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Exploration and Colonization
Colonial America
New Nation
Civil War
Vocabulary
100
Colonists from Newfoundland sent this back to Europe.
What are fish?
100
This made the economies of New York and New Jersey strong.
What was trade?
100
Most important crop to the South's economy.
What was cotton?
100
People who traveled on the Underground Railroad.
Who were passengers?
100
A cone-shaped tent made from animal hides and wooden poles used by Native Americans of the Plains.
What is a teepee?
200

Bartolome de Las Casas was a famous _________________.

What is a missionary?

200
Cheaper land was the reason colonists chose to settle here.
What is the backcountry?
200
The two chambers of Congress that make laws.
What are Senate and House of Representatives?
200
1st major battle of the Civil War.
What was Bull Run?
200
The science of determining a ship's location and direction.
What is navigation?
300
These people had their passage to the colonies paid for in exchange for 5-7 years of work.
Who are indentured servants?
300
Colonists fought this country during the Revolutionary War.
What is Great Britain?
300
What the invention of better machinery allowed the farmers to do.
What is produce more food?
300
Group that formed to prevent African Americans from gaining equal rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
Laws passed by a lawmaking body.
What is legislation?
400
Chose the leaders of the Iroquois.
Who were clan mothers?
400
The battle that proved the Americans could defeat the British.
What is Saratoga?
400

"Father of the Constitution"

Who was James Madison?
400

Announcement that resulted in thousands of free African Americans joining the Union Army.

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
A scientist who looks for and studies artifacts.
Who is an archaeologist?
500
Helped the Pilgrims by teaching them to farm and hunt.
Who is Squanto?
500
The last major battle of the Revolutionary War.
What is Yorktown?
500
The United States went to war with this country over land in 1846.
What is Mexico?
500
Coordinate where the equator is located.
What is zero degrees latitude?
500
A statement of the liberties guaranteed by the government to the people.
What are Bill of Rights?