Transported by the Mayflower, they landed in Massachusetts Bay, in a region that would later be called New England.
Who were the Pilgrims?
100
Group that revolted the payment of taxes in order to build Tryon Palace.
Who were the Regulators?
100
President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
Civil Rights Speaker and leader assassinated in the 1960s. Led the first March on Washington.
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK)?
200
Artist, governor and settler of Roanoke Island.
Who is John White?
200
Known for his daring methods, this pirate's original name was Edward Teach.
Who is Blackbeard?
200
Leader of the Continental Army.
Who was George Washington?
200
President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
200
President of the New Deal Programs during the 1930s to help get American "back on her feet".
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
300
N.C.'s capital is named after this early colonizer of the state.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
300
Artisans took in this group of people, teaching them a trade in return for their labor.
What were apprentices?
300
Author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
300
President that intiated the Indian Removal Act, moving Cherokees westward on the "Trail of Tears".
Who was Andrew Jackson?
300
President of the U.S. during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who was John F. Kennedy (JFK)?
400
Two Native Americans that returned to England for a year learning about the European ways and allowing the Europeans to develop a viewpoint of the American Indians.
Who were Manteo and Wanchese?
400
This group were pacificsts, came to North America to escape war and religious repression, and settled in the area that is now Winston-Salem.
Who were the Moravians?
400
Author of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
400
Slave that sued to keep his freedom once he had moved with his owner to a free state.
Who was Dred Scott?
400
Symbolic female that encouraged women to take jobs during WWII.
Who was Rosie the Riveter?
500
The "virgin" Queen and financer of trips to the New World.
Who is Queen Elizabeth of England?
500
The only Lord's Proprietor that refused to sell his territory back to the King.
Who was Lord Granville?
500
George Washington's Secretary of the Treasury and leader of the Federalist Party.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
500
An extremely vocal abolitionist speaker who rebelled against slavery by escaping to the North and speaking out.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
500
President after JFK that signed the Civil Right Bill into law.