History of the Americas Questions

The English made their first permanent settlement in ________________ in 1607.

The result of misplaced loyalty by colonists was raising political and economic tensions between an agricultural South dependent on ___________ labor and a more ______________ north.

The free open land that had been available and suitable for settlement was known as the __________ and was now fully settled

The Spanish came to the New World looking for ________________ and other tresures.

In 1565 the Spanish settled in ________________, the oldest permanent European settlement in the United States.

_____________ is the movement of peoples.

The colonists protests led to the ________________ (1775-1783) and the founding of the United States of America.

The _____________ came to the New World looking for fisheries and fur trade.

The United States is the third largest nation in ____________ and _____________ in the world.

The United States occupies ______________ of the land area of North America.

When Europeans started to explore what they called the "____________" the ___________ arrived first.

______________ is the movement of people going into a country.

The ______________ people were descendants of the ____________ nomads who migrated to the United States 13,000 years ago.

_______________ is also the movement of people leaving a country.

demoralized Southern civilians and was used by Southerners as an example of Northern tyranny

granted 160 acres of public land to settlers who would work the land for five years

turned the tide of the presidential election of 1864 between Lincoln and McClellan

involved the surrender of the Confederacy and the end of the war

was Robert E. Lee's last significant victory but resulted in Stonewall Jackson's death

allowed formerly enslaved African Americans to work as laborers or soldiers in the Union