Explorations
Spanish explorers, especially one of the 16th-century soldiers who defeated the Indian civilizations of Mexico, Central America, or Peru.
What is a conquistador?
This is the agreement that Pilgrims made during their voyage to America.
What is Mayflower Compact?
This pamphlet, published in 1776, argued for American independence from British rule.
What is Common Sense?
This is a aphrase that refers to the opening shot of the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, which sparked the American Revolutionary War and led to the creation of the United States.
"The shot heard around the world"
This 1803 agreement with France doubled the size of the United States.
What is Louisiana Purchase?
This is the person that understood that they landed on a new land, not Asia
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This Puritan minister was a key figure in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and delivered the famous sermon "A Model of Christian Charity", known as the one including "a city upon a hill".
Who is John Winthrop?
This term refers to American colonists who remained in favour of the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War.
Who are the Loyalists?
This 1820 agreement aimed to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is The Missouri Compromise?
This act in 1830 led to the forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans, known as the Trail of Tears.
What is Indian Removal Act?
They are the king and the queen of Spain during the explorations.
Who are Ferdinand and Isabella?
This event in Massachusetts resulted in the executions of 20 people.
What is Salem Witch Trials?
This event led to the major problems between England and its colonies, such as taxes.
French and Indian War/ Seven Years War
This tool led to an overwhelming increase in production of a certain production, and thus the need for slaves.
What is Cotton Gin?
This forced relocation of Native American tribes from the southeastern United States to what is now Oklahoma is known by this somber name.
What is the Trail of Tears
This is the first island that Columbus named after arriving at America.
What is San Salvador?
This Puritan theologian, known for his role in the Great Awakening, preached the famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
What is Treaty of Paris?
This is the leader of Confederate Army
Who is Robert E.Lee?
In 1845, this place, once an independent country, became the 28th state of the United States.
What is Texas?
This is the port's name that first English settlers departed from England.
What is Plymouth?
This Calvinist concept, central to the beliefs of many early American colonists, asserts that God has already decided who will be saved and who will be damned, regardless of individual actions.
What is predestination?
This war is known as the Second American Revolution.
What is the War of 1812?
This election, won by Abraham Lincoln, was a major factor leading to the secession of Southern states and the outbreak of the Civil War.
What is the 1860 Presidential Election?
It was the idea that white Americans were divinely destined to settle the entire continent of North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?