Geography
The countries that borders the United States today to the North and South.
What is Canada and Mexico?
One major negative impact of European exploration on the Native Americans who they encountered.
Spread of disease
Loss of land
This European country claimed the original thirteen colonies prior to the Revolutionary War.
What is Great Britain?
The United States government has this many branches.
What is three?
This document declared American Independence from the British.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The oceans that border the United States to the East and West.
What is the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans?
This is the name of the trade that occurred between the "Old World" (Europe, Asia, and Africa) and the "New World" (North and South America) after European discovery.
The Columbian Exchange
This was what colonists who remained loyal to the British during the American Revolution were called.
Loyalists
This was the original government of the United States, created during the revolutionary War.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
During this war, the British and colonists fought the French and Native Americans. Afterwards, the British started taxing the colonists to help pay back debts.
What is the French and Indian War?
The name of the expedition taken to explore the territory acquired through the Louisiana Purchase.
The continent from which Native Americans walked to North America.
Asia
One reason that colonists were unhappy with British rule in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War.
Taxation
No represntation in Parliament
Quartering of soldiers
Boston Massacre
These two bodies make up the legislative branch of the US government
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This was the slogan of the colonists that expressed their dissatisfaction with British laws.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
During the period of Westward Expansion, the United States expanded from the _____________ (North, South, East or West) to the _____________ (North, South, East or West)
East, West
One major motivation for European exploration of the Americas.
Wealth
Trade
Natural Resources
Trade routes
Effects of the Revolutionary War on Great Britain
Loss of land in the Americas
Britain could no longer use the colonies for raw materials
An addition or change to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
One weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is no president, no power to tax, no power to draft an army, etc.?
Name all seven continents
What are North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica?
Name at least 8 of the original thirteen colonies.
What are Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia?
This line caused anger amongst the colonists, who were told by the British government that they could not settle past it.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Identify one right protected by the United States Bill of Rights
Freedom of Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly, and Petition, Right to Keep and Carry Weapons, No Quartering Soldiers, No Unreasonable Searches and Seizures, Rights in Criminal Cases, Right to a Fair Trial, Right to a Jury in Civil Cases, No Cruel or Unusual Punishment
One warning given to the United States by George Washington in his Farewell Address.
What is against political parties or for neutrality?