Chap 6 on 2/6 Flashcards
What is history learn through spoken stories
Oral history
Who were the first people to live in North America
Native Americans
What can people build to protect themselves from weather
Shelter
What is the oldest lasting European settlement in what is now the United States
St. Augustine
Who was in conflict at the Jamestown settlement
The English and the Native Americans
Who ruled the 13 colonies throughout most of the 1700s
Great Britain
What is money paid to the government when buying goods and services
A tax
What is a set of laws that tells how our government works and that guides our government to make decisions
The Constitution of United States of America
Pres. Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of our country by buying land in what
The Louisiana purchase
Why did pioneers head west
Because that area offered land and jobs
Who signed the emancipation proclamation to free enslaved people
Abraham Lincoln
Who came to the Americas from Europe to learn more about the land
Explorers
What was named after the king Louis the XV
The settlement of St. Louis
Who comes to live in a country from somewhere else in the world
An immigrant
What is it called when two parts of one country fight
A civil war
What is land that belongs to the government called
A territory
Who were the Native Americans
The very first people to live in North America
What does the term oral history mean
It means learn history through spoken stories
What is a tax
Money paid to the government when buying goods and services
What does the Constitution of United States of America Tell us?
how our government works and that guides our government to make decisions
When Pres. Jefferson bought Lands with the Louisiana purchase what did he do
He doubled the size of our country
What did the emancipation proclamation do
It for you enslave people and was signed by Abraham Lincoln
Where did the explorers come to to learn about the land
They came to the Americas from Europe
Who is the settlement of St. Louis name for
King Louis the 15th
