TRADITIONS, GEOGRAPHY AND EARLY HUMANS
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LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE
This Englishman sponsored the Roanoke colony.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
This agreement aboard the Mayflower helped establish self-government.
MAYFLOWER COMPACT
Britain gained land but also huge debts after this war.
The French and Indian War
This Pilgrim leader served as governor of Plymouth Colony many times and wrote about colonial life
WILLIAM BRADFORD
These early people survived by hunting animals and gathering wild plants and resources
HUNTER-GATHERERS
The mysterious word carved into a tree after Roanoke disappeared was this.
What do you think this word could have meant?
CROATOAN
Colonists were angry about this British law because it stopped settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
PROCLAMATION OF 1763
Communication groups that shared news about British actions
COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE
This man, often considered the first martyr of the American Revolution, was killed during the Boston Massacre after tensions rose between colonists and British troops in Boston.
Nomads often moved from place to place for this important reason.
This colony survived largely because tobacco became a successful cash crop there.
What is a cash crop ?
JAMESTOWN
A crop mainly grown to be sold for money
This Enlightenment thinker believed people had natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
JOHN LOCKE
This war between colonists and Native Americans became one of the bloodiest conflicts in early New England history.
King Philips War
This formerly enslaved writer described the horrors of the Middle Passage and later became an abolitionist.
OLAUDAH EQUIANO
These carved structures in Native American cultures were often used to represent family history, important events, beliefs, or ancestors.
TOTEM POLES
Colonists who worked for years in exchange for passage to America were called this.
INDENTURED SERVANT
This colonial assembly became the first representative government in the English colonies.
HOUSE OF BURGESSES
This economic system allowed countries to grow richer and more powerful by using colonies for trade and resources.
MERCANTILISM
This lesser-known Revolutionary rider traveled alongside Paul Revere to warn colonists that British troops were marching toward Lexington and Concord.
WILLIAM DAWES
This invisible line at 0° latitude divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
EQUATOR
Because of fertile soil and successful grain production, the Middle Colonies became known by this
BREADBASKET COLONIES
In Native American culture, this is an alliance of different tribes or nations working together under shared agreements or laws while each tribe still keeps its own leaders and identity
CONFEDERACY
This British law passed after the Boston Tea Party punished Massachusetts by limiting self-government and town meetings and decreasing jobs, and invading privacy.
This Jamestown colonist helped the colony survive by successfully growing tobacco as a cash crop.
JOHN ROLFE