Exploration & Trade
This triangular trade route transported enslaved Africans to the Americas.
➡️ What is the Middle Passage?
This colony was founded by William Penn.
➡️ What is Pennsylvania?
This term means a very small amount.
➡️ What is meager?
This document declared the colonies separate from Britain in 1776.
➡️ What is the Declaration of Independence?
The U.S. expanded west in search of this.
➡️ What is wealth (gold, land, opportunity)?
European explorers were searching for this water route through North America to reach Asia.
➡️ What is the Northwest Passage?
These colonies included Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey.
➡️ What were the Middle Colonies?
This term describes a rebellion by sailors or enslaved people on a ship.
➡️ What is mutiny?
This document explains the laws and structure of the U.S. government.
➡️ What is the Constitution?
This country sold Alaska to the United States.
➡️ What is Russia?
This triangular trade system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
➡️ What is Triangular Trade?
This war lasted from 1754–1763 between Britain and France.
➡️ What was the French and Indian War?
Enslaved Africans maintained their culture through these traditions.
➡️ What are music, dance, cooking methods, storytelling, and religion?
After the American Revolution, the U.S. stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to this river.
➡️ What is the Mississippi River?
This 1867 act created the Dominion of Canada.
➡️ What was the British North America Act?
This explorer searched for a northern route to Asia and has a river and bay named after him.
➡️ Who was Henry Hudson?
The main reason Britain and the colonists fought in the French and Indian War was to gain control of this.
➡️ What is land?
This was the brutal ocean journey enslaved Africans endured.
➡️ What is the Middle Passage?
The U.S. gained much of its Southwest territory through this 1848 treaty.
➡️ What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
From the American Revolution to the Civil War, most immigrants came from this continent.
➡️ What is Europe?
French explorers were looking for this valuable natural resource in North America.
➡️ What are furs?
These were three of the original 13 colonies.
➡️ What are examples such as Virginia, Massachusetts, Maryland, Georgia, etc.?
These were actions taken by enslaved people to resist slavery.
➡️ What are revolts or rebellions?
This was the war between Mexico and the United States that ended in 1848.
➡️ What was the Mexican-American War?
It took approximately this many years for the U.S. to expand to its current size (based on your map).
➡️ What is about 70–80 years? (Adjust to match your textbook answer.)