Industrial Revolution | Westward Expansion | The Constitution | Colonial America | American Revolution |
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What is the time period known as the Industrial Revolution?
The time period where machines and new sources of power took the place of humans doing work.
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What is the Shoshone Indian women who helped Lewis and Clark navigate through the land westward to the Pacific Ocean.
Sacagawea
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Who is the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
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What was the Mayflower compact
A set of rules put in place to govern the colonies
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What are Lexington and Concord?
The first battles of the American Revolution
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What was the man-made waterway that connected NYC to the Great Lakes region?
The Erie Canal
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What is the name of the person responsible for sending Lewis and Clark on their journey through the West?
Thomas Jefferson
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What is the meaning of freedom of the press?
The right to publish your own thoughts in writing
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What is the name of the man who helped improve the city of Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin
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What are two things that American women were responsible for doing during the war?
Making uniforms, providing food, fighting and taking care of injured soldiers
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What are the two inventions Eli Whitney was known for?
Mass Production and the Cotton Gin
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What is the reason why many colonial farmers settled near oceans and coastal waterways?
Transportation of products was easier
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What was the group of people that were unhappy with the Constitution because it did not protect their rights?
African Americans
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What is the name of the man who used Math and Science to help plan the capital city?
Benjamin Banneker
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What is the law that stated American colonists must pay a tax on goods made from paper
The Stamp Act
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What was a machine used for cleaning seeds out of cotton, leading to a greater demand for cotton?
Cotton Gin
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This was the important factor in the growth of the United States
Louisiana Purchase
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What are the two groups that make up the US Congress?
The House of Representatives and the Senate
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What was the first permanent settlement in North America?
Providence
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What is what made King George become very angry and close the port located in Boston, Massachusetts
The Boston Tea Party
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What is Mass Production?
The process of making goods that are exactly alike.
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What is the name of the ruler that sold the land west of the Mississippi River, to the United States?
Napoleon Bonaparte
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What is the Bill of Rights?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution
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What are two reasons the English came to America?
Freedom of religion and stories of gold/riches
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What was the result of the French and Indian war that led to the American Revolution?
England decided to make the American colonists help pay for the war.
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