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JamestownJAMESTOWN
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AOIMMIGRANTNMEB

PYNIAEHSLAEFIJE

OODECLARATIONAD

LREDOXGHERFYUME

LKPYLJAKPBOETET

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Colonial America 35

Almanac A yearly book of calendars, weather forecasts and sayings. Franklin published Poor Richard's from 1732 to 1758.
Apprentice A young person who learned a trade, such as printing, by working for a master for several years.
Blacksmith A craftsman who heated iron and hammered it into tools, nails and horseshoes.
Boston Massachusetts port founded by Puritans in 1630, later the center of protest against British taxes.
Burgesses Members of Virginia's elected House, which first met at Jamestown in 1619.
Canoe A light, narrow boat moved with paddles, used by Native peoples and fur traders on rivers and lakes.
Colonies Settlements ruled by a faraway country. Thirteen on the Atlantic coast became the United States.
Compact An agreement. The Mayflower one, signed in 1620 by 41 men, set up self-rule at Plymouth.
Cooper A craftsman who made wooden barrels, the shipping containers of colonial trade.
Corn The Native American grain, also called maize, that kept the first English settlers fed.
Fur Trade The business of swapping European goods for beaver pelts, which drew French and Dutch traders inland.
Georgia The last of the thirteen colonies, chartered in 1732 and named for King George II.

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Colonial America, continued

Harvest The gathering of ripe crops. The Pilgrims and Wampanoag shared a feast after the one of 1621.
Hornbook A wooden paddle holding a printed alphabet sheet, used to teach children to read.
Indigo A plant grown for blue dye. Eliza Lucas made it a cash crop in South Carolina in the 1740s.
Jamestown The first lasting English settlement in North America, founded in Virginia in 1607.
Mayflower The ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to North America in 1620.
Meetinghouse The plain building at the center of a Puritan town, used for worship and for town business.
Middle Passage The Atlantic crossing on which enslaved Africans were carried to the Americas.
New Amsterdam The Dutch town on Manhattan Island that the English took in 1664 and renamed New York.
Penn William, the Quaker given land by King Charles II in 1681 for a colony named after his father.
Pilgrim One of the English settlers who crossed the Atlantic in 1620 to worship in their own way.
Plantation A large farm, mainly in the southern colonies, where cash crops were grown by enslaved workers.
Plymouth The colony the Pilgrims founded in 1620 on the coast of what is now Massachusetts.
Powhatan The name of the leader, and of his alliance of Algonquian-speaking peoples, living around Jamestown in 1607.
Puritan A member of the strict English Protestant group that settled Massachusetts Bay from 1630.
Quaker A member of the Society of Friends, the faith of William Penn.
Roanoke The "Lost Colony" of 1587 on an island off North Carolina. A supply ship in 1590 found it empty.
Settler A person who moves to a new place to build a home and live there.
Squanto A Patuxet man, also called Tisquantum, who showed the Plymouth settlers how to plant corn.
Tobacco The leaf crop that John Rolfe first grew for export in Virginia. It became the main cash crop there.
Town Meeting A New England gathering where local people vote on their own rules and budget.
Virginia The first of the thirteen English colonies, named for Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen".
Wampanoag The Native people whose leader Massasoit made a peace treaty with Plymouth in 1621.
Williamsburg Capital of the Virginia colony from 1699 to 1780, now a living history museum.

American Revolution 50

Adams John, the Massachusetts lawyer who argued for independence and became the second president.
Attucks Crispus, a sailor of African and Native descent, remembered as the first to fall in the Patriot cause, in 1770.
Betsy Ross Philadelphia flag maker. Family tradition, not records, says the first Stars and Stripes was her sewing.
Boston Tea Party The protest of December 16, 1773, when colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
Boycott To refuse to buy certain goods as a protest, as colonists did with British cloth and tea.
Bunker Hill The battle of June 17, 1775 near Boston, fought mostly on nearby Breed's Hill.
Concord Massachusetts town where militia turned back British troops at the North Bridge on April 19, 1775.
Continental The name of the Congress that led the colonies and of the army Washington commanded.
Cornwallis The British general who gave up his army at Yorktown in 1781.
Declaration A formal announcement. The one of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776.
Drum The instrument that beat out camp signals and marching time for soldiers of the Revolution.
Fife A small, shrill flute played with drums to signal and pace marching soldiers.
Flag On June 14, 1777 Congress chose one with 13 stripes and 13 stars for the new nation.
Franklin Benjamin, the Philadelphia printer and inventor who won French help for the Revolution.
Hancock John, president of the Second Continental Congress, known for his large signature on the Declaration.
Hessian A German soldier hired by Britain to fight in the Revolutionary War.
Independence Freedom from the rule of another country.
Jefferson Thomas, the Virginian who drafted the Declaration of Independence. He became the third president.
King George The third British monarch of that name, who reigned from 1760 to 1820 and lost the thirteen colonies.
Lafayette The young French nobleman who joined Washington's army in 1777 as a major general.
Lexington Massachusetts town where the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired on April 19, 1775.
Liberty Bell Philadelphia's cracked symbol of freedom, ordered from London in 1751 for the Pennsylvania State House.
Loyalist A colonist who stayed faithful to the British Crown during the Revolution. Also called a Tory.
Militia Citizens who train as part-time soldiers to defend their own community.
Minuteman A member of the colonial militia trained to be ready to fight at a minute's notice.
Molly Pitcher Nickname of a woman said to have carried water to soldiers at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778.
Musket A long gun loaded from the muzzle, carried by most soldiers of the 1700s.
Navy A fleet of warships and its sailors. Congress created the Continental one on October 13, 1775.
Paine Thomas, author of the 1776 pamphlet Common Sense, which argued for independence in plain words.
Pamphlet A short printed booklet, the quick way to spread an argument in the 1770s.
Patriot A colonist who supported independence from Britain.
Petition A signed request to a ruler. Congress sent King George III the Olive Branch one in July 1775.
Proclamation An official public order. The royal one of 1763 barred settlement west of the Appalachians.
Redcoat A nickname for a British soldier, from the color of the uniform.
Repeal To cancel a law. Parliament did this to the Stamp Act in March 1766.
Representation Having someone speak and vote for you in government. Colonists had none in Parliament.
Revere Paul, the Boston silversmith whose midnight ride in 1775 warned that British troops were coming.
Saratoga The 1777 American victory in New York that persuaded France to join the war.
Sons of Liberty A loosely organized, secret group of colonists who fought the Stamp Act and other British taxes.
Spy A person who secretly gathers information. The Culper Ring did this for Washington in New York.
Stamp Act The 1765 British law that taxed newspapers, legal papers and playing cards in the colonies.
Tax Money people must pay to a government. Colonists said only their own assemblies could demand it.
Ticonderoga New York fort captured in May 1775 by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys, with Benedict Arnold.
Traitor A person who betrays their own side, as General Benedict Arnold did in 1780.
Treaty of Paris The agreement of September 3, 1783, in which Britain recognized the United States as independent.
Trenton New Jersey town that Washington captured on December 26, 1776, after crossing the icy Delaware River.
Tyranny Cruel and unfair rule by one person or a small group.
Valley Forge Pennsylvania camp where Washington's army spent the hard winter of 1777 to 1778.
Washington George, commander of the army of the Revolution and first US president, from 1789 to 1797.
Yorktown Virginia port where a British army surrendered to American and French forces on October 19, 1781.

Constitution and New Nation 36

Amendment A change or addition to the Constitution. There have been 27 so far.
Anthem A nation's official song. The words of the US one were written by Francis Scott Key in 1814.
Ballot The paper or screen on which a voter marks a choice.
Bill of Rights The first ten amendments, ratified in 1791, which protect freedoms such as speech and religion.
Branches The three parts of the US government: legislative, executive and judicial.
Cabinet The department heads who advise the president. Washington's included Jefferson, Hamilton and Knox.
Capital The city where a government meets. Washington, D.C. has been the US one since 1800.
Capitol The domed building in Washington, D.C. where Congress meets.
Census The count of everyone living in the country, taken every 10 years since 1790.
Compromise A deal in which each side gives something up. The Great one of 1787 shaped the two houses of Congress.
Confederation A loose union of states. The Articles of this name were the first US plan of government, in force from 1781.
Congress The branch of the US government that writes the laws, made up of the Senate and the House.
Constitution The written plan for the US government, signed in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787.
Convention A large formal meeting. The one that wrote the Constitution ran from May 25 to September 17, 1787.
Delegate A person chosen to speak and vote for others. Fifty-five of them attended the 1787 Convention.
Eagle The bald one has appeared on the Great Seal of the United States since 1782.
Election A vote to choose leaders. US presidential ones are held every four years.
Federalist A supporter of the proposed Constitution between 1787 and 1789, such as Madison or Hamilton.
Fort McHenry The Baltimore fort whose flag, still flying after a British attack in 1814, inspired the national anthem.
Hamilton Alexander, the first secretary of the treasury, who wrote most of the Federalist Papers.
Inauguration The ceremony at which a new president takes the oath of office.
Jury A group of citizens who decide a court case. The Sixth Amendment promises one in criminal trials.
Justice Fair treatment under the law. Also the title of a judge on the Supreme Court.
Liberty Freedom to live as you choose. The Preamble promises to "secure the Blessings" of it.
Madison James, the Virginian called the "Father of the Constitution", who became the fourth president.
Mint A place where coins are made. The US one was founded in Philadelphia in 1792.
Monroe Doctrine The 1823 warning by the fifth president that Europe should found no new colonies in the Americas.
Oath A solemn promise. The words of the president's are set out in Article II of the Constitution.
Philadelphia The Pennsylvania city where both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed.
Preamble The opening sentence of the Constitution, which begins "We the People".
President The head of the executive branch. George Washington took the oath first, on April 30, 1789.
Ratify To approve officially. Nine of the 13 states had to do this before the Constitution took effect.
Supreme Court The highest court in the United States, set up under Article III of the Constitution.
Treasury The government department that manages the nation's money, created in 1789.
Vote To make your choice in an election or a meeting.
White House The president's home and office. John Adams was the first to live in it, in 1800.

Westward Expansion 43

Alamo The San Antonio mission where Texan defenders held out for 13 days in 1836.
Alaska Bought from Russia in 1867 for 7.2 million dollars. It became the 49th state on January 3, 1959.
Annex To add land to a country, as the United States did with Texas in 1845.
Bison The huge grazing animal of the Great Plains, hunted almost to extinction in the 1800s.
Boomtown A town that grows very fast, as mining camps did when gold or silver was found nearby.
Boone Daniel, the woodsman who blazed the Wilderness Road into Kentucky in 1775.
Cherokee A Native nation of the Southeast whose written language was created by Sequoyah.
Conestoga A heavy covered freight wagon, named for a river valley in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Cowboy A ranch worker on horseback who herded cattle on long drives to the railroads.
Cumberland Gap The mountain pass near where Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee meet, used by settlers heading west.
Erie Canal The 363-mile waterway, opened in 1825, that linked the Hudson River to the Great Lakes.
Expedition A journey made for a purpose, such as exploring and mapping new land.
Flatboat A raft-like boat with a flat bottom that carried settlers and their goods down the Ohio River.
Forty Niner A gold seeker who reached California in 1849.
Frontier The edge of settled land. After the 1890 census, officials said it no longer formed a clear line.
Gold Rush The race to California after a find at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848.
Golden Spike The last spike of the first transcontinental railroad, driven at Promontory, Utah on May 10, 1869.
Homestead A family farm. The 1862 Act of this name offered settlers 160 acres of public land.
Jackson Andrew, the seventh president, who signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830.
Lewis and Clark Leaders of the 1804 to 1806 expedition from near St. Louis to the Pacific coast and back.
Log Cabin A small house of notched tree trunks, quick to build on forested land.
Longhorn The tough Texas cattle breed driven north along the Chisholm Trail.
Louisiana The land west of the Mississippi bought from France in 1803 for 15 million dollars.
Mississippi The great river that marked the western border of the United States from 1783 until 1803.
Mountain Man A fur trapper and explorer of the Rockies in the early 1800s, such as Jim Bridger.
Oregon Trail The wagon route of about 2,170 miles from Missouri to the valleys of the Pacific Northwest.
Oxen The strong, slow cattle that most families chose to pull their wagons west.
Pioneer One of the first people to settle in a new region.
Pony Express Mail carried by relays of horse riders between Missouri and California, from April 1860 to October 1861.
Prairie A wide, flat grassland with few trees, like much of the Great Plains.
Reservation Land set aside by treaty or law for a Native American nation.
Rockies The mountain range that wagon trains crossed at South Pass in Wyoming.
Sacagawea The Lemhi Shoshone woman who traveled with the Corps of Discovery as interpreter, carrying her baby son.
Santa Fe New Mexico trading town at the end of a famous trail from Missouri, opened in 1821.
Sequoyah The Cherokee man who completed a writing system for his language in 1821.
Sod House A prairie home built from blocks of grassy earth, used where trees were scarce.
Stagecoach A horse-drawn coach that carried passengers and mail between towns on a set route.
Steamboat A riverboat driven by a steam engine. Robert Fulton ran a successful one on the Hudson in 1807.
Tecumseh The Shawnee leader who built an alliance of Native nations to resist US expansion. He died in 1813.
Territory Land that belongs to the United States but is not yet a state.
Texas An independent republic from 1836 until it joined the United States in 1845.
Trail of Tears The forced removal of the Cherokee and other nations to land west of the Mississippi in the 1830s.
Wagon A covered one, usually pulled by oxen, carried a family's goods across the plains.

Civil War Era 24

Abolitionist A person who worked to end slavery.
Clay Henry, the Kentucky senator called the Great Compromiser for the deals of 1820 and 1850 that put off a split over slavery.
Confederacy The 11 southern states that broke away from the United States in 1860 and 1861.
Debates Public arguments between rivals. Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held seven of them across Illinois in 1858.
Douglass Frederick, who escaped slavery in 1838 and became a famous speaker, writer and newspaper editor.
Emancipation The act of setting people free. Lincoln's Proclamation of it came into force on January 1, 1863.
Exodusters The name given to African Americans who left the states along the Mississippi River for Kansas in 1879.
Fifteenth The amendment, ratified in 1870, that says the right to vote cannot be denied because of race or color.
Gettysburg The Pennsylvania town of the July 1863 battle and of Lincoln's short address that November.
Hayes Rutherford B., the president who took office in 1877 and pulled the last federal troops out of the South.
House Divided Lincoln's speech of June 16, 1858, which warned that the nation could not last half slave and half free.
Impeachment A formal charge against an official. The House brought one against President Andrew Johnson in 1868, and the Senate vote fell one short.
Juneteenth June 19, the day in 1865 when freedom was announced to enslaved people in Galveston, Texas.
Kansas-Nebraska The act of 1854 that created two territories and let the people living there decide whether to allow slavery.
Land Grant A gift of public acres. A law that Lincoln signed in 1862 gave them to the states to pay for colleges.
Lincoln Abraham, the 16th president, who led the country through the Civil War.
Mason-Dixon The line surveyed from 1763 to 1767 on the border of Pennsylvania and Maryland. It came to stand for the divide of North and South.
Reconstruction The years from 1865 to 1877, when the South was rebuilt and the states that had left rejoined the nation.
Revels Hiram, the minister from Mississippi who in 1870 became the first African American to serve in Congress.
Springfield The Illinois capital where Lincoln lived from 1837 until 1861, the year he became president.
Stovepipe Hat The tall, straight-sided style that Lincoln made famous. He often carried letters and papers inside it.
Thanksgiving The November holiday. Lincoln proclaimed it for the whole nation in 1863, in the middle of the Civil War.
Tubman Harriet, who escaped slavery in 1849 and guided others north on the Underground Railroad.
Union The United States as one whole. In the Civil War, the states that stayed loyal to it.

Industry and Immigration 27

Angel Island The San Francisco Bay immigration station, open from 1910 to 1940, where many Chinese arrivals were held.
Anthony Susan B., who was arrested for voting in 1872 and spent her life campaigning for women's right to vote.
Assembly Line A way of building goods in which each worker adds one part as the product moves past.
Brooklyn Bridge The steel-wire suspension bridge over New York's East River, opened on May 24, 1883.
Carnegie Andrew, the Scottish-born steel maker who gave away most of his fortune, much of it to build public libraries.
Child Labor Work done by children in mills and mines. A national law of 1938 set limits on it.
Cotton Gin Eli Whitney's 1793 machine that pulled the seeds out of cotton fiber.
Edison Thomas, the inventor of the phonograph in 1877, whose lab made a long-lasting light bulb in 1879.
Ellis Island The New York Harbor station that processed about 12 million immigrants from 1892 to 1954.
Immigrant A person who moves to a new country to live.
Kitty Hawk North Carolina town near which the Wright brothers first flew on December 17, 1903.
Labor Union A group of workers who join together to ask for better pay, hours and safety.
Lowell Massachusetts mill town of the 1820s where young women ran the power looms.
Morse Code The dots and dashes of the telegraph. The first public message went from Washington to Baltimore in 1844.
Muckraker A journalist of the early 1900s who exposed unsafe factories and dishonest leaders.
Oil Drilled at Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859, it first lit lamps and later fueled cars.
Panama Canal The waterway, opened in 1914, that lets ships pass between the Atlantic and the Pacific.
Patent A government grant that stops others from copying an invention for a set number of years.
Roosevelt The family name of two presidents: Theodore (1901 to 1909) and Franklin (1933 to 1945).
Seneca Falls New York town that hosted the first women's rights convention, in July 1848.
Skyscraper A very tall building on a metal frame. Chicago's 10-story Home Insurance Building of 1885 was an early one.
Steel A strong metal made from iron, used for rails, bridges and tall buildings.
Steerage The lowest-priced, most cramped part of a ship, where poor emigrants crossed the Atlantic.
Telephone Alexander Graham Bell was granted the first US patent for it in March 1876.
Tenement A crowded city apartment building where many newly arrived families rented small rooms.
Urban To do with cities. The 1920 census was the first to find most Americans living in towns and cities.
Yellowstone The earliest of the United States' national parks, created in 1872.

Twentieth Century 32

Apollo The NASA program that landed the first people on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Armstrong Neil, the first human who walked on the Moon.
Civil Rights The rights of every citizen to equal treatment. A major Act of 1964 outlawed segregation in public places.
Code Talker A Native American soldier, often Navajo, who sent battlefield messages in his own language.
Dream In August 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. told a crowd of about 250,000 in Washington that he had one.
Dust Bowl The 1930s drought and wind storms that stripped the soil from farms on the southern Great Plains.
Freedom Riders Black and white volunteers who rode interstate buses through the South in 1961 to test the law.
Great Migration The move of about six million Black Americans from the South to northern and western cities, 1910 to 1970.
Harlem New York neighborhood at the center of a 1920s flowering of Black art, music and writing.
Hawaii The 50th state, admitted on August 21, 1959.
Home Front Life and work in the home country during a war, from factory shifts to scrap drives.
Integration Bringing people of all races together in the same schools and public places.
Interstate The national highway system approved under President Eisenhower in 1956.
Jazz The music born in New Orleans that gave the 1920s one of its nicknames.
Korea The Asian peninsula where US troops fought under the United Nations flag from 1950 to 1953.
Little Rock Arkansas capital where nine Black students entered Central High School in September 1957.
Montgomery Alabama city where a bus boycott ran from December 1955 to December 1956.
NASA The US space agency, which opened for business on October 1, 1958.
New Deal President Franklin Roosevelt's programs of 1933 to 1938 to create jobs during the Great Depression.
Normandy The French coast where Allied troops landed on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Peace Corps The volunteer program, started in 1961, that sends Americans to work in other countries.
Pearl Harbor The US naval base in Hawaii attacked on December 7, 1941, which brought the country into World War II.
Rationing Limiting how much sugar, gasoline or meat each family could buy during World War II.
Rosa Parks Her arrest on December 1, 1955 for keeping her bus seat began the Montgomery boycott.
Segregation The separation of people by race in schools, buses and other public places.
Selma Alabama city where the 1965 marches to Montgomery for the right to vote began.
Sit In A protest in which people take seats and refuse to leave, as four students did in Greensboro in 1960.
Space Race The contest between the United States and the Soviet Union to be first in orbit and on the Moon.
Stock Market Where shares in companies are bought and sold. Its crash in October 1929 began years of hard times.
Suburb A neighborhood of homes on the edge of a city. Many were built in the years after 1945.
Victory Garden A home vegetable plot planted to add to the food supply during the two world wars.
Voting Rights The Act of this name, signed in August 1965, banned the unfair tests that kept Black citizens from the polls.

How this list was compiled: 247 United States history words in 7 themed lists in date order, chosen and defined for this site. Dates, names and places in the clues were checked on 2026-09-19 against the English Wikipedia article for each entry, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase. Licence: own work

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Under Start from a list sit Colonial America (35), American Revolution (50), Constitution and New Nation (37), Westward Expansion (43), Civil War Era (24), Industry and Immigration (27) and Twentieth Century (33). Civil War Era leans on causes and aftermath, since the war itself has its own Civil War word search. The Constitution word search and the government word search go further than Constitution and New Nation.

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Colonial America 35

Colonial America, continued

American Revolution 50

Constitution and New Nation 36

Westward Expansion 43

Civil War Era 24

Industry and Immigration 27

Twentieth Century 32

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