Historical Events
This invention helped people travel much faster across the United States, especially in the 1800s.
What is the railroad?
Materials such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used by humans
What is natural resources?
This Native American woman is famous for helping English settlers at Jamestown
Who is Pocahontas?
This document was signed in 1776, and it declared the 13 colonies' independence from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This war was fought between the northern and southern parts of the United States from 1861 to 1865.
What is the American Civil War?
the establishment of a colony in a new place, often by forcing those who live there under the rule of the colonizing country.
What is Colonization?
This English settler married Pocahontas and helped improve the tobacco industry in Virginia.
Who is John Rolfe?
This document, issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, declared that all slaves in Confederate states were free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This law, passed in 1830, forced many Native American tribes to move west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The way in which history and culture are remembered by individuals and passed down orally from generation to generation
What is oral tradition?
This Italian explorer sailed for Spain and is credited with discovering the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This 3 year war starting in the 1800's was fought between the United States and Great Britain, partly over issues like trade restrictions and feeling that Britain was abusing their power.
What is the War of 1812?
This tragic event in the 1830s forced many Cherokee Native Americans to leave their homes and walk hundreds of miles to a new territory.
What is the Trail of Tears?
A refusal to give in, slowing down or preventing something
What is Resistance?
These two men led an expedition to explore the western United States, gathering valuable information about the land and native tribes.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
In 1803, the United States purchased this large piece of land from France, doubling the size of the country.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
These were places where goods and supplies were exchanged, often used by settlers and Native Americans in early America.
What are trading posts?
An area of land set apart by the US government for an indigenous nation or nations
What is reservation?
This woman helped many enslaved people escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This expedition, led by Lewis and Clark, explored the western part of the United States, opening new lands to settlers.
what is the corps of discovery?