Vocabulary
This was the name given to the land west of the Fall Line in colonial North Carolina.
Backcountry
This was the first successful permanent English colony in North America.
Jamestown
England's three expeditions to Roanoke Island where all organized by this nobleman.
Walter Raleigh
This tribe fought a war against Carolina colonists from 1711 to 1715.
Tuscarora
This man is responsible for beginning the war in North America in 1754.
George Washington
This is the name for the enormous exchange of foods, animals, plants, diseases, and ideas between the Old World and New World.
Columbian Exchange
This is the primary reason for the founding of both the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies.
Religious Freedom
This man was the official artist on the first two expeditions to Roanoke and the governor of the third one.
John White
This battle ended the Regulator Movement in colonial North Carolina.
Battle of Alamance
This law forbade American colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains following the French and Indian War.
The Proclamation of 1763
This group protested against high fees, fines and confiscation of personal property by corrupt public officials in colonial North Carolina.
Regulators
This document, drafted by the Pilgrims and their fellow shipmates, became the first written government document crafted in North America.
Mayflower Compact
This English privateer rescued the men of the second expedition after they attacked local natives and killed their chief.
Sir Francis Drake
This man was removed from the governorship of colonial Carolina for enforcing the Vestry Act.
Thomas Cary
Hostilities between these two groups of people led to the French and Indian War in North America.
French fur traders and English colonists
These laws forced colonists to trade goods directly to England using only British ships.
Navigation Acts
This region of Britain's 13 colonies was the most ethnically diverse and was the "breadbasket" of colonial America, leading the way in grain production.
Middle Colonies
These two men led the first expedition to Roanoke, which was a successful exploratory mission to locate a suitable place for a colony.
Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe
This man was arrested for leading a revolt against acting governor Thomas Miller in 1677.
John Culpeper
Although allied with the losers, this nation gained land west of the Mississippi River in the Treaty of Paris.
Spain
This law said that only those men who were members of the Church of England and swore allegiance to Queen Anne could participate in colonial Carolina government.
Vestry Act
This was the first representative government body in the whole western hemisphere, let alone the 13 colonies.
Virginia House of Burgesses
These two natives traveled to England with the first expedition to Roanoke.
Manteo and Wanchese
This man led the colonial militia against the Regulators in order to restore order to the backcountry in 1771.
William Tryon
This formidable coalition of American Indians were the only major group to side with the English in the French and Indian War.
Iroquois