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This Act placed an import duty (tax) on luxury items, such as sugar.

What is the Sugar Act?

100
The control of a product or industry by one company.

What is a monopoly?

100
This Native American tribe was pushed into an area whose boundary roughly matches the Blue Ridge region.

Who are the Cherokee?

100
The six regions of South Carolina.

What are the Blue Ridge, Piedmont, Sandhills, Inner Coastal, Out Coast Plains, and the Coastal Zone?

100

The song "All Too Well" is performed by this famous singer-song writer off her album, Red.

Who is Taylor Swift?

200

This Act of 1765 placed a direct tax on all paper items like newspapers, books, and playing cards. 

What is the Stamp Act?

200

A person who remained loyal to Britain in the American Revolution.

What is a Loyalist?

200

This often happened when white settlers and Native Americans traded.

What is cheating?

200
This river forms the border of South Carolina and Georgia.

What is the Savannah River?

200

This submarine was the first ever used to sink in ship in combat. It sunk off the coast of Charleston in the Civil War.

What is the Hunley?

300

This Act gave the East India Trading Company a monopoly on a certain product. This Act is named after that product. Patriots in Boston threw this substance into the harbor in revolt. 

What is the Tea Act?

300

A second meeting of colonial delegates held in Philadelphia beginning in 1775. This group wrote the Declaration of Independence.

What is the Second Continental Congress?

300

This war was started by white settlers cheating Natives in trade, moving Natives off their land, and abusing Native women.

What is the Cherokee War?

300

This region has monadnocks.

What is the Piedmont region?

300

Luke Skywalker rides this species of animal on the ice planet of Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back.

What is a taun-taun?

400

This Act placed an import duty on tea, paint, lead, and glass. The Sons of Liberty boycotted all these goods in response to this Act.

What are the Townshend Acts?

400

A line drawn along the crest of the Appalachian Mountain chain. The territory west of the line was reserved for Indians. 

What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
400

This treaty established the boundary line between white and Indian territories in South Carolina.

What is the Treaty of Augusta?

400
Rain, sleet, snow, and ice are all forms of this.

What is precipitation? 

400

This is our state's current governor.

Who is Henry McMaster?

500

These Acts by the British closed off the Boston harbor, the city's economic lifeline. 

What were the Intolerable Acts?

500
An organization of men who resisted new British taxes and laws in the American colonies.

Who were the Sons of Liberty?

500
This modern day county in SC was left as a reservation for the surviving members of the Catawba tribe.

What is York County?

500

This river flows into Charleston's harbor and under the massive bridge in Charleston. It's named after one of the Lords Proprietors.

What is the Cooper River?

500

The little golden ball used to end a game of quidditch is called this. 

What is a snitch?