Means to move from one place and establish a home in a new place.
What is migrate?
100
The famous Italian who spent 17 years in China, and whose stories inspired others to explore.
Who is Marco Polo?
100
Grown mostly in the southern colonies, tobacco, rice, sugar, cotton and indigo are also known as __________.
What are cash crops?
100
His best known proverbs like, "a penny saved is a penny earned" and "fish and visitors smell in three days" were said by this man.
Who is Ben Franklin?
100
Paul Revere, John and Sam Adams, George Washington and Sons of Liberty were all known as ______________ during the American Revolution.
What are patriots?
200
It is the word that describes the way Native Americans were able to survive in the various regions of North America.
What is adapt or adapting?
200
Brought over from Europe, this is responsible for killing 90% of the Native American population.
What is disease or small pox?
200
Signed aboard ship before the first English pilgrims landed in North America, this document was first to establish self-government in the colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
To make a formal demand or request.
What is a petition?
200
Issued by King George III, this stated that colonists could not move into the Ohio River Valley following victory in the French and Indian War.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
300
This region of North America was comprised of vast plains of grasslands. Also, home to the buffalo.
What is the Great Plains region?
300
These explorers and fur trappers explored and settled along the Mississippi River.
Who are the French?
300
This middle colony was established by Quakers, it's capital city means "brotherly love."
What is Pennsylvania?
300
Our U.S. Constitution borrowed ideas and concepts from the Magna Carta and this other early English document issued in 1689.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
300
The unjust use of government power is called ___________.
What is tyranny?
400
Because they lacked trees for building homes, the Native Americans in the pueblos of the Southwest made their homes of bricks made of this.
What is adobe?
400
The Spanish soldier-explorers who conquered the native peoples in Mexico and Peru.
Who are the conquistadors?
400
Tobacco made this colony a success, one of its' colonists married Pocahontas.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
400
Slaves from West Africa - traded for raw materials in N. America - traded for finished products in England - traded for slaves in West Africa. This is known as ____________.
What is triangular trade?
400
According to this law, colonists had to buy it and place it on all paper products such as newspapers, wills and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
500
This crop was the most important to Native Americans in the Southwest region. Sometimes even used in religious ceremonies.
What is corn or masa?
500
The Native American tribe that became bitter enemies of the French after hearing gun fire for the first time.
Who are the Iroquois?
500
This colony was also called the "debtors colony."
What is Georgia?
500
Beginning in the 1730's, this religious revival eventually inspired colonists to fight for their independence from England.
What is the First Great Awakening?
500
Organized to protest unfair taxes on a variety of items, colonists agreed to refuse to buy one or more goods from a certain source.