Explorers & Colonies
This explorer sailed for Spain and reached the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This country ruled the American colonies before independence.
What is Great Britain?
This president led the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This expedition explored the Louisiana Territory.
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
This document freed enslaved people in rebelling states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This colony was founded by William Penn as a place of religious tolerance.
What is Pennsylvania?
This protest involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
She helped enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This 1803 purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
These three amendments abolished slavery and protected civil rights.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
These settlers came to America on the Mayflower.
Who are the Pilgrims?
This patriot helped organize the Sons of Liberty and supported colonial resistance to British taxes.
Who is Samuel Adams?
This president wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This trail was used by pioneers traveling west to Oregon.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This all-Black Union regiment from Massachusetts was known for its bravery during the Civil War, especially in the assault on Fort Wagner.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment?
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
He was the commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
This president was known as “Old Hickory” for his toughness.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This 1800s belief held that Americans were meant to spread across the continent, encouraging westward expansion to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Fought in 1863, this battle is widely seen as the turning point that shifted momentum toward the Union.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This cash crop helped make the Virginia colony successful.
What is tobacco?
This phrase describes colonists being taxed without representation.
What is taxation without representation?
This Washington, D.C. theater is where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.
What is Ford’s Theatre?
During the Texas Revolution, this famous battle cry was used to honor the defenders who died at a mission in San Antonio after Mexican forces defeated them at the Alamo.
What is Remember the Alamo?
After the Civil War ended in 1865, this period addressed how the United States would reunite and rebuild the defeated Southern states.
What is Reconstruction?