Colonial Times
The United States is on what continent?
What is North America?
This is the language they speak in Spain.
What is Spanish?
This country controlled the 13 colonies that eventually became the United States.
What is Great Britain?
The Constitution established a government with this many branches.
What is three?
These were the two sides fighting in the Civil War.
What are the North and South (Union and Confederacy)?
The exchange of people, plants, and animals across the Atlantic Ocean as the result of Columbus's discovery of the New World was called the _____.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Where is Oklahoma?
This was the first president of the new United States.
Who was George Washington?
This branch of the government writes the laws.
What is the legislative branch (Congress)?
This man was president during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
What two people groups were most negatively affected by the Columbian Exchange?
Who were the Native Americans & Africans
What is a Treaty?
What is an agreement?
Virginia, New York, and Colorado. One of these was not part of the 13 original colonies. Which one wasn't. (cute: it's not the state that Mr. Samuel lives in)
What is Colorado?
This branch of the government enforces the laws.
What is the executive branch (president)?
What was the purpose of the Civil War?
What is to abolish slavery in the southern states?
Who sailed from Spain and landed in the Bahamas in 1492?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
What is the name of the event that forced Africans to the Americas through a pathway in the ocean, that led to enslavement in America?
What is the Middle Passage?
What was the name of the battle, that was fought only 41 miles from Albany New York?
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This branch of government interprets the laws.
What is the judicial branch (Supreme Court)?
This amendment that allows freedom of Religion, Speech and Press in the United States.
What is the 1st Amendment?
Where did Columbus mistakenly think he landed?
What is the Indies of Asia?
_________ in 1830 authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi river to lands in the west.
What is The Indian Removal Act?
Who was the the commander of the Continental Army?
Who was George Washington?
The the first 10 amendments is known as what?
What is the Bill of Rights?
The state of Illinois fought for this side of the war.
What is the North (Union)?