Men in white Wigs
This group met as a result of the Intolerable Acts of 1774.
What is the Continental Congress?
This time period is known for the worst mass extinction occuring.
What is the Paleozoic Era?
This tax was passed into law by congress in 1791.
What is the Whiskey tax?
What are the 3 R's of conservation?
Reduce, reuse, recycle.
This time period is when the first birds appeared.
What is the Mesozoic Era?
This document was drafted by 5 elected members of the Second Continental Congress declaring independence from the British Empire.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A pouched mammal that carries its young.
What are marsupials?
Napoleon forced this country to hand over territory in the southern part of North America.
What is Spain?
During this war, Thomas Peters fought for the British and ultimately gained free passage to Sierra Leone in Africa for 1200 freed slaves.
What is the Revolutionary War?
This was the first attempt at self-government in the New World and at democracy.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This is what the land that Thomas Jefferson purchased from the French in 1803 is known as in history.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
What is natural selection?
Washington warned in his farewell speech for the country to be careful and not get into this type of alliance with a foreign country.
What is a permanent alliance?
During this event in 1794 western Pennsylvania revolted against the taxes imposed on their grain crops. They attacked federal tax collectors and burned one of their homes.
What is Whiskey Rebellion?
Egg laying mammals.
What are monotremes?
This person was sent to negotiate with Napoleon on behalf of Thomas Jefferson.
Who is James Monroe?
A peppered moth that lives in an area of light colored trees is exhibiting this type of favorable characteristic.
What is camouflage?
American Indians battled Americans over this land location during Washingtons second term.
What is the western frontier?
The Geologic Time Scale uses this type of dating to determine age of rock layers and fossils.
What is Radioactive dating?
These rocks do not have the right conditions for a fossil to form.
What are igneous and metamorphic rocks?
This Colonel set up blockades along creeks of the Cape Fear River to help win a huge victory for North Carolina.
Who is Colonel James Moore?
What is the Cenozoic era?
The price that the colonies wanted to pay for New Orleans and Florida, and the price that Napoleon had them pay for ALL the French territory in North America.
What is 10 million and 15 million dollars? That's Over 250 million and 419 million in today's dollars.
Farmers controlled this and the nearby city so that they could easily transport their goods.
What is the Mississippi River?
Populations have variations, some variations are favorable, more offspring will be produced than will survive, those that survive will have the favorable trait, and population will change over time are parts of what?
What are the 5 principles of Natural Selection?