Experts believe the first people to settle the Americas traveled here from ______across a land-bridge.

Descendants of these early people are called ___________.

In what year did Christopher Columbus sail 3 ships for Asia?

Christopher Columbus actually discovered an island off the coast of North America. He claimed this new land for ___________.

Who settled St. Augustine, Florida in 1565?

Who settled Jamestown, Virginia in 1607?

Who settled Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620?

Anything new shared between Europe and the Americas was called the _______.

Which of the following did NOT come from Europe?

Which of the following did NOT come from the Americas?

What terrible practice first started in the Americas in 1619?

What upset British subjects in the 13 colonies?

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776?

Who became America's first president in 1789?

Colonist fought and won independence from the British in a war called ________.

Who sold the “Louisiana Purchase” to the USA for less than 3 cents an acre?

Which of the following did NOT explore the Louisiana Purchase?

The idea that our young nation should expand from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific Ocean was called ________.

What do we call the period of time with an increase in factories and more goods being made by machines?

Factories and cities grew larger in the _______, and free labor was used.

The ________had large farms and depended upon enslaved Africans to grow and harvest crops.

Abraham Lincoln and the abolitionists both worked to end ______.

Southern states seceded, or broke away, to form the ____________.

What do we call the 4 years of fighting (1861-1865) between the North and South?