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Short Answer
100
Native Americans were the first people to live in North America
TRUE
100
A term that describes history through spoken stories.
oral history
100
A person that goes out to find out about a place
What is explorer
100
How did Thomas Jefferson double the size of the country?
What is bought the land of the Louisiana Purchase.
100
What is the Constitution of the United States?
What is set of laws that tell how a government will work.
200
Spanish and Native Americans were in conflict at the Jamestown settlement
What is FALSE- correct answer: the ENGLISH AND NATIVE AMERICANS
200
Freedom from another country's control
What is independence.
200
A land that belongs to government that is not a state or a colony.
What is a territory.
200
Which war was about fighting for slavery between the Northern U.S. and the Southern U.S. ?
What is the Civil War.
200
What was the Emancipation Proclamation? (p. 217)
What is a document that made it a law to free the slaves.
300
In the 1700s the British ruled the 13 colonies
What is TRUE!
300
Money that people pay to the government
What is tax.
300
Two parts of one country fighting
What is civil war
300
Which war was mainly about the colonists wanting their own land- so that it would not be ruled by Britain any longer.
What is the Revolutionary War.
300
What did Sacagawea do for Lewis and Clark?
What is she helped them guide their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase
400
People who come to live in a country from somewhere else around the world.
What is immigrant.
400
A system in which people have to work for others for no pay and no choices.
What is slavery.
400
This place is the oldest lasting European settlement in what is now the United States
What is St. Augustine, Florida
400
Name some changes our society went through in the 1800s
What is railroads, space exploration, technology
500
a vocab word for: "a new community"
What is a settlement
500
The boat that took people from England to North America
What is the Mayflower
500
In 1773, colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor because they were upset about taxes. What event was this?
What is Boston Tea Party
500
What was life like as a pioneer?
Examples: pioneers are always on the move they must wear a lot of clothing the men hunt they faced sickness, accidents and bad weather they built their own houses they went to school 7 days a week the teacher taught all grades in one classroom