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?
13 original colonies
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?
What is the country north of the United States?
Canada
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?
Who is on the 100-dollar bill?
Benjamin Franklin
What is the North (Union)?
Who were the first people in the United States?
The Native Americans
The Nina, Pinta and this name were the names of Christopher Columbus' ships.
What is the Santa Maria?
What did the colonists throw into the Boston Bay?
Tea
What does the word "Mankato" actually mean?
Blue schunk
This amendment abolished the institution of slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
What ocean did people typically cross to get to the United States?
The Atlantic Ocean
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?
The First President born in the United States
Martin Van Buren
The state of Illinois fought for this side of the war.
What is the North (Union)?