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100

a time before written history

prehistory

100

mission

settlement where priests talked about their religion

100

no longer governed by another country

independent

100

edge of a settled area

frontier

100

document that freed enslaved people in the South

emancipation proclamation

200

a good material; person, thing, or material that can be used for help or support

resource

200

land ruled by another country 

colony

200

the overthrow of a government by its subjects

revolution
200

land owned by a country

territory 

200

a person who comes to live in a new country

immigrant
300

an object such as a tool or a weapon made by people in the past

artifact

300

a nonexistent sailing route from the Great Lakes to Asia that the French hoped to find

Northwest Passage 

300

document that explained why the British colonies in America wanted independence

Declaration of Indepedence

300

a man-made waterway

canal

300

the war between the Union and the Confederacy

Civil War

400

people who get most of their food by hunting wild animals and gathering wild plants

hunter-gatherer

400

Virginia settlement in honor of King James of England

Jamestown

400

money paid to a government for its support

tax

400

a journey of exploration

expedition

400

the period following the Civil War

Reconstruction

500

the use of skills, tools, machines to meet people's needs

technology

500

person who delivered a letter to the French army demanding they leave the Ohio territory

George Washington 

500

group of men sneaked on board three British ships in the Boston Harbor and dumped a load of expensive tea

Boston Tea Party

500

territory purchased from France that stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains

Louisiana Purchase

500

a new way to do things or a new machine

invention