Matching Quizzes in the U.S. History Category

Example: When was the Boston Massacre?: March 5, 1770, What led to the Boston Massacre?: Sugar, quartering, stamp, and townshend acts, How many Bostonian colonists died?: 5, Slogan that colonists created: "No taxation without representation"

Example: He is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the twentieth century, and is frequently ranked as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time, earning him the nickname "The Greatest.": Muhammad ali , an American political scientist, diplomat, and major player in the decolonization process and the civil rights movement in the mid-twentieth century, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 : Ralph J. Bunche , a former professional basketball player in the United States who spent 20 seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA).: Kareem Abdul- Jabbar, From 1954 to 1976, he was an American professional baseball right fielder who spent 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).: Hank Aron

Example: 1st Amendment: This amendment includes the freedoms of speech, the press, religion, assembly and the right to petition the government., 2nd Amendment: This amendment gives us the right to bear arms., 3rd Amendment: This amendment gives us protection against housing soldiers in civilian homes., 4th Amendment: This amendment offers protection against unreasonable search and seizure and warrants without probable cause.

Example: A. An outdoor fire used for warmth or cooking: ___campfire, B. To move to a place and make it your home : ___settled, C. Things or places seen: ___sights, D. Feeling sorry about someone else's trouble or misfortune: ___sympathy

Example: An outdoor fire used for warmth or cooking: campfire, To move to a place and make it your home : settled, Things or places seen: sights, Feeling sorry about someone else's trouble or misfortune: sympathy

Example: oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement within the borders of the continental United States: St. Augustine, escaped persecution from King James I of England and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620: William Bradford , the defendant in the most famous of the trials intended to suppress religious dissent in the Massachusetts Bay Colony: Anne Hutchinson , leader of the Quakers who was given the state of Pennsylvania : William Pen

Example: Territory: A region of land; also a region designated by Congress and organized under a governor. , Diplomacy: The art of conducting negotiations with other countries. , Texas War for Independence : The 1836 rebellion of Texans against Mexican rule, that resulted in Texas becoming an independent nation. in , Mexican-American War: The war with Mexico from 1846-1847 that resulted in Mexico ceding to the U.S. a huge region extending from Texas to California.

Example: States had more power than the country..... "No king".: A weak national government., Congress could only ask states to help pay debts.... "please help pay".: Congress could not tax or regulate commerce amoung states, All states printed their own money and could only spend it in their own state.: No common currency, Neither size or population affected the number of votes a state representative had.: Just one vote per state, no matter the size of the state

Example: What are records made by people who saw or took place in an event?: Primary Sources, What are records generated by someone who did not experience an event first hand?: Secondary Sources, What is a territory controlled by another country?: Colony, A new community in a new place is called?: Settlement

Example: investors pool their money for a common purpose: Joint stock company, works for another in return for travel: Indentured servant, rights over English colonies in North America: proprietor, enomic system where nations increase their wealth: mercantilism

Example: investors pool their money for a common purpose: Joint stock company, works for another in return for travel: Indentured servant, rights over English colonies in North America: proprietor, economic system where nations increase their wealth: mercantilism

Example: Thomas Jefferson: Wrote the Declaration of Independence, George Washington: Leader of the Continental Army, Paul Revere: Created the engraving portraying the Boston Massacre, Thomas Paine: Wrote the pamphlet Common Sense

Example: The exposed land between Alaska and Siberia that served as a bridge between North America and Asia during the Ice Age: Beringia, a scientist who learns about earlier societies by discovering and studying physical evidence of their lifestyles: Archaeologist, An object made or shaped by humans : Artifact, A social and political institution developed during the Mississippian Indian period: Chiefdom

Example: Charter: Official document giving a person or group permission to do something. , Cash Crop: Crop grown to be sold for profit., Indentured Servant: Person who agreed to work for someone for a certain amount of time in exchange for the cost of the voyage to North America. , House of Burgesses: Law-making assembly in colonial Virginia.

Example: The exchange of plants, anunaks, diseases, and people across the Altantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas: Coloumbian Exhange, the treatment of people as property. People who are denied freedom in this way are said to be : Slavery, They introduced crops such as wheat and rice to these lands, as well as _______ animals like horses, cows, pigs and sheep. : domesticated, Spanish soldier-exokiresrs, especially those who conquered the native peoples of Mexico and Peru: Conquistadors

Example: to move rom one place and establish a home in a new place: Migrate, all of the physical surroundings in a place, including land, water, animals, plants, and climate: Environment, useful material found in nature, including water, vegetation, animals, and minerals: natural resource, a people's way of life including beliefs, customs, food, dwellings, and clothing: culture

Example: Company in which investors buy shares in exchange for part of any profits.: Joint stock company, Person who opposed war or violence.: Pacifist, To mistreat person or group because of their beliefs.: Persecute, Land owners of DUTCH colonies who ruled like Kings over large areas of land.: Patroon

Example: Elected representative to a Government in Jamestown.: Burgess, Document granting the right to form a colony.: Charter, List of laws to support a government: Constitution, Person who owes money.: Debtor

Example: Slave who sued for his freedom: Dred Scott, Law that banned slavery in states north of a set line: Missouri Compromise, 11 states who seceded from the Union: Confederate States of America, Rival of Abraham Lincoln, debated him several times: Stephen Douglas

Example: Slave who sued for his freedom: Dred Scott, Law that banned slavery in states north of a set line: Missouri Compromise, 11 states who seceded from the Union: Confederate States of America, Rival of Abraham Lincoln, debated him several times: Stephen Douglas

Example: Martin Luther King, Jr., is born in Atlanta, Georgia.: January 15, 1929, Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King, Jr., are married: June 18, 1953, Montgomery Bus Boycott: December 5, 1955-December 21, 1956, The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is founded and Dr. King is chosen president: January 10-11, 1957

Example: Who said, England is no longer my country, I am American.: Benjamin Franklin, What part of America is Sarah's father exploring?: Ohio Territory, Name another product that was unfairly taxed by Britain.: Stamps, What harbor was closed to punish the colonists for rebelling?: Boston Harbor

Example: First published, African American, female poet.: Phyllis Wheatly, Name the government establishment of England.: Parliament, Name the Kind of England during the time of the Revolution.: King George, Name the act passed allowing soldiers to live, eat, and sleep in the homes of colonists without pay?: Quartering Act

Example: person with no permanent home who travels from place to place: nomad, movement from one place to another: migration, skill of raising plants and animals for human use: agriculture, change the way one lives: adapt

Example: person with no permanent home who travels from place to place: nomad, movement from one place to another: migration, skill of raising plants and animals for human use: agriculture, change the way one lives: adapt

Example: continents: large pieces of land, North America: made up of three countries, South America: made up of 12 countries, community: a city, town, village or rural place that people live in.