A type of water that is part fresh water and part salt water.
What is brackish water?
100
An unfair preference or dislike for something
What is biased?
100
I was the first European baby to be born in the Americas.
Who is Virginia Dare
100
A westerner that wanted better control of North Carolina's government.
What is a regulator
100
The party that believed that the elite should rule, thought the government should have a strong central government, and wanted to aid businesses.
Who are the Federalists
200
The capitol of NC that is located in the piedmont region.
What is Raleigh?
200
The people who were indigenous to the Americas before the Europeans came. They are also know as Indians because, when the Europeans arrive in America, they thought they had landed in India.
Who were the Native Americans?
200
A member of the highest social class.
What is an aristocrat?
200
Herman Husband was a Quaker; who worked against the government.
Who was the leader of the regulators
200
It was what North Carolina was called in the early 1800's because, while the other states were having vast improvements, North Carolina did not.
What was the RIP Van Winkle state
300
The region in the middle of our state. It is the most densely populated and the most industrialized. The land here is hilly.
What is the piedmont region?
300
A European explorer who was one of the first to find the "new world" and terrorized the Native Americans in search for gold and a route westward from Europe to Asia.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
300
I relied mostly on the natives for help with the colony. But in a meeting with the chief Wingina and his advisers.
Who is the colonist's Governor
300
It was the gateway to the USA.
What is New York
300
A special nation which had a mandate from God to spread across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny
400
The western most region, closest to Tennessee. There is less farming here due to higher elevated land.
What is the mountain region?
400
A war between the Tuscarora Indians and the Americans where the Americans go through extreme measures to win the war. This war was caused by the Europeans pushing the Natives away.
What was the Tuscarora War?
400
I planned the 1st English endeavor to try to settle in the New World.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh
400
It was made by the Continental Congress and George Washington was made its leader.
What is the Continental Army
400
A battle where the US were victorious and Andrew Jackson becomes an overnight sensation.
What is the battle of New Orleans
500
A sub-region in NC that's closest to the Atlantic Ocean. There are lots of beaches and seafood in this are.
What is the tidewater region?
500
These are small, fast, light ships that fit enough goods to get from Europe to America.
What are caravels?
500
The date when White went back to America and the colonists were gone. All that was left was the word CROATAN carved on a tree.
When is 1560
500
A battle in which the patriots greased the bridge and removed planks to block the loyalists. When the Loyalists arrived the patriots opened fire on them.
What is the Battle of Moore's Creek
500
It was a primarily agrarian place and power belonged to the lower south. At this time cotton was the new cash crop.