USA History Flashcards

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Ship that transported the first English Puritans, known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth, England to the New World in 1620.

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The Mayflower

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The First European settlement in present-day U.S. territory.

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Saint Augustine

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The name of the colony established by the Pilgrims

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Plymouth Colony

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A Native American who taught the English settlers how to hunt, fish and plant corn.

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Squanto

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The Tea Party protest took place in

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Boston

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It was one of the thirteen colonies.

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Delaware

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This was the border between the British settled colonies and the native American territory before the American Revolution

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The Appalachian Mountains

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The first president of the United States

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George Washington

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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

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Thomas Jefferson

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Did Abraham Lincoln fight in the Revolutionary War?

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He did. True.

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