Unit 1: and 5: A Growing Nation
What are the invisible lines called that divide the Earth vertically and horizontally.
What are the latitude and longitude lines?
Name of the Spanish explorers and soldiers.
Who are the conquistadors?
The nickname for the Middle Colonies.
What is the "breadbasket?"
People who are against the war with Britain.
Who are "Loyalists?"
A system of secret escape routes that led enslaved people to free lands.
What is the Underground Railroad?
What are the Legislative, Judicial, and Executive branches of government?
The period of time called that was started by Martin Luther's questioning of the Catholic Church.
What is the Reformation?
The nickname for the Calvert family that governed Maryland.
Who is "Lord Calvert?"
The name of the last major battle of the Revolutionary War where the American armies trapped the British forces in the water.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
The first southern state to succeed from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
The name of the group that migrated to California to find gold?
Who are the 49ers?
The name of Chief Powhatan's daughter who saved the life of Captain John Smith.
Who is Pocahontas?
Names of two colonists who were kicked out of their colony for spreading "dangerous beliefs."
Who are Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams
The name of the French general who was called the "soldier's friend" for his generosity at Valley Forge.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
The name of the Lee's unsuccessful charge on the third day of Gettysburg.
What is Pickett's Charge?
Names the five Great Lakes
What are Lakes Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior?
Names two explorers except for Christopher Columbus.
An important industry for the economy of the New England colony.
What is shipbuilding?
The name of the country's first plan of government.
What is The Articles of Confederation?
Who is Henry Clay
An event that happened in 1787 that caused many leaders in the United States to call for a Constitutional Convention.
What is Shaye's Rebellion?
The main principle of the Mayflower Compact.
What is "majority rules?"
Name the 13 states that make up the 13 colonies.
What are: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island?
The set of laws set up to plan for governing the Northwest Territory and forming new states from its lands.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
The date and location where the surrender for the Civil War was signed.
What is April 9, 1865 and Appomattox Courthouse?