N.C. Geography
This term refers to a specific area where the lay of the land and the habits of the people are much the same.
What is a region?
This term refers to the path which many natives were forced to take from east to west following the Indian Removal Act
What is the Trail of Tears?
This act required the colonials to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies.
What is the Quartering Act?
This document, written in 1787, is considered the "supreme law of the land" in the United States.
What is the Constitution?
This nickname referred to North Carolina's undeveloped, "comatose" state.
What is the Rip Van Winkle State?
A long ridge of sand or narrow island that lies parallel to the shore, this acts as a natural wall to protect the mainland.
What is a barrier island?
The scientific study of past human cultures and societies through the analysis of artifacts, structures, and remains.
What is archaeology?
This term refers to the extensive exchange of slaves, sugar, cotton, and furs between Europe, Africa, and the Americas that transformed economic, political, and social life on both sides of the Atlantic.
What is Triangle Trade / the Columbian Exchange?
This system allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches to prevent abuse of power.
What are checks and balances?
This 1800s belief held that Americans had the right to spread across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This geographical feature in Chatham County is rumored to have supernatural origins.
What is the Devil's Tramping Ground?
This tribe is local to Person and Halifax Counties, represented by some of our students and staff.
Who are the Sappony / Saponi?
This group, active in the 1760s and 1770s in the western parts of North and South Carolina, violently protested high taxes and insufficient representation in the colonial legislature.
This branch of government interprets laws.
What is the judicial branch?
This type of farm grows crops like cotton or sugar and often used enslaved people for labor.
What is a plantation?
This geographical feature marks the part of a river where it meets the sea, where fresh and saltwater mix.
What is an estuary?
The process of adopting the culture, customs, and practices of another group, often involving the loss of one's own cultural identity.
What is assimilation?
What is the French and Indian War?
This amendment protects against unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This yearly process can help keep soil fertile by switching out what's being planted in certain areas.
What is crop rotation?
This Appalachian root is harvested and sold for high prices in Asian markets.
What is ginseng?
The authority of a nation or tribe to govern itself independently, often in the context of treaties and self-governance.
What is sovereignty?
This was the first official call for independence from Britain, signed in North Carolina shortly before the Declaration of Independence was written.
What are the Halifax Resolves?
The belief that citizens should stay informed, vote, serve jury duty, and participate in civic engagement is known as this.
What is civic duty?
This term describes a lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern.
What is apathy?