Early Native Americans
Early Native Americans crossed over this to get to the Americas from Siberia.
What is a land bridge?
This Dutch explorer sailed this river, later named for him, with the goal of finding a Northwest passage across the Western hemisphere.
Who is Henry Hudson?
Someone legally owning another person.
What is slavery?
This act taxed imports on a certain sweet ingredient and molasses into the American colonies.
What is the Sugar Act?
The first 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution are known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Nomadic tribes in the Great Plains region who relied on hunting built these portable, cone-shaped homes that were easy to travel with.
What are teepees?
The three major reasons that Europeans began to explore the Americas, coincidentally all starting with the same letter.
What is God, gold, and glory?
These colonies had lush plantations, a long growing season, small cities, and were split into two regions: the Tidewater and Piedmont.
What are the Southern colonies?
The Sugar, Stamp, and Quartering Acts were all passed by the British parliament to raise money for revenue lost during this war with France from 1754-1763.
What is the French and Indian War?
This amendment protects a person's freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and ability to petition the government.
What is the First Amendment?
The Anasazi tribe, in the Southwest, built these homes out of adobe, which shares the name of the Spanish word for town.
What is a pueblo?
Christopher Columbus landed in the Caribbean Islands thinking it was India, sailing for this country.
What is Spain?
This group of colonies gained the nickname the "Breadbasket Colonies" due to their large grain farms near major rivers.
What are the Middle Colonies?
Tired of taxes they had no say in, Massachusetts colonists protested by throwing boxes of a taxed item at this famous event in 1773.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
One of the many reasons why the Articles of Confederation failed was that it lacked the ability to assemble this protection and defense mechanism.
What is the military?
Native American tribes in the Northeast built these permanent, wooden structures as their homes.
What is a longhouse?
This European country established a thriving fur trade with Native Americans and made alliances with tribes like the Iroquois.
Who are the Dutch/the Netherlands?
This group of colonies had a short growing season due to their rocky terrain, but thrived in other industries such as fishing, shipbuilding, whaling, and trade due to their location along the coast.
What are the New England colonies?
This man wrote the Declaration of Independence, signed in 1776.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Alexander Hamilton and future President James Madison, part of this group, opposed a Bill of Rights.
Who are the Federalists?
The name of this group of 5 Native American tribes in present-day upstate New York.
America was named after this Italian explorer.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
The present-day state of Maine was part of this New England colony.
What is Massachussetts?
Who is Crispus Attucks?
"We the people, in order to form a more perfect Union..." is the opening line to what part of the Constitution?
What is the Preamble?