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Geography
European Explorers and Settlers
Revolutionary Times
Us Government
Civil War Times
100
The study of the Earth and how we use it
What is geography?
100
This is the path that Europeans explorers used to originally explore
What is the Silk Road
100
This event began the Revolutionary War
What is the "Shot heard round the world?"
100
The first written set of laws.
What is the Constitution?
100
President of the Confederacy
Who was Jefferson Davis?
200
a half of a sphere
What is a hemisphere?
200
Explored what is now North and Central America in 1492
Who is Christopher Colombus?
200
Leader of the Continental Army
Who is George Washington?
200
This kind of government lets the people have a say by electing their officials.
What is a democracy?
200
Starated the American Red Cross
Who is Clara Barton?
300
An imaginary line that cuts the Earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres
What is the Equator?
300
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island
What are the New England Colonies?
300
A colonist who was against British Rule
What is a Patriot?
300
The first 10 amendments added to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
Former Slave who became a famous abolitionist
Who is Fredrick Douglass
400
An imaginary line that cuts the Earth into Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian
400
A huge farm whee usually one main crop is grown.
What is a plantation?
400
Document to announce that the colonies waqnted to be a free and independent nation.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
This system limited the power of each branch of government so that one branch didn't become more powerful than the other two.
What are checks and balances?
400
This document freed the slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
A land mass surrounded by water on 3 sides.
What is a pennisula?
500
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
What are the middle colonies?
500
A colonist who supported the rule of the British King and did not want to separate from Great Britain.
What is a Loyalist?
500
Author of the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
The secret route that slaves traveled on the escape to the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?