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American Revolution
Exploration Period
A New Government
Colonial Period
Thinking like a Historian
100
This man was chosen to lead the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
100
Columbus sailed across this body of water to discover the New World.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
100
This man was chosen as the first president.
Who is George Washington?
100
This ship was the main ship that carried the first Pilgrims to the New World.
What is the Mayflower?
100
Who, what, ________________, when, why, how?
What is where?
200
This document explains the reasons why we had to separate from England.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
This was the religion that Europeans wanted to spread to the New World.
What is Christianity?
200
The law of the land comes from this document.
What is the Constitution?
200
This American Indian was supposed to have saved John Smith's life.
Who is Pocahontas?
200
When studying an event we look for a cause and then the ___________.
What is effect?
300
This young man did most of the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
This country paid for Columbus' trip to the new world.
What is Spain?
300
This man from Virginia is called "the Father of the Constitution."
Who is James Madison?
300
This was the first permanent English colony in the New World.
What is Jamestown?
300
A document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study.
What is a primary source?
400
This European country helped the Americans win the Revolution.
What is France?
400
This group of explorers sailed from Norway, Iceland, or Greenland to North America in the Year 1000.
Who are the Vikings?
400
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are called this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
This man was a major leader of the Jamestown colony.
Who is John Smith?
400
Textbooks, articles and essays about historical events are known as this.
What is a secondary source?
500
This pamphlet written by Thomas Paine influenced many people in America to favor the split with England.
What is "Common Sense"?
500
This Portuguese explorer is given credit for first sailing around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan
500
The city in which delegates met to revise the Articles of Confederation was held here.
What is Philadelphia?
500
The southernmost colony of the thirteen English colonies was named this.
What is Georgia?
500
When thinking about someone in history's point of view, you are taking their _______________.
What is perspective?