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Vocabulary
Early Explorers + Native Americans
Slavery
The 13 Colonies
Civil Rights
100
To settle
What is to move to a new area and live there?
100
England, France, Portugal and Spain.
What are the European countries that sent explorers to the Americas?
100
West Africa.
What is the part of Africa where most slaves for the Americas came from?
100
The East Coast.
What is the location where English colonists arrived?
100
Abraham Lincoln.
What is the name of the President who changed the law that make slavery illegal?
200
Colonists
What are the first Europeans to come to the American continent to live?
200
To have more power and control.
Why did the European countries want land in the Americas?
200
Bu ship.
How were slaves from West Africa brough to the Americas?
200
King George.
Who was the King of England who ruled the English colonies?
200
Harriet Tubman.
What is the name of the famous freed slave who risked her life many times to free other slaves?
300
Trade
What is to exchange one thing for another thing?
300
Iroquois.
What is a tribe of Native Americans who lived in what is now the Northeast of the United States?
300
To work on the farms/plantations.
Why were West African slaves brought to the Americas?
300
Because King George's laws were not fair.
What is the reason why English colonists wanted to be free from England?
300
Non-white skinned people continued to be separate from white people in the United States
Why were not all people in the United States still not free?
400
Slaves
What is a person who is owned by another person, and treated like a thing?
400
Genocide.
What is the mass (big) killing of a people, like what happened to many Native Americans, when the Europeans arrived in the Americas?
400
Like objects/things to be traded.
How were African slaves treated in the Americas?
400
For the colonists to be free from the rule of England.
Why was the American Revolutionary War fought?
400
Ku Klux Klan
What is the name of a group in the United States that shares the same thinking as Nazis, andhates anyone different from them?
500
Freedom
What is a synonym of independence and liberty?
500
1.6%.
What is the percent of the population in the United States in 2010 of Native Americans?
500
Cotton, sugar cane, and tobacco.
What are the crops that African slaves picked in the Americas?
500
Because there were 13 original states when the United States was born.
Why did the first American flag only have 13 stars?
500
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who became the leader in the United States by bringing all races, religions, and languages together to work together for freedom?