During the Ice Age, this strip of land connected Asia and North America.
What is the Bering Strait
100
This attracted many settlers to North America from Spain, England, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands.
What is trade?
100
A system for producing and distributing goods and services.
What is an economy?
100
This law angered the colonists who felt that since they were self-governed the government had to right to enact this.
What is The Stamp Law?
100
An organized group of people who share a view of what government should do.
What is political party?
200
Hunters migrated in search of food. What finally allowed them to become settled communities?
What is agriculture/growing crops and raising farm animals.
200
These colonies were established by England.
What is Plymouth and Jamestown?
200
The three regions of the 13 colonies established along the east coast in North America.
What is New England, Middle, and the Southern Colonies?
200
The Colonists who united against the British.
What is Patriots?
200
An important act where the United States bought all the territory that stretched from the Mississippi River was to the Rocky Mountains, doubling its size.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
300
The way of life of a group of people.
What is culture.
300
Pilgrims left England and came to North America for this.
What is religious freedom?
300
Large farms with many workers, often slaves, who lived on the land they worked.
What is plantations?
300
When the British marched to Concord to seize the militia's weapons, this started.
What is The American Revolution?
300
The people who explored and mapped the newly acquired land to the west.
Who are Lewis and Clark (with Sacagawea)?
400
This group of Native Americans hunted deer, bear, and beaver in the thick forests.
What is Eastern Woodland.
400
This Native American showed the Pilgrims how to grow corn, hunt, and fish.
What is Squanto?
400
The French and Indian War began when England, Great Britain, and American Indian groups claimed this land.
What is the Ohio River valley?
400
This document was written to explain why the 13 Colonies should be free from Great Britain's rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
During this era goods began being made by machine rather than by hand.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
500
A settlement far from the county that rules it.
What is a colony?
500
This was Virginia's first cash crop.
What is tobacco?
500
The largest number of enslaved people lived in here.
What is the Southern Colonies?
500
A government where people elect representatives to make laws and enforce laws.
What is a republic?
500
People who attacked slavery as an evil that must be ended.