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Colonial History
Pre-Revolutionary War
Revolution
Geography
Ms. Cellanous
100

first permanent settlement by Europeans in what is now the USA

What is Jamestown?

100
Colonies first representative body.
What is the House of Burgesses?
100

First shots of the Revolutionary War fired here.

What is the Lexington Green?

100
Other than the state of Texas, is state is surrounded by water on all three sides.
What is Florida?
100

Element with Atomic # of 6?

What is Carbon?

200
European immigrants who agree to work for 7 years in exchange for passage to the Colonies.
What is an Indentured Servants?
200

English and French colonists fought over land that is now Ohio and western Pennsylvania.

What is the French and Indian War?

200

Name of holiday that celebrates the British Army abandoning the city of Boston in 1775.

What is Evacuation Day?

200
Name of the River that flows through Rochester, New York.
What is the Genesee River?
200

Direction of enemy's gate in the battle room in Ender's Game.

What is Down?

300
First people to occupy the Western Hemisphere whose respect for the environment led their way of life.
Who are the Native Americans?
300

Colonies existed to provide raw materials and markets to economically benefit Great Britain.

What is Mercantilism?

300

Adopted on July 4, 1776. Marks birth of U.S.A. as an independent Nation.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

300
Name of the Canal that flows through Rochester, N.Y.
What is the Erie Canal?
300

What word means both to cut apart and to stick together?

What is cleave?

400

Native American gov't. based in present day Upstate New York able to hold onto land against Europeans pressure for 200 years.

What is the Iroquois Confederacy?

400

Tax passed in 1764 by the British parliament on imports of textiles, wines, coffee and sugar to the 13 Colonies

What is the Sugar Act?

400

The German Soldier that helped Gen Washington train the Continental Army in modern European warfare.

Who is Baron von Steuben?

400

The natural barrier to western expansion of the first European settlers in the 13 Colonies.

What are the Appalachian Mountains?

400

Most populous city in North Carolina.

What is Charlotte?

500
Location where the Mayflower first dropped anchor in the New World

What is Provincetown?

500

Tax law on all commercial documents, playing card and dice produced in the 13 Colonies passed by British Parliament in 1765

What is Stamp Act?

500

City attacked by Washington's army on the day after Christmas 1776 after crossing the icy Delaware River

What is Trenton?
500

Three current U.S. States that used to be part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

What are Massachusetts, NH and Maine?

500

What is the term for a word that has two opposite definitions?

What is a contronym?