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Mr. Miklus' Mystery Category section for you to pass the test which is tomorrow!
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An Italian explorer who sailed West in search of a sea route to India.
Who is Christopher Columbus
100
Colony founded by Lord Baltimore.
What is Maryland
100
Name of the new sailing vessels which were faster and had triangular sails which could catch the wind.
What is the Caravel
100
The time period in which most of North America was covered in ice.
What is the Ice Age.
100
The cash crop that saved the Jamestown settlement.
What is tobacco
200
Daughter of the Powhatan Chief, I married John Rolfe and became a "celebrity" in Europe.
Who is Pocahantas
200
This regions colonies included New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
What is the Middle Colonies.
200
The exchange of animals, crops and diseases between the New World and the Old World.
What is the Columbian Exchange
200
The land bridge in which Asians crossed into North America.
What is Bering Land Bridge or Beringia.
200
The document signed by the Pilgrims agreeing to laws and regulations.
What is the Mayflower Compact
300
Founder of the Georgia colony.
Who is James Oglethorpe
300
Industries and occupations that related to the "sea."
What is the New England Colonies
300
English Explorer who searched for the Northwest Passage. A bay and a river are named after him.
Who is Henry Hudson
300
Canal builders who inhabited present day Central Arizona.
Who are the Hohokam
300
War fought between France and England and their Indian allies for supremacy in North America.
What is the French and Indian War
400
Puritan dissenter who was banished from the Mass. Bay Colony.
Who is Anne Hutchinson
400
This colony was a "buffer zone" between Spanish Florida. Its inhabitants included debtors and criminals.
What is Georgia
400
Disease that destroyed thousands of Native Americans brought over by the Europeans.
What is smallpox
400
Native tribes who lived on or near the Mississippi River made these unique Earthen structures in which important leaders were buried.
What a mounds or mound builders
400
Poor people who would work off their debt in the New World for a period of years.
Who are indentured servants
500
A Quaker who founded Pennsylvania.
Who is William Penn
500
This region included the Jamestown settlement as well as the Carolina's and Georgia.
What is the Southern Colonies
500
Three motivating factors during the Age of Exploration.
What is God, Glory, and Gold
500
Type of leadership in which decisions and property are owned by women.
What is Matriarchal leadership
500
The English proclamation that forbade colonists to cross over the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763