A/an _______________ studies artifacts and sites to learn about ancient people.
Who is an archeologist?
100
Freedom from rule by others is called ______________.
What is independence?
100
A person who comes to live in a new land is called a(n) ______________.
Who is an immigrant?
100
A ______________ was an area set aside for Native Americans.
What is a reservation?
100
The war fought between the Soviet Union and the United States was called ___________.
What is the Cold War?
200
The way of life of a group of people is called _____________.
What is culture?
200
The Declaration of Independence was written by ______________.
What is Thomas Jefferson?
200
A time period of growing industry when machines were used to build things and more factories were built. This time period was called the ____________________________.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
200
The nation was becoming more _____________, or varied, as people came to the United States from different places.
What is diverse?
200
The rights to freedom and equality are called _________________.
What are civil rights?
300
In 1492, an explorer lead expeditions to find a direct route to Asia. His name was _____________.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
300
A union of states that agree to cooperate is called a ___________________.
What is a confederation?
300
A person who wants to end slavery was called ____________.
Who is an abolitionist?
300
When the economy goes into a deep and serious slowdown and people lose their jobs, this is called a ____________.
What is a depression?
300
A person who uses violence for political reason is called a ________________.
Who is a terrorist?
400
The settlements that were ruled by another country are called ______________. There were 13 original ones in the United States.
What is a colony?
400
A group of people who are responsible for making the country's laws are called ___________.
Who is congress?
400
To break away or officially withdraw from the Union was called ____________________.
What is to secede?
400
In what year was the American naval base, Pearl Harbor, attacked by the Japanese?
What is 1941?
400
A man who fought for the civil rights movement by using peaceful protests, who was eventually killed for it was _________________.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
500
A belief or custom handed down through the generations is called a _______________.
What is a tradition?
500
Thomas Jefferson bought a piece of land that doubled the size of the United States. It was called _____________.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
500
Name the difference between the North and the South.
The North had more people, cities, and factories.
The south was largely a farming region.
500
____________ is when one leader has complete power over a country.
What is fascism?
500
Who was the woman who would not give up her seat on the bus during the civil rights movement?