Here are some important words/ phrases significant to the history of US.
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| 202636852 | Native Americans | These were the first settlers who crossed the Bering Sea. They settled and progressed separately. They were hunter-gatherers.The most advanced Native Americans were in the Central America: the Mayans and the Toltecs. The Southwest was more advanced than the East. | 0 | |
| 202636853 | Sioux and Pawnee | Nomadic Native American tribes who followed the buffalo herds. | 1 | |
| 202636854 | Pueblos | They lived in the southwest; they lived in multistoried buildings and developed intricate irrigation system for farming. | 2 | |
| 202636855 | Adena and Hopewell | They were mound-builders. | 3 | |
| 202636856 | Mississippian | They were mound-builders. They evolved in the Mississippi River Valleys. | 4 | |
| 202636857 | Iroquois | They formed political confederacy, the League of Iroquois, which withstood attacks from opposing Native Americans and Europeans in during Much of the 17th and 18th centuries. | 5 | |
| 202636858 | West Africa People | They were isolated from the rest of the world and had a simple, self-sufficient economy. They had a variety of political and religious cultures (Islam). They had a societal order, which, during times of dispute, was resolved by senior citizens. They traded slaves with the Potuguese. | 6 | |
| 202636859 | Norse Voyages | The Norse voyages went unnoticed by the Europeans. The hostility of Native Americans, poor lines of communication, climate cooling, and political upheavals in Scandinavia sequestered the Vikings from the rest of the world; hence, they had no way to spread the new about their discovery. | 7 | |
| 202636860 | Christopher Columbus | Sent by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain in 1492 for a voyage to Asia. But, Columbus mistakenly referred to America as The Indies. It is widely accepted that Columbus started a permanent relationship between Europe and the Americas. | 8 | |
| 202636861 | Conquistadores | They were men eager for personal glory and material gain, uncompromising in matters of religion, and unswerving in their loyalty to the Crown. | 9 | |
| 202636862 | Treaty of Tordesillas | This treaty divided the entire world along a line of Demarcation. Anything to the west belonged to Spain, and anything to the east belonged to Portugal. Spain was the real gainer. | 10 | |
| 202636863 | Encomienda System | To bring the ambitious conquistadores under the royal authority, the crown implemented this system. The monarch rewarded the leaders of the conquest with Indian villages. The Indians, who were cruelly exploited, provided labor tribute in exchange for legal protection and religious guidance. | 11 | |
| 202636864 | John Cabot | He was hired by Henry VII. He was told to explore the New World and the Arctic Ocean. He wanted to find a northwest passage to Asia. | 12 | |
| 202636865 | Amerigo Vespucci | He wrote on how he had reached America before Columbus. He convinced the German mapmakers, so the name America stuck to the New World. | 13 | |
| 202636866 | Reformation | Many Protestant sects broke away from Catholicism. Martin Luther started it by challenging the sale of Indulgences. He said that God taught through Bibles, not through the Popes. The English Reformation started when Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic Church because he was not allowed to divorce his wife. | 14 | |
| 202636867 | Martin Luther | He started the Protestant Reformation by protesting against the sale of Indulgences and then other doctrines. | 15 | |
| 202636868 | John Calvin | He started Calvinism in Geneva. He believed in Predestination. | 16 | |
| 202636869 | Calvinists | Followed the words of John Calvin and believed in Predestination. | 17 | |
| 202636870 | Huguenots | Calvinists in France | 18 | |
| 202636871 | Puritans | Calvinists in England | 19 | |
| 202636872 | Predestination | The belief that God has already decided whether you will go to Hell, Heaven or Purgatory. | 20 | |
| 202636873 | Henry VIII | He set off the English Reformation by breaking away from the Pope. He showed that a King could challenge a Pope and win. He helped centralize the English government and helped start English Nationalism. | 21 | |
| 202636874 | Act of Supremacy | It gave Henry VIII power over the Church of England. At the same time, he seized all the Catholic Church lands. | 22 | |
| 202636875 | English Edition of the Bible (1539) | Ordinary people could read the word of God for the first time. (vernacular) | 23 | |
| 202636876 | Spanish Armada | Spain's Philip II was fed up with England's arrogant Protestant queen, Elizabeth I. Severe storms wrecked the ships and Spanish hopes of Catholic England was obliterated. | 24 | |
| 202636877 | Colombian Exchange | the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa | 25 |
