Colonial Period
The group of people who lived in America before the Europeans arrived (Q59)
Native Americans or American Indians
the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted (Q63)
July 4, 1776
first Postmaster General of the United States (Q68)
Benjamin Franklin
Father of Our Country and first president of the United States (Q69, Q70)
George Washington
This country sold Louisiana to the U.S. in 1803 (Q71)
France
The group of people who was taken to America and sold as slaves. (Q60)
Africans or people from Africa
He started the first free libraries (Q68)
Benjamin Franklin
Writer of the Declaration of Independence (Q62)
Thomas Jefferson
The document that freed the slaves in the 1800s (Q76)
Emancipation Proclamation
New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey (Q64)
3 of the original 13 states
(Q66) The date the U.S. gained independence from British
July 4, 1776
He led the United States during the Civil War (Q75)
Abraham Lincoln
She fought for women's and civil rights. (Q77)
Susan B. Anthony
slavery
economic reasons
states’ rights (Q74)
Problems that led to the Civil War
This group of states wanted slavery to continue (Q74)
The Southern states
taxation without representation
the British army stayed in their houses
no self-government (Q61)
Reasons colonists fought the British
Pseudonym of Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay (Q67)
Publius
(Q76) He freed the slaves through the Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
A war fought by the United States in the 1800s (Q72)
War of 1812
Mexican-American War
Civil War
Spanish-American War
Location of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 (Q66)
Philadelphia
(Q66) The year the Constitution was written
1787
These essays were written to support the Constitution (Q67)
The Federalist Papers
They wrote The Federalist Papers (Q67)
Publius
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
This war was between the North and the South (Q73)
the Civil War
War Between the States
Another name for the Civil War (Q73)
the War between the States