SocialStudiesUnit1

Tools, weapons, clothes, or articles used by people long ago

The Native American tribe that built a city near the Mississippi River across form where St. Louis is now.

The city this Native American tribe built across from St. Louis near the Mississippi.

Permanent homes made of wood and grasses near forests that Native Americans built ine the Eastern part of the U.S.

Homes the Plains Indians lived in that could be packed up and moved to follow the bison.

A government set up by 5 Native American tribes where each member had a say in how the government was run.

The group of men who gathered to write the U.S. constitution.

A European explorer who wanted to find a faster route from Europe to Asia.

The country who controlled Mexico, much of South America and most of the southwestern U.S. and Florida.

The group who left England in search of religious freedom in 1620.

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Two men leading the expidition that made maps and recorded information found while exploring the Louisiana Territory

He is known as the "Father of the Constitution" because he planned, wrote and fought for its approval.

Two people who went on the Louisiana Expidetion as guides.

The name of the document the Founders came up with to describe our new system of government.

The Native American's economy (or the way a group uses or produces natural resources, goods, and services) was closely related to their...

When the Europeans start to come to North America many Native Americans died, why?

In 1607 the English set up the firest successful colony in Virginia. What was its name.

In the French and Indian War shich side did the Native Americans join to fight with?

The French and Indian War cost Great Britian a lot of money. How did they try to earn the money back?

When Great Britian started taxing tea, how did the colonists show they disagreed with the tax?

What did the colonists know they would have to do once they signed and sent the Declaration of Independence?

What countries decided to help the colonists win their war of Independence at the last minute?

Why did the colonists move west of the Appalachian Mountains after the Revolutionary War?

When the settlers first moved past the Appalachian Mts. how did they intend to get the land from the Native Americans?

Why did France offer the Louisiana Territory to Thomas Jefferson?

How much did France sell the Louisiana Territory to the U.S. for?

What were the 3 main forms of transportation in the 1800?

A man-made waterway that connected the Hudson River to the Great Lakes

On Jan. 1, 1863 Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation declared what?

What group was formed to help get employers to agree to better wages and safer working conditions in the 1800's.

The name for the land north of the Ohio River.

What was the name of the terrible times our country faced after the stock market crashed on Oct. 29, 1929?

What was the name of Franklin Roosevelt's plan that created jobs to improve life during the Great Depression?

Unfair differences in the way people are treated.

The Civil Rights Movement

The war fought over slavery/state's Right

The "Great War" fought in 1914 when European countries struggled for power.

In 1933 England, France, and the Soviet Union fought Germany, Italy and Japan - We joined in when Japan bombed us at Pearl Harbor

A new kind of war where the U.S. and Soviet Union did not fight with guns, but with ideas, money and the strongest weapons to back them up.

The U.S. vowed to help countries attacked by communists so we got into this war with the North and South Koreans.

In 1961 - 1975 we sent troops to defend this country being attacked by communists.