Men in white Wigs
This group met as a result of the Intolerable Acts of 1774.
What is the Continental Congress?
This is a trait that helps an organism survive in a particular environment.
What is an adaptation?
This tax was passed into law by congress in 1791.
What is the Whiskey tax?
What are the 3 R's of conservation?
Reduce, reuse, recycle.
This zone is where you are when you stand on the rocks near the ocean shore.
What is the spray zone?
This document was drafted by 5 elected members of the Second Continental Congress declaring independence from the British Empire.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This type of pollutant waste includes cholera.
What is human waste?
This General lead the attacks on the French at Fort Duquesne.
Who is General Braddock?
During this war, Thomas Peters fought for the British and ultimately gained free passage to Sierra Leone in Africa for 1200 freed slaves.
What is the Revolutionary War?
This was the first attempt at self-government in the New World and at democracy.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
These were the 3 basic ideals that Thomas Jefferson focused on when drafting the Declaration of Independence.
What are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
What is natural selection?
This was signed recognizing that the 13 colonies in the New World were now recognized as one country that did not control land in Canada.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
During this event in 1794 western Pennsylvania revolted against the taxes imposed on their grain crops. They attacked federal tax collectors and burned one of their homes.
What is Whiskey Rebellion?
I can change my color to match my environment protecting me from predators.
What is camouflage?
This is why Washington stepped down as president after 2 terms.
Why shouldn't a president have no term lengths?
A peppered moth that lives in an area of light colored trees is exhibiting this type of favorable characteristic.
What is camouflage?
American Indians battled Americans over this land location during Washingtons second term.
What is the western frontier?
Washington's action that saved the entire army from being destroyed.
What is Washington's retreat?
These rocks do not have the right conditions for a fossil to form.
What are igneous and metamorphic rocks?
This Colonel set up blockades along creeks of the Cape Fear River to help win a huge victory for North Carolina.
Who is Colonel James Moore?
This is a location where many fossils have been found preserved by tar.
What are the La Brea Tar Pits?
Washington warned in his farewell speech for the country to be careful and not get into this type of alliance with a foreign country.
What is a permanent alliance?
This process includes Melting, Cooling, Eroding and Compacting.
What is the Rock Cycle?
Populations have variations, some variations are favorable, more offspring will be produced than will survive, those that survive will have the favorable trait, and population will change over time are parts of what?
What are the 5 principles of Natural Selection?