Roots of the American People
The United States is on this continent.
What is North America?
This is what explorers were trying to find when they traveled across the Atlantic to America.
What is a path to Asia? Or The Northwest Passage?
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 is what the Natives believed when the first explorers showed up on their land.
What is with the belief that they were Gods?
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 is the name of the Native Americans that live in Central New York.
What is the Haudenosaunee?
What did explorers want to find in Asia?
What are spices?
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? or the Emancipation Proclamation?
These are the names of the 5 (or 6) nations that are part of the Native American group from Central New York.
Who are the Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca, Oneida, Tuscarora, and Mohawk?
This country laid claim to the area that is now New York, but used to be New Netherlands.
Who was the Netherlands?
This European country was a major ally to the colonists.
What is France?
What is ten?
The state of New York fought for this side of the war.
What is the North (Union)?