The main reason separatists left England and moved to New England
What is Religious Freedom?
100
The inhumane crowding conditions on slave ships, across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Middle Passage?
100
Colonists were unhappy with Britain because they were being forced to pay additional money on goods purchased
What is taxes?
100
The general of the Continental Army
Who is George Washington?
200
An imaginary line that separates the North and South pole
What is the Equator?
200
The plan of government designed by the Pilgrims on the Mayflower
What is The Mayflower Compact?
200
Slaves worked long hours in the field planting and picking this crop
What is cotton?
200
This pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, influenced many colonists to declare independence from Britain
What is Common Sense?
200
The "shot heard round the world" refers to this battle
What is The Battle of Lexington and Concord?
300
The East side of the Prime Meridian
What is the Eastern Hemisphere?
300
The first settlement in North America known as The Lost Colony
What is Roanoke?
300
a large area of privately owned land where crops were grown with the labor of workers or slaves who lived on the land
What is plantations?
300
65 delegates who acted as the new government for the colonies
What is the Second Continental Congress?
300
The battle known as the turning point of the Revolutionary War
What is The Battle of Saratoga?
400
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Artic Oceans
What are the 4 oceans largest to smallest?
400
The name of the three colonial regions along the Atlantic Coastline
What are the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies?
400
A sale in which slaves were sold to buyers who bid for them
What are slave auctions?
400
He wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
During the winter of 1777-1778, the men in Washington's army suffered from freezing cold and starvation
What is Vally Forge?
500
Coordinates geographers use to find locations on the Earth.
What is Latitude and Longitude?
500
The 13 English colonies in North America
What is Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
500
This was the path that slaves used to reach freedom
What is The "Underground Railroad"?
500
Congress voted to approve the Declaration of Independence on this day
What is July 4, 1776?
500
In 1783, the Revolutionary War ended with a set of agreements