Colonial America
The number of British colonies in America
What is 13?
The document the Americans sent to Britain to "break up" with them
What is the Declaration of independence?
The first version of American government
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The process where water, wind, and ice move earth from one place to another
What is erosion?
What everything needs in order to move
What is energy?
The conflict fought between the British Colonies and the French and Native Americans
What is the French and Indian War/Seven Years War?
The laws the British passed that angered the colonists
What are the tax acts/intolerable acts?
The second version of the American government
What is the Constitution?
The process where wind, water, and ice break rocks into smaller pieces
What is weathering?
The relationship between force and speed
What is "greater force = greater speed"
The exchange of goods, resources, and people between America, Europe, and Africa
What is the triangle trade?
The man who wrote the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The leader of government the Articles of Confederation did not have
What is the president?
A large natural formation created by water erosion over millions of years
What is the Grand Canyon?
The exchange of energy between two objects when they are touching each other
The first colony in America
What is Jamestown?
The meeting where the colonial government created the Declaration of Independence
What is the Second Continental Congress?
The beginning of the Constitution that outlines the goals of the document
What is the preamble?
A natural disaster caused by the overflowing of a bodies of water due to heavy rain
What is a flood?
The factors that change how far something moves
What are force and weight?
The man who led a rebellion against the colonial government of Virginia
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
The battle where someone fired the "shot heard 'round the world."
What is the Battle of Lexington?
The three branches of government
What are the Executive branch, Legislative branch, and Judicial branch?
The method of preventing erosion that involves using large rocks to hold the earth in place
What is riprap?
The person who created the three laws of motion
Who is Isaac Newton?