| A | B |
|---|
| founding of Plymouth, Massachusetts by Pilgrims | 1620 |
| Declaration of Independence signed | 1776 |
| U.S. Constitution | 1787 |
| First wave of immigration to U.S. | 1820 |
| Ellis Island immigration station opens | 1892 |
| John Adams | strong leader during Declaration of Independence, 2nd U.S. president |
| Benjamin Franklin | strong leader during U.S. Constitution, famous inventor, publisher, and diplomat |
| 9 out of 13 colonies were established in the Northeast | early 1700s |
| Why did the colonists decide to break ties with England? | unjust laws and unfair taxes |
| Massachusetts | first shots of American Revolution fired here, home of the strongest protests |
| Pennsylvania | Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution written here |
| Ocean that European immigrants crossed to get to U.S. | Atlantic |
| Reasons immigrants came to America | jobs, own land, and escape war and injustice |
| Ellis Island | huge immigration station in New York harbor |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Scottish immigrant, inventor of the telephone |
| Albert Einstein | German immigrant, one of the world's most famous scientists |
| Andrew Carnegie | Scottish immigrant, steel making process, world's richest man |
| Narragansett Way of Life | farmed, hunted, fished, and lived in cooperation for hundred of years in what is now Rhode Island |
| wigwam | cozy hut made of wooden poles covered with bark |
| sachem | Narragansett chief or ruler |
| Trade between Narragansett and Europeans | animal furs for glass items and metal tools |
| powwow | time for celebrating Native American culture |
| Roger Williams | peace keeper, earned trust of Narragansett and purchased land for Rhode Island colony |
| Iroquois Confederacy | strongest Native Amercian organization, made up of 5 Northeastern tribes |
| Abolitionist | reformer who believed that slavery should be erased or abolished |
| slave | a person owned as property by another person |
| Frederick Douglass | After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement |
| Susan B. Anthony | leader of thewomen's rights movement |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | organized the first women's rights convention |
| (1920) Nineteenth Amendement | part of the Constitution that gives women the right to vote |
| (1865) Thirteenth Amendment | abolished slavery in the United States |
