America and Europe
What is a Hunter/Gatherer?
someone who collects plants and hunts wild animals for food
What is the name for idea that America should expand from coast to coast?
Manifest Destiny
Who was the President during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What stretched from the East Coast to the West Coast?
Transcontinental Railroad
Who was the Cold War between?
US and Soviet Union
tradition
What was it called when the colonists decided to break away from Europe?
The American Revolution
What caused the Civil War to begin?
The south broke away from the Union
Who is a person who risks money to start a new business?
Entrepreneur
Who was the first country in space?
Soviet Union
What is a person who is not free?
enslaved
What is a plan of government?
Constitution
What was the south called?
Confederation
When a lot of immigrants came to America it made the new nation very ________.
diverse
What happened after Rosa Parks was arrested?
boycott of public buses
Where is Christopher Columbus first land?
Cuba and the Bahamas
What is a change or addition to the constitution?
Amendment
What is Reconstruction?
Building the country back up after the Civil War
Why did the Americans enter WWII?
Attack on Pearl Harbor
What is it called when countries rely on one another for goods?
Interdependent
When goods were shared between the Native Americans and Europeans it is called _____?
Columbian Exchange
What happened to nearly double the size of America in 1803?
The Louisiana Purchase
Who was the person who tried to help African Americans gain equal rights by saying a speech in Washington D.C.?
Martin Luther King Jr.
What was the time that the economy went into a serious slump and slowdown?
The Great Depression
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