This site located on the Nottoway River in southeastern Virginia has evidence that humans lived here as early as 18,000 years ago and makes it one of the oldest archaeological sites in North America.
What is Cactus Hill?
100
This settlement was established as an economic venture of the Virginia Company.
What is the Jamestown Settlement?
100
These colonies were dominated by large landowners who relied on indentured servants and/or enslaved African Americans for labor.
What are the Southern Colonies?
100
Great Britain’s desire to remain a world power resulted in a conflict in the Americas with the French. This conflict was known as what?
What is the French and Indian War?
100
The U.S. Constitution never settled the legality of this issue, and ultimately it became a major cause of the Civil War.
What is slavery?
200
This group of American Indians lived in a heavily forested portion of the country known as the Eastern Woodlands.
Who are the Iroquois?
200
This colony was settled by separatists from the Church of England who wanted to avoid religious persecution.
What is Plymouth Colony?
200
People in this region specialized in fishing, shipbuilding, and making naval supplies, metal tools and equipment.
What are the New England Colonies?
200
These are ways that Great Britain financed the French and Indian War and paid for the maintenance of British troops in the colonies
What are taxes?
200
This is idea that individual states like Kansas and Nebraska could determine whether to join the Union as "free" or "slave" states.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
These people fished, hunted, and grew crops for food. They made clothing from animal skins and plants. They constructed shelters from resources found in their environment.
Who are the American Indians (Native Americans)?
300
This colony was settled by the Puritans to avoid religious persecution.
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?
300
This region consisted of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
What are the Mid - Atlantic (Middle) Colonies?
300
According to one of the key philosophies of the Declaration of Independence, government derives power from this.
Who are the people?
300
These four slave states – Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri – joined the Union during the Civil War.
What are the border states?
400
Canoes, bows, and spears American Indians made were examples of this kind of resource.
What are capital resources?
400
This settlement was originally started by Quakers, who wanted freedom to practice their faith without interference
What is Pennsylvania?
400
These residents of the colonies were men and women who did not have money for passage to the colonies and who agreed to work without pay for the person who paid for their passage.
What are indentured servants?
400
These are two leaders of the protest known as the Boston Tea Party when patriots threw a cargo of tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxes.
Who are Samuel Adams and Paul Revere?
400
This slave state became as state during the Civil War and joined the Union as the fifth border state.
What is West Virginia?
500
Explorers from this continent journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean to seek gold, spread Christianity, and spread their empires.
What is Europe?
500
Originally settled by people who had been in debtors’ prisons in England, people in this settlement hoped to experience economic freedom and start a new life in the New World.
What is Georgia?
500
The New England colonies reliance on the Southern colonies for crops and for forest products, and their reliance on livestock and grains from the Mid-Atlantic Colonies is an example of what concept?
What is interdependence?
500
One advantage that the colonists had in their fight for independence was support from this nation.
What is France?
500
This African American sailor who later became a Union naval captain, was highly honored for his feats of bravery and heroism during the Civil War. He became a Congressman after the war.