From east to west, North Carolina's three main geographic regions are
What is the Coastal Plain, the Piedmont, and the Mountains
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Which people are known as the "Ancient Ones?"
Who are the Anaszi
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Ponce de León led an expedition to Florida in 1513 to
What is find the Fountain of Youth
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North Carolina's borough towns had the right to
What is send a delegate to the Assembly
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The first call for independence from Britain was the
What is Halifax Resolves
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Among North Carolina's many important natural resources one can list
What are trees
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Southeastern people valued quartz because they
What is believed its crystals foretold the future
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The Spanish king wanted to convert Native Americans in the Chesapeake Bay area to Catholicism because he thought
What is they would be more likely to support Spain against France
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1728, the border between Virginia and North Carolina was determined
What is the Crown wanted to buy North Carolina
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On September 23, 1779, the Patriots won an important sea battle. Who was the American commander of the Bonhomme Richard?
Who is John Paul Jones
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Precipitation in North Carolina
What is distributed fairly evenly throughout the year
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We know about early North Carolinians from the objects they left behind, from the stories of European explorers who met them, and from the native people's own
What is oral histories
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Which of the following is true of the Columbian Exchange?
What is Millions of Native Americans died from European diseases.
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Gibbs's Rebellion was fought over
What is the rightful governorship of Albemarle
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In the final battle of the Revolutionary War, French forces joined with the Americans to defeat Cornwallis. This battle took place at
What is Yorktown
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The Outer Banks are composed of
What are sandbars and barrier islands
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The native people of the Eastern Woodlands used a method to prepare land for farming called
What is slash-and-burn
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One of the main goals of European exploration was to
What is spread Christianity
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To help cover the costs of governing the colony, the Proprietors established a land tax called
What is quitrent
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Significant battles of the American Revolution took place in North Carolina between 1780 and 1781. The leader of the Patriots in the last battle at Guilford Courthouse was
Who is Nathanael Greene
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Which of the following has continued to reshape North Carolina's coastline?
What are winds
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In which culture region were homes commonly built of buffalo skins?
What is the Great Plains
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What was Pope Alexander VI trying to accomplish when he drew an imaginary line from north to south through the Atlantic?
What is to divide territories for exploration between Spain and Portugal
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The earliest political parties in Albemarle County were the
What is prerogative and popular
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On February 27, 1776, the first battle of the American Revolution in North Carolina took place at