Roots of the American People
The United States is on this continent.
What is North America?
This is the language they speak in Spain.
What is Spanish?
This country controlled the 13 colonies that eventually became the United States.
What is Great Britain?
The Constitution established a government with this many branches.
These were the two sides fighting in the Civil War.
What are the North and South (Union and Confederacy)?
Earth was covered with these large sheets of ice during the Ice Age.
What are glaciers?
This is the direction you travel when you sail from Europe to North America.
What is West?
This was the first president of the new United States.
Who was George Washington?
This branch of the government writes the laws.
What is the legislative branch (Congress)?
This man was president during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The first people to come to North America came from this Continent.
What is Asia?
This country was the first to colonize many parts of present day Mexico and South America.
What is Spain?
Virginia, New York, and Colorado. One of these was not part of the 13 original colonies.
What is Colorado?
This branch of the government enforces the laws.
What is the North (Union)?
This ancient Native American civilization is famous for creating an extremely accurate calendar that ended in the year 2012.
What is the Mayan civilization?
The Nina, Pinta and this name were the names of Christopher Columbus' ships.
What is the Santa Maria?
After the war, the United States established this type of government for itself.
What is a democracy?
This branch of government interprets the laws.
What is the judicial branch (Supreme Court)?
This amendment abolished the institution of slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This was a popular trade route that connected Asia, Africa Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
This was the first European to reach North America (hint: it's not who you think it is).
Who was Leif Erikson?
This European country was a major ally to the colonists.
What is France?
What is ten?
The state of Illinois fought for this side of the war.
What is the North (Union)?