Vocabulary
People
Places
Native Americans
Odds and Ends
100
the freedom to govern oneself
What is independence?
100
people living in colonies
Who are colonists?
100
a settlement that is ruled by a faraway government
What is a colony?
100
used by Northeast Native American tribes to build their homes
What is wood?
100
Native American tribes of the Northeast used this to build their homes
What is wood?
200
an official statement of independence
What is declaration?
200
leader of the American Army during the Revolutionary War
Who is General George Washington?
200
a trading center where goods are put onto and taken off ships
What is a port?
200
Native Americans of the Northeast who lived inland
Who are the Iroquois?
200
the number of colonies the British were ruling by the year 1775
What is 13?
300
it was signed in 1783 to officially end the American Revolutionary War
What is a treaty?
300
the main author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
where the Puritans and Quakers came from to build settlements in the Northeast where they could worship freely
What is England?
300
Native American tribe of the Northeast who lived along the Atlantic coast
Who is the Algonquian tribe?
300
the dumping of tea into the Atlantic Ocean to protest higher taxes came to be known as this
What is then Boston Tea Party?
400
a group of governments that work together
What is a confederation?
400
English explorer of the Northeast coast
Who is Henry Hudson?
400
During colonial times, these were the three largest port cities
What are Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia?
400
Native American tribes of the Northeast worked together to grow corn, beans and this crop
What is squash?
400
the main reason for the American Revolutionary War was taxation without this
What is representation?
500
a major sudden change in government or in people's lives
What is a revolution?
500
Iroquois leaders who came up with a plan for peace
Who are Hiawatha and Deganawida?
500
in 1775 this is the Northeast state in which the American Revolutionary War started between the colonists and the British soldiers
What is Massachusetts?
500
Native American tribes of the Northeast gathered these wild foods
What are roots, nuts and berries?
500
the colonists defeated the British Army so this happened
What is the colonists formed a new nation?
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