The Government
This is the set of rules that were made so that America was not ruled like it was when the King of England was in control.
What is the Constitution?
What is West?
In the 1600s colonists sent ships to Africa and brought people who were forced to do work and were owned by others.
Who are slaves?
This is a symbol of America. It is a strong large bird that is only found in North America.
What is a bald eagle?
This word means money paid to the government.
What are taxes?
In this type of government, people choose their leaders.
What is a democracy?
These are the Americans that moved West in covered wagons.
What are pioneers?
This was the group of people that helped the slaves run away to be free in the northern states or Canada.
Who are the Underground Railroad?
This holiday is celebrated on the 4th Thursday in November and Americans think about what they are grateful for.
What is Thanksgiving?
This word means a city in which the government of a country or state is located.
What is the capital?
The president and vice president work at this place in Washington D.C.
What is the White House?
In 1803 Thomas Jefferson bought this piece of land from France.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This was the war that happened between the Union Army and the Confederate Army when they went to war to abolish slavery.
What is the Civil War?
**Abolish means put an end to slavery.
This holiday celebrates the Day the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is the Fourth of July?
What is the word that means setting free and it has to do with when slaves were set free.
What is emancipation?
Americans ______________a president every 4 years.
What is elect? *Elect means to take part in choosing.
These were the towns in the West that grew quickly.
What are boomtowns?
This president ordered the emancipation of Slaves in America after the Union Army won the war.
Who was President Abraham Lincoln?
This holiday celebrates a person who worked hard to fight for equal rights in the 1960s. He wanted equality for all.
What is Martin Luther King Day?
**When is it?
The word for the people who live in a place before many other people were there.
What are pioneers?
This part of our government is made up of 9 judges or justices that make sure the laws are fair.
What is the Supreme Court?
These were the two explorers that traveled all the West to the Pacific Ocean.
Who are Lewis and Clarke?
This is the name of the army or the North__________________.
This is the name of the army of the south ______________.
The Union Army
The Confederate Army
This symbol was a gift from France and holds a torch.
This symbol is something that rang when the Declaration of Independence was read.
This symbol is also called Old Glory.
The Statue of Liberty
The Liberty Bell
The American Flag
This is the freedom to act, speak, and think the way one chooses.
What is Liberty?