Basic Info
The name of our online textbook.
What is ANCHORS
Number of the original colonies.
What is thirteen?
Famous Native American woman who saved Captain John Smith.
Who is Pocahontas?
The most important geographical feature when selecting land for a colony.
What is waterways?
Regions of NC
What is mountains, piedmont, coast?
Name the four southern colonies.
What is Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia?
Name of one of the forgotten wars in colonial times. When Britan and France fought over who would dominate North America.
What is the French and Indian war?
The region (of the 13 colonies) with the worse land for crops.
What is New England?
Caldwell County is in this region.
What is the mountains
Southern colonies were known for growing these crops which eventually became plantations.
What is tobacco, rice and corn?
In order to pay for the French and Indian war, Britain started to _____ the colonist.
What is tax?
The reason NC was not a great maritime center.
What is shallow and shifting coastal waters?
Or
The coast was not fit for harbors.
Native Americans.
Who were living on the land before America was discovered?
___________ were forced from their home country and made to work on plantations in the southern colonies.
What is slaves?
After Britain started taxing the American colonist and without representation from England, the colonist got very upset and started this famous movement.
What is the American Revolution?
The geographical feature along the Atlantic coast which greatly impacted economic growth of colonial commerce.
barrier reefs vast coastlines
rocky cliffs fertile soil
natural harbors
What is natural harbors?
He was an English adventurer and writer who established a colony near Roanoke Island, in present-day North Carolina. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London and eventually put to death for treason.
Who was Sir Walter Raleigh?
Reasons people came to live in the colonies.
What is freedom of religion, to make money, and forced by slavery?
The _________ in America laid the foundation for the religious, social, and political order of New England colonial life.
What are Puritans?
The region known for long winters.
What is New England or northern colonies?