in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.

Sharecropping

100
Ethnic group of people who inhabit Arctic regions of Canada, Denmark, Russia and the United States.
Who are the Inuit people?
100
Secret organization of American patriots which originated in the pre-independence British North American colonies.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
100
The largest land acquisition from France during Thomas Jefferson’s presidency (1803), doubling the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
A person who is strongly opposed to slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
200

A law that created segregation and it took 100 years for it to be abolished.

Jim Crow Laws

200
A group of Native American's (Indians) from Georgia and Florida tribes--Creeks, Miccosukees, Hitchitis, and Oconees--joined together for protection in the 1700's.
Who are the Seminole people?
200
For the role he played in winning and securing American independence, he is generally recognized as one of the most important figures in all of U.S. history. He also is called Father of his Country.
Who is George Washington?
200
The expedition from 1804-1806 that gathered information about the land gained by the Louisiana Purchase and sought an overland route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
200
System of sheltering and aiding runaway slaves on their northward journey to free territory in the decades before the Civil War.
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
Sometimes called "Farmers on the Plains", lived along the Platte River in what is now Nebraska.
Who are the Pawnee people?
300
Document proclaiming the independence of the 13 British colonies in America, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
The discovery at Sutter's Mill increased the population of 14,000 in 1848 to almost 100,000 in 1850. It was also famous for encouraging the construction of wagons, roads and railroads going west.
What is the California Gold Rush?
300
Escaped slave, one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad; risked her life on 19 journeys back to Maryland to help more than 300 slaves to freedom; called “Black Moses.”
Who is Harriet Tubman?
400
King Henry VII granted this explorer and his three sons the right to seek islands and countries towards the west, east, and north, with five ships under the English flag.
Who is John Cabot?
400
Name means good, peaceful, or wise; group of Southwestern people.
Who are the Hopi people?
400
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. Known for "The Shot Heard Around The World."
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
400
Products could be moved more cheaply and much faster by this new method of land transportation in the 1830's.
What is the steam locomotive?
400
A leader in the campaign for votes for women. In 1848 she organized America's first woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
500
French navigator who explored the east coast of Canada and the St. Lawrence River and was responsible for naming Canada.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
500
Tribe of Native Americans who live in the Pacific Northwest region (Columbia River Plateau) of the United States.
Who are the Nez Perce people?
500
Slogan in the period 1763-1775 that summarized a primary grievance of the American colonists in the Thirteen colonies.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
500
The fort in San Antonio, Texas, which was the site of a Mexican victory over supporters of Texan independence in 1836.
What is the Alamo?
500
Wrote “Ain’t I a Woman?” in 1851 to the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention.
Who is Sojourner Truth?