Atlantic World
Early Colonial
Revolutionary America
Civil War
Miscellaneous
100

Where Columbus first landed in the New World. 

What is the Bahamas?

100

Island where many settlers in the Carolinas came from.

What is Barbados? 

100

The author of Common Sense.

Who was Thomas Paine? 

100

Event that officially triggered the Civil War.

What is Fort Sumter? 
100

Primary argument provided by Dred Scott. 

What was lived in free states? 

200

Driving force behind European nations to colonize North America. 

What was competition with each other? 

200

3 cash crops that Northern Carolina produced during early settlement years. 

What is tar, tobacco, and turpentine?

200

Prussian who assisted Washington at Valley Forge.

Who was Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben?

200

Who was the leader of the Confederacy? 

Who was Jefferson Davis? 

200

Civil War event that is credited with Lincoln's reelection in 1864.

What was the capture and fall of Atlanta? 

300
Disease that caused many fatalities in the Native populations. 

Smallpox 

300

Geographic center of British North America.

What is Philadelphia? 

300

Revolutionary War battle ending with the surrender of General Cornwallis. 

What was Yorktown? 

300

Northern democrats who supported the war. 

Who were copperheads? 

300

Early American leader considered Anti-Federalist.

Who was Patrick Henry? 

400

Economic philosophy that maximizes exports and minimizes imports. 

What is mercantilism? 
400

King who established restoration colonies in America. 

Who was Charles II? 

400

Who was an influential Enlightenment political philosopher? 

Who was John Locke? 

400

Woman who supervised nurses during the Civil War and went on to found hospitals serving those suffering with mentally illness. 

Who was Dorothea Dix? 

400

First European colony in North America. 

What was St. Augustine? 

500

A controversial figure who served as an interpreter to Hernan Cortes. 

Who was Doña Marina?

500

2 cash crops in Southern Carolina.

What was rice and indigo?

500

Justification for replacing the Articles of Confederation.

What was the central government was too weak and had too little power?

500

Last state to secede from the Union.

What was Tennessee? 

500

Law that had the greatest impact upon Africans in North America in the 1600s.

What was slavery as a hereditary condition? 

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