Colony Chronicles
This country established the first permanent settlement in North America.
What is England?
This was the main reason the colonists wanted independence from Britain.
What is taxation without representation?
This branch of government carries out the laws?
What is the executive branch?
This was the main form of transportation for settlers moving west.
What are covered wagons?
He was the President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The Pilgrims sailed to America on this famous ship.
What is the Mayflower?
This famous midnight rider warned, “The British are coming!”
Who is Paul Revere?
This branch of government makes the laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This famous expedition explored the land from the mass purchase of land to the west.
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
This document freed enslaved people in Confederate states in 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This group founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620.
Who are the Pilgrims?
This document, adopted on July 4, 1776, announced Americas freedom from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This is the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This purchase doubled the size of the US in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The war ended when this Confederate general surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The colony of Pennsylvania was founded by this religious group seeking religious freedom.
Who are the Quakers?
The first battles of the American Revolution took place in these two towns.
What are Lexington and Concord?
The Constitution replaced this earlier plan of government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This trail was the main route for settlers moving to Oregon in the 1840s.
What is the Oregon Trail?
After the Civil War, these laws in the South limited the rights of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
This cash crop helped Jamestown, Virginia, become profitable.
What is tobacco?
This treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This compromise settled the issue of counting enslaved people for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
The forced removal of Cherokee people to Oklahoma is known as this.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This government agency was created after the Civil War to help formerly enslaved people with food, education, and jobs.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?