The middle region of NC that contains hilly terrain and the fall line.
What is the Piedmont?
100
The people who were in America first, who Christopher Columbus "found".
Who are the Native Americans?
100
This war lased 7 years. Caused by encroaching British colonists invading the natives land.
What is the French and Indian war?
100
British law that placed a tax on all printed goods.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
Meaning before the war.
What is the definition of "Antebellum"?
200
A river or stream that flows into a larger river or stream.
What is a tributary?
200
People who lived in America first. When Christopher Columbus thought he as in America.
Who are Indians?
200
Upperclassmen in colonial times, consisted of wealthy planters, merchants, ministers, royal officials, etc.
What is the gentry?
200
British soldiers killed 5 colonists due to the colonists teasing and throwing objects.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
Party of George Washington, John Adams, and Alexander Hamilton.
What is the federalist party?
300
Apples and Christmas trees are the two main _____ in this region
What are crops in the mountain region?
300
The disease the Europeans brought to America through multiple things such as blankets. Causes spotting on skin, deadly.
What is smallpox?
300
Main industries in these colonies were ship building and fishing. Very far north.
What are the New England Colonies?
300
Colonists that stayed loyal to the King and England.
What are loyalists?
300
_____ is king! This is a crop that creates clothing and blankets and such. Lot's of slaves were needed to harvest and plant this.
What is cotton?
400
A limiting factor in the mountain region that caused a slow in progression of society.
What is lack of transportation?
400
Native Americans believed there was one of these for each season and every living thing.
What are spirits?
400
The colony led by John White, abandoned for about 3 years, When White returned CRO was carved into a tree.
What is the lost colony?
400
Act which forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
400
Tax passed in 179. Farmers and protesters refused to pay the tax and attacked the tax collectors. This tax was also used as an example to show that the government had the right to create taxes for the greater good.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
500
Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Virginia
What are the states surrounding NC?
500
People that hunted large beasts and lived in a cold climate. They lived from about 20,000 to 8,000 BC. They were nomads who used large stone spear.
Who are the Paleo Indians?
500
An Englishman who surveyed some of Coastal NC. Co-founder of Bath and New Bern.
Who is John Lawson?
500
Americans needed to establish their own government so they wrote this document. The people wanted a republic. This document was basically a plan for the government.
What are the Articles Of Confederation?
500
A nickname for NC given because of NC's slow rate at which they industrialized. Based off of a story about a man who drank a magic brew and fell asleep for 20 years.