Geography
Vocabulary
First Americans
Exploration & Discovery
Colonial America
100
List the 5 themes of Geography
What are Place, Location, Human Interaction, Human Movement, Region?
100
Define nomadic.
What is roaming about from place to place, without a fixed pattern of movement?
100
When humans first arrived in North America (according to archaeological evidence).
What is about 30,000 years ago?
100
The country that funded Christopher Columbus.
What is Spain?
100
Man who left Massachusetts colony to found Providence.
Who is Roger Williams?
200
Is Washington D.C. a state?
No, Washington D.C. is a "federal district."
200
Define Quaker.
What is a person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony?
200
The region of North America where the Pueblo people build their cliff dwellings.
What is the Southwest?
200
Location of the Roanoke Colony.
What is North Carolina (present) or Virginia (at time of colonization)?
200
Western boundary of the 13 English Colonies.
What are the Appalachian Mountains? 100 bonus points if you can pronounce this correctly!
300
In what landform region is Albuquerque located?
What is Rocky Mountain/ Basin and Ranges?
300
Define precipitation.
What is the amount of rain, snow, hail, etc. that has fallen at a given place within a given time?
300
The tribe that wrote the Great Law of Peace.
What is the Iroquois?
300
The transfer of plants, animals, an diseases between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
300
A person who left England because of religious intolerance during the Colonial era.
What is a Pilgrim?
400
In what landform region is Washington D.C. located?
What is Coastal Plains?
400
Define charter.
What is a written contract issued by government giving the holder the right to establish a colony?
400
Wampanoag, Algonquin, Delaware, and Iroquois.
What are the tribes of the Eastern Woodlands?
400
Define the Middle Passage.
What is the middle leg of the triangular trade route - the voyage from Africa to the Americas - that brought captured Africans into slavery.
400
Name the woman who wrote the poem, "On Being Brought from Africa to America."
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
500
Who designed Washington D.C.?
Who is Pierre Charles L'Enfant?
500
Define slavery.
What is the practice of holding a person in bondage for labor?
500
Were outsiders welcome to join the Iroquois League?
Yes, if they followed specific rules set by the Iroquois Great Law of Peace.
500
This river was a major trade route during the Age of Exploration and Discovery - half of all trade took place on it.
What is the Mississippi River?
500
In which region of the 13 English Colonies is Washington D.C. located?
What are the Middle Colonies?
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