New Vocabulary
US Geography
Indian Regions
Revolutionary War Causes
Revolutionary War Events
100
It is a large farm where crops like tobacco and cotton are grown
What is plantation
100
There are these many original English colonies that became the first states of the United States.
What is 13
100
These Native Americans lived in teepees and hunted buffalo, which they used to eat and make clothes and houses. (Choose Plains, Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, or Southwest)
What is Plains
100
This law put a tax on tea.
What is the Tea Act
100
He was the top general of the American Continental Army.
Who was General George Washington
200
This is someone who loves their country so much they would fight and die for it. Benjamin Martin was one.
What is patriot
200
New York City was in this English colony.
What is New York
200
Native Americans in this cold region hunted many different animals, fished, and farmed. They lived in longhouses made of wood and the different Iroquois tribes formed a confederacy. (Choose Plains, Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, or Southwest)
What is Northeast
200
This act put a tax on sugar products.
What is the Sugar Act
200
This battle ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown (in Virginia)
300
It was the first English settlement in what is now the United States.
What is Jamestown
300
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire made up this colonial region.
What is New England
300
In this Native American region they built pueblo houses made of adobe, or clay, and grew corn, beans, in this dry land. The Navajo tribe had sheep they used for food and clothing. (Choose Plains, Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, or Southwest)
What is Southwest
300
This was when British soldiers fired on a group of American protesters killing five of them. American patriots used this incident to try and get American colonists angry at the British.
What is the Boston Massacre
300
What battle convinced the French to help the Americans in their war against Britain?
What is Saratoga
400
This is the right to belong to any religion. The Pilgrims wanted this in their Plymouth colony.
What is religious freedom
400
In this colonial region they grew cash crops like tobacco, indigo, rice, and cotton.
What is Southern Colonies
400
The Native Americans of this region fished and ate nuts and berries from the forest. They made totem poles with animal and human faces that showed their family history. (Choose Plains, Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, or Southwest)
What is Northwest
400
This was when American patriots dressed as Indians dumped tea into Boston harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party
400
What names did the American soldiers have?
What are Patriots, Continentals, or Colonials
500
This is an American who is loyal to England and no the revolution.
What is loyalist
500
Charleston or Charles Town was in this original English colony.
What is South Carolina
500
In this region, the Native Americans farmed squash, corn, and beans. The Cherokee tribe developed a written language. (Choose Plains, Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, or Southwest)
What is Southeast
500
These laws shut down Boston with British soldiers, took away Massachusett's government, made Boston pay for the King's tea, and made Bostonians give free food and housing to British soldiers.
What is the Intolerable Acts
500
What was signed on July 4th, 1775 during the beginning of the war?
What is the Declaration of Independence
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