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A new country
Moving West
Civil War
America Grows
Modern America
100
Who discovered North America?
Christopher Columbus
100
What are settlers?
People that move to a new place.
100
How did Lincoln die?
Assassinated during a play by John Wilkes Booth.
100
What were the laws called in the south that still separated whites and blacks
Jim Crow laws
100
What was America like during the Great Depression?
poor, people lost their jobs and homes
200
Who was the second president?
John Adams
200
Who already lived in Amercia before Columbus and settlers came?
Native Americans
200
What was the name of the famous speech Lincoln gave that freed the slaves?
Either emancipation proclamation or the Gettysburg address.
200
What is an immigrant?
Someone that moves to a new country?
200
How did terrorists attack New York in 2001?
Drove airplanes into the twin towers. Blew up building or towers.
300
What was the name of the new country?
United States
300
The Cherokee Indians traveled on the Trail of Tears, why was the trail called the Trail of Tears?
They were forced from their land which was very sad.
300
What were large farms that had slaves called?
plantations
300
What did Alexander Graham Bell invent and what did the Wright brothers invent?
telephone and the airplane
300
Who bombed Pearl Harbor?
the Japanese
400
What was the name of the war against the British king?
Revolutionary War
400
America fought Mexico for what new state?
Texas
400
What were soldiers from the north called?
yankees
400
What is the economy?
our jobs, money, ability to buy things
400
What president created "The New Deal" to help Americans find jobs?
Franklin Roosevelt
500
What does the D.C. in Washington, D.C. stand for?
District of Columbia
500
Why did so many settlers move west and what new invention helped people travel faster?
The gold rush and trains.
500
What did the south call themselves when they wanted to leave the United States?
the confederacy
500
What was a popular type of music in the 1920's?
Jazz
500
Why did America join in the fight during World War II?
Because of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.