Regions of the US
This region of the US contains our state, California.
What is the West?
This word describes the lifestyle changes Native Americans made to better suit their environment.
What is an adaptation?
A settlement established in a new land, controlled by another country.
What is a colony?
The English colonies were divided into these 3 distinct sections.
What are Middle, Southern, and New England colonies?
What is God, Glory, and Gold?
This Region of the US contains the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific Coast, and the Grand Canyon.
What is the West?
This continent is where all Native Americans are said to originate from between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago.
What is Asia?
The transfer of people, plants, animals, and germs between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This colonial region features lush forests, and bountiful coastlines for harvesting wood, and seafood.
What is New England?
This crop became an extremely profitable export from the colonies.
What is Tobacco?
What is Cotton?
This region of the US contains many swamps, marshes, slow rivers, and fertile farm land.
This large, multi-tribe alliance of Native American tribes occupied areas around the Great Lakes, and North-Eastern US.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
The first English colony in the Americas that was never abandoned; remains populated today.
What is Jamestown?
Due to the large amounts of high quality soil, this colonial region's economy was almost entirely based on slavery.
What are the Southern Colonies?
At this time, most colonists believed in this government concept.
This region of the US is heavily forested, has many fast rivers, and the Atlantic coast.
What is the Northeast?
Although the Greeks are widely known to have been the first to use this type of government, some Native American groups independently invented it as well.
What is Democracy?
This English Colony was formerly named New Amsterdam when it used to belong to the Dutch.
What is New York?
This colonial region had natural harbors and a convenient location that allowed for easy shipping, contributing to the development of large cities that attracted craftsmen.
What are the middle colonies?
This colonial region featured religious tolerance and a diverse economy with many different industries.
What are the Middle colonies?
This region of the US has a humid climate with cold winters and tornadoes.
What is the Midwest?
This was the ultimate goal of the Iroquois Confederacy.
Unite nearby tribes to live in harmony with one another.
The marriage between these two people helped broker peace between Powhatan tribe and English colonists.
Who are John Rolfe and Pocahontas?
Due to the distance between the colonies and England, many colonies decided to do this to ensure the lawmakers had their best interests in mind?
What is voting?
Most colonists were uneducated, were a part of large families, and lived/ worked on this type of land.
What is a farm?