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Vocabulary
Inventors
100
The countries North and South of the United States.
What are Canada and Mexico?
100
The founders of Plymouth.
Who are the Puritans?
100
This drove the peaceful Puritans into America.
What is the English Civil War?
100
Government by the people, the rule of the majority.
What is a Democracy?
100
The inventor of the telephone.
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
200
The two oceans bordering the East and West Coasts of the U.S.
What are the Atlantic and Pacific?
200
The ship that the founders of Plymouth arrived on.
What is the Mayflower?
200
The two religious factions involved in the English Civil War.
Who were the Catholics and Protestants?
200
People who wanted a central government after the Revolutionary War, who also wanted a U.S. Constitution
Who were the Federalists?
200
E=mc2
Who is Albert Einstein?
300
The major river running through the Central U.S.
What is the Mississippi?
300
The founder of Jamestown.
Who is John Smith?
300
Several wars and rebellions fought in Germany in the 1600s
What was the 30 Years War?
300
A person under contract to serve a period of time (usually 7-8 years) to pay for passage to a new country.
What is an indentured servant?
300
Alexander Flemming.
Who invented penicillin?
400
The major mountain range that runs through the U.S. and Canada?
What is the Rocky Mountain Range?
400
What company funded Jamestown?
What is the Virginia Trading Company?
400
When an immigrant is given the rights of a citizen in his new country.
What is Naturalization?
400
The inventor of the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
500
The major mountain range in the N.E. United States.
What are the Appalachians?
500
A very influential Congregationalist, minister and witch hunter during the 1600s.
Who was Cotton Mather?
500
During the revolution these were mercenaries primarily used to combat the Americans (a faction from the 30 Years War).
Who are the Hessians?
500
A group of people who lived within a theocracy and believed that God had already chosen those to be saved.
Who were the Calvinists?
500
Dr. Jonas Salk.
Who invented the polio vaccine?