Native Americans
American Revolution
Geography of NY
Colonial NY
Waterways
100
A wooden building that housed many Iroquois Native American families.
What is a longhouse.
100
The laws and people that rule a country, state or town is called
What is government.
100
An imaginary line that people agree on which divides one place from another
What is a border
100
The practice of making one person the property of another
What is slavery.
100
The beginning part of a river.
What is a source.
200
A group of Native Americans that mainly lived in northern and western parts of New York State.
What is the Iroquois.
200
A law in 1765 that placed taxes on items like newspapers and pamphlets.
What is the stamp act.
200
The study of earth
What is geography
200
People who gave part of what they grew to the owner of a manor to use their land.
What is a tenant farmer.
200
A large river in Eastern NY that flows into New York Bay. Mainly travels from Albany to New York City.
What is the Hudson River.
300
A group of Native Americans that mainly lived in what is New York City area today.
What is the Algonquins.
300
Colonists who where supportive of Great Britain and wanted to stay under their rule.
What is the loyalists.
300
The condition of the air at a certain time and place.
What is weather.
300
The person in charge of the colony.
What is the governor.
300
The body of water between long island and Connecticut.
What is the Long Island Sound.
400
The union the Iroquois groups created
What is the Iroquois Confederacy.
400
The person who wrote the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson.
400
The capital of New York State.
What is Albany.
400
Money people pay to the government so that it can perform services.
What is taxes.
400
A sheltered place where ships can dock.
What is a harbor.
500
was a string or belt made of small, polished beads
What is a wampum.
500
The final battle of the American Revolution which took place in Virginia.
What is the battle of Yorktown.
500
A city on Long Island Sound that was first settled in 1688 by the Huguenots.
What is New Rochelle
500
The right of people to print or tell news.
What is the Freedom of the Press
500
Land next to an ocean or a large lake.
What is a coast.
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