Early American History
These were the first people to live in America.
What are Native Americans / American Indians?
This ideal is another word for "freedom"
What is Liberty?
This is the date (day, month and year) that the Declaration of Independence was signed, making the United States an Independent country.
July 4th, 1776
A textbook is an example of this kind of source.
What is a Secondary source?
This countries colonies became the first American states.
This ideal can be defined as "power by the people"
What is Democracy?
The Stamp Act forced American colonists to pay taxes on this good.
What is paper?
A recorded interview is an example of this kind of source.
What is a primary source?
This is how scientists think the first people migrated to America.
What is Crossing a land bridge from Siberia / Russia during the last ice age?
This 1776 document outlined our five founding American ideals.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This is the name given to the event in which five American colonists were shot and killed by British soldiers.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This is an excellent website to BEGIN research with, but should never be cited in bibliographies.
What is Wikipedia?
This is the name of the explorer who "sailed the ocean blue in 1492."
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This ideal was called "inalienable" by Thomas Jefferson
What are Rights?
This war gave the British government huge debts and caused them to begin taxing the American colonists, leading to the American Revolution.
What is the French and Indian War?
This 2nd step of the primary source analysis process asks you to make inferences about what you've observed.
What is Reflect?
This is the name of the new holiday that widely replaced "Columbus Day" in 2014.
What is Indigenous People's Day?
The ideal of "opportunity" comes from these three words in the Declaration of Independence.
What is "Pursuit of Happiness"?
This is the name of the leader of the American army during the Revolutionary War.
Who is George Washington?
This was the original capital of the United States.
What is Philadelphia?