First Americans
What word describes people who move from place to place to find food?
What is Nomads?
What continent were many European explorers trying to reach by sea?
What is Asia?
These were the three colonial regions.
What are the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies?
This is a crop grown mainly to be sold for profit.
What is a cash crop?
This country ruled the 13 colonies before the American Revolution.
What is Great Britain / England?
This person was the commander of the Continental Army.
Who was George Washington?
This was America’s first national government.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
This person was the first president of the United States.
Who was George Washington?
This means the movement of settlers into western lands.
What is westward expansion?
This issue was the biggest cause of the Civil War.
What is slavery?
What land bridge did early people likely cross to enter North America?
What is the Bering Land Bridge (between Asia and North America)?
What were the “3 Gs” of European exploration?
What is Gold, God, and Glory?
This colonial region was known for large plantations.
What are Southern Colonies?
This was one major cash crop grown in the Southern Colonies.
What is tobacco, cotton, rice, or indigo?
This phrase means colonists were taxed but had no representatives in Parliament.
What is taxation without representation?
This person wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This was one weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Congress could not tax, had no strong executive, had no national court system, or had weak central power?
This is an example or tradition followed later.
What is a precedent?
This was the belief that the U.S. was meant to, or had a "God-given" right to, expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
These were the two sides in the Civil War.
What are the Union (North) and the Confederacy (South)?
Why did early people follow animal herds?
What is For food, clothing, tools, and survival
What country sponsored Christopher Columbus’s voyage in 1492?
What is Spain?
This colonial region had rocky soil, shipbuilding, fishing, and trade.
What are the New England Colonies?
This was the purpose of a colonial town meeting.
What is to discuss and make decisions about local government?
This law taxed printed materials like newspapers and legal papers.
What is the Stamp Act?
This document declared the colonies independent from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This meeting was held to fix the Articles of Confederation but created a new Constitution instead.
What was the Constitutional Convention?
Washington warned against these two things in his Farewell Address.
What are political parties and foreign alliances?
Many settlers used this trail to move west.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This person was president of the United States during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
What are objects made or used by people in the past called?
What are Artifacts?
The transfer of plants, animals, people, diseases, and ideas between the Old World and New World
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The Middle Colonies were sometimes called the “breadbasket colonies” for this reason.
What is because they grew a lot of grain, especially wheat?
This group was forced to work on plantations and had very few rights.
Who were enslaved Africans?
This event involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This was the first major battle of the American Revolution. (bonus points if you tell me the nickname/phrase that goes with this battle)
What is Lexington and Concord? (Shots heard 'round the world)
This is an agreement where each side gives up something.
What is a compromise?
The Louisiana Purchase changed the United States in this way.
What is it doubled the size of the country?
This law forced Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The Emancipation Proclamation did this.
What is it freed most enslaved people?
How can artifacts help historians?
What is They show how people lived, worked, hunted, or worshipped?
This was brought to North America from Europeans and severely lowered Native populations.
What is Disease?
This is one reason people came to the colonies.
What is religious freedom, land, money, trade, or a new life?
This colonial economic system involved England controlling colonial trade to increase the mother country’s wealth.
What is mercantilism?
These were punishments passed by Britain after the Boston Tea Party.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
This country became an important ally of the Americans.
What is France?
The Great Compromise solved this issue.
What is representation in Congress?
This is the power of the Supreme Court to decide if laws are constitutional.
What is judicial review?
This was the forced removal of the Cherokee that caused great suffering and death.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This battle is often considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
Why did some Native American groups settle permanently instead of moving often?
What is They developed farming and could grow food in one place?
European countries wanted colonies in the Americas for these reasons.
What are wealth, land, resources, and power?
Geography affected colonial economies in this way.
What is different climates, soil, and resources led to different jobs and industries?
Colonial families often made many goods at home for this reason.
What is because many stores and factories did not exist, so families had to be self-sufficient?
Many colonists became angry after the French and Indian War for this reason.
What is Britain taxed them to pay war debts and limited westward settlement?
The Battle of Saratoga was important for this reason.
What is it convinced France to support the Americans?
These are the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Canals and railroads changed the United States in this way.
What is they made transportation faster and cheaper, helped trade, and connected regions?
This was the period of rebuilding the South and bringing former Confederate states back into the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
How did geography affect the lives of early Native American groups?
What is It influenced their food, housing, clothing, tools, and way of life?
European colonization negatively affected Native Americans in these ways.
What are loss of land, disease, warfare, forced labor, and cultural disruption?
Slavery grew more in the Southern Colonies than in New England for this reason.
What is the South’s plantation economy needed a large labor force for cash crops?
Colonial life differed depending on region, class, race, and gender in this way.
What is people had different jobs, rights, opportunities, and responsibilities depending on their place in society?
British policies helped push the colonies toward independence in this way.
What is the taxes, laws, military presence, and lack of colonial voice made colonists believe their rights were being violated?
The Battle of Yorktown was important for this reason.
What is it was the final major battle and helped end the war?
Anti-Federalists wanted a Bill of Rights added to the Constitution for this reason.
What is to protect individual rights from government abuse? (To prevent Tyranny)
The Louisiana Purchase was important, even though some questioned its constitutionality, for this reason.
What is it gave the U.S. huge new territory, resources, and access to the Mississippi River, but the Constitution did not clearly say the president could buy land?
Westward expansion created conflict in this way.
What is it caused conflict over Native American land, slavery, resources, and political power?
These amendments officially ended slavery, gave citizenship/equal protection, and protected voting rights for Black men, they were passed after the war was over.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments? (Known as Civil War Amendments)
Throughout the year, students studied early Native Americans, exploration, colonization, revolution, government, expansion, and the Civil War. This is one major theme that connects many of these units.
What is conflict over land, power, rights, freedom, and government shaped the development of the United States how we see it today?