Nativity- History Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Earth used to have just one large continent called | Pangea |
the land bridge that brought humans to the americas was called the | Beringia Strait |
humans are classified as | homosapiens |
the two branches of homosapiens are | chromagnon and neandrithals |
in 1492 _______ came to America | Columbus |
visited china and came back to Europe to persuade fellow Europeans to trade with china | Marco Polo |
King Henry VIII started the | Church of England |
King Henry VIII separated because he | wanted to divorce Cathering of Aragon |
Queen Elizabeth's cousin | James |
1st European settlement in America | Jamestown |
Jamestown was started in | 1607 |
1619 firsts for Jamestown | house of burgesses, 1st boatload of women, 1st boatload of African Americans |
divine right | when a ruler believes that his right and power to rule was from God |
Southern Colonies | Georgia, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina |
Middle Colonies | New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania |
New England Colonies | Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Conneticut, and New Hampshire |
the French and Indinan War was fought over | land |
The ___ Indians fought with the British | Iroquois |
_____ won the French and Indian War | British |
British have war costs therefore ___ | tax colonies |
three firebrands | Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine |
great orator | Patrick Henry |
great writer | Thomas Paine |
rebel rouser | Samuel Adams |
things that made the colonies mad | Stamp Tax, Tea Tax, and Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" |
"Shot heard round the world" | Lexington |
Green Mountain Boys Leader | Ethan Allen |
three goals of the Declaration of Independence | name natural liberties, tell George what he was doing wrong, declare independence from England |
first time colonists tried to make peace | Olive Branch Petition |
author of D. of I. | Thomas Jefferson |
British Generals | Lord Cornwallis, Billy Howe, Johnny Burgoyne |
famous French general | Marquis de Lafayette |
France joined the war after | Saratoga |
"Father of the Constitution" | James Madison |
1st president | John Handson |
first constitution for us | Articles of Confederation |
youngest Constitutional delegate | James Madison |
oldest delegate | Benjamin Franklin |
the southern states signed the constitution only because of the | Bill of Rights |
presidents 1-7 | Washington, Adams, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams, Jackson |
presidents 8-15 | Van Buran, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanen |
presidents 16-25 | Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland, McKinnley |
compromise for the incoming states | Missouri Compromise of 1820 |
Writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harrient Beecher Stowe |
trusted black man by Lincoln | Frederick Douglas |
Lincoln ran against | Stephen Douglass |
when lincoln was elected, the Southern states ___ | seceded |
1st republican president | Abraham Lincoln |
triumpherate | Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun |
Henry Clay | great compromiser (W) |
Daniel Webster | great speaker against slaver (N) |
John C. Calhoun | believed in States Rights (S) |
confederate general | Robert E. Lee |
underground railroad conductor | Harriet Tubman |
Stonewall Jackson died at | Chancellorsville |
battle fought in North | Gettysburg |
bloodiest battle of war | Antietam |
southern "gold" | tobacco |
constitution ratified | 1787 |
capital of the Confederacy and Virginia | Richmond |
president of the confederacy | Jefferson Davis |
___ surrendered to Grant | Robert E. Lee |
Lee surrendered on ___ at ___ | April 9, 1865; Appomatix Courthouse |
13th ammendment | no slavery |
14th ammendment | equal protection for all |
15th ammendment | everyone can vote |
Lincoln shot on | April 14, 1865 |
Lincoln shot by | John Wilkes Booth |
veto | president's power to reject a bill |
Freedman's Bureau | an organization formed to help rebuild the South |
radical | extreme |
presidential reconstruction | Johnson trying to rebuild south |
congressional reconstruction | soldiers sent south to help keep peace |
black codes | laws created to intimidate blacks |
immigrant | person from a foreign country |
civil rights laws | laws that said what was fair |
antebellum | time period after civil war |
carpetbaggers | people who went south to help |
Samuel Clemmens | Mark Twain |
Vanderbilt | railroad business |
Alexander Graham Bell | transfered sound waves |
Thomas Edison | light bulb |
Katy Stantin | Susan B. Anthony's sidekick |
J.P. Morgan | banker |
Carnigie | steel business |
Leland Stanford | transcontinental railroad |
Ida B. Wells | wrote about black equality |
Booker T. Washington | said blacks should compete in the white world |
W.E.B. Dubois | we should not compromise and follow our conscience |
Jim Crow | made up character used to dehumanize blacks |
Plecy vs. Furgison | separate but equal |
Rockafeller | oil business |
muckrackers | people who exposed wrongs in the U.S. |
WWI president | Woodrow Wilson |
pandemic disease | influenza |
prohibition | no drinking |
19th ammendment | women can vote |
Red Scare | U.S. afraid of communist Russia |
Charlse Lindbergh | first transatlantic flight |
musical genre purly American | jazz |
as an american country, what are five things to be ashamed of? | slavery, heroshima/nagasaki, grouping the Taliban with Muslims, use death penalty, and internment camps |
What makes you proud to be an American? | first democratic government, you can ammend the bill of rights, strive for equality for all, free public education, and we send aid to people in other countries to strive for world peace (e.g. food to Burma victims) |
women can vote in | 1920 |
judge who convicted Susan B. Anthony | Judge Ward Hunt |
WWI allies | Britian, France, Russia, Japan, and Italy |
WWI central powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey |
day after WWI called | Armistice Day |
Axis powers of WWII | Japan, Italy, and Germany |
WWII allies | United States, England, and Soviet Russia |
Pearl Harbor date | December 7, 1941 |
D-Day Date | June 6, 1944 |
one of first reformers of early Catholic church | Martin Luther, 95 thesis, protestants |
Magna Carta | treaty between kings and lourdes, 1215, after Big Schism |
king during Revolutionary War | King George |
who said "in the name of great Jahova" and then attacked Ticonderoga | Ethan Allen |
3 branches of government | legislative, judicial, and executive |
debates over representation solved with the | Conneticut Compromise |
did farming increase or decrease in US history | decrease |
Moby Dick by | Herman Melville |
On Walden Pond | Henry David Thoreau |
Lousana Purchase | 1803, Thomas Jefferson |
Dred Scott case results said | "slaves are property" and it led to the fugitive slave law |
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