I am an a person who believed and worked for the abolishment of slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
100
Soil that was deposited by a river.
What is Alluvial?
100
Electric current produced from water power.
What is Hydroelectricity?
100
France, England, Spain
What is the name of one European country that colonized North America?
100
New York City.
What is the city of New Amsterdam currently called?
200
The fight between the north and south to end slavery
What is the civil war?
200
A longtime frozen ground having a temperature below 0 for at least two consequtive years.
What is Permafrost?
200
Flat or gently rolling areas of land.
What is a plain?
200
Spain
What is the name of the country who came to America looking for gold and silver?
200
Catholic/Christianity
What is the religion that Spain wanted to convert the nativies to?
300
The unfair treatment of a person, racial group or minority based on prejudice.
What is discrimination?
300
A river that flows into a larger river.
What is Tributary?
300
This covers almost half of Canada.
What is Canadian Shield?
300
Spain
What is the name of the country who conquered the Aztec and Inca Empire?
300
Men, women and childen held against their will; being made to work for no pay, and be beaten or tortued if they refused.
What is slavery?
400
The combination of previously racially segregated social facilities.
What is integration?
400
A cold, dry, treeless biome with little percipitation each year, short growing season, permafrost and winters as long as nine months.
What is Tundra?
400
Founded Feb. 12. 1909, this group is the nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization. It's goal is to ensure equal opportunity and conducting voter mobilization.
What is the NAACP?
400
France
What is the name of the country who colonized North America because of the great amount of furs they found there?
400
Harriet Tubman
What is the name of the leader of the underground railroad?
500
Formulating a negative opinion beforehand, based on inadequate facts.
What is prejudice?
500
A dry region on one side of a mountain range.
What is Rain Shadow?
500
A lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education, a decision that desegregated public schools.
What is Thurgood Marshall?
500
France
What is the name of the country that experienced peaceful encounters with the natives?