BLACK HISTORY
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
13 COLONIES
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
VOCABULARY
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Proclamation signed by Abraham Lincoln.

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

1

Ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris.

What is the French and Indian War?

1

Returned to Roanoke in July of 1587.

Who was John White?

1

People who built the Tower of Babel.

Who were Noah's Descendents?

1

someone who is related to a person or group of people who lived in the past  

What is a descendant?

2

Items that were hard for runaway slaves to find.

What was food and water?

2

Capital of France during the French and Indian War.

What was Quebec?

2

Number of original colonies.

What was 13?

2

Called their god Ya ho waah.

Who were the Cherokee?

2

Able to reproduce.

What is fertile?

3

Group who tried to end slavery.

Who was an abolitionist?

3

Leader of the Ottawa people?

Who was Pontiac?

3

Commanded the 3 ships that sailed to Virginia with 100 men and boys. 

Who was Christopher Newport?

3

When did Christopher Columbus land in what would later become the United States?

He never did
3

A place for storing treasure. 

What is a cache?

4

Outlawed Slavery.

What is the 13th Amendment?

4

Forced the colonists to pay taxes on every piece of paper.

What was the Stamp Act?

4

Held captive by Chief Powatan.

Who was Captain John Smith?

4

The sea where Noah's descendants were believed to have come through.

What was the Bering Sea?

4

A scientist who deals with past human life.

What is an Archaeologist?

5

Used to help southern slaves escape.

What was the Underground Railroad?

5

Rode his horse to warn that the British was coming.

Who was Paul Revere?

5

Ship the Pilgrims travelled on?

What was the Mayflower?

5

Number of languages spoken in the California region.

What is over 100?

5

To gain political control over.                                                                                      

What is to colonize?


6

Worked for Hugh Auld and his wife in Baltimore.

Who was Frederick Douglass?

6

The attacks Pontiac did on both British forts and settlements.

What was Pontiacs Rebellion?

6

The first successful English colony in America.

What was Jamestown?

6

Place where Northwest coast natives got their food.

What was the sea?

6

A persons' ranking or state of being.

What is status?

7

People who helped slaves escape.

Who were Conductors?

7

Forced colonist to provide shelter and beds for British soldiers.

What was the Quartering Act?

7

Rescued John Smith by throwing herself across his body.

Who was Pocahontas?

7

The two mountain ranges that the Plateau tribes lived between. 

What are the Cascade and the Rocky Mountains?

7

A member of a league of persons parties or states.

What is a confederation?

8

Harriet Tubman's nickname.

Who was minty?

8

Insisted a tax be put on sugar.

What was the sugar act?

8

King James authorized this company to settle the new land.

What was the Virginia Company of London?

8

The lowest point of North and South America.

What Is Death Valley?

8

A ceremony or series of acts always performed the same way.

What is a ritual?

9

Triangle route of slave trade.

What was the Transatlantic Slave Trade?

9

Taxed items not made in the colonies.

What was the Townshend Act?

9

The first English settlement in America.

What is Roanoke?

9

The 5 civilized tribes.

Who were the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, and Cherokee tribes.

9

A person who comes to a country to live there.

What is an immigrant?

10

Act that allowed slaves to be taken from free states and returned to their owners.

What was the fugitive slave act?

10

Those who lived in the colonies and remained faithful to the Crown

Loyalists, Royalists, King's Men, or Torie

10

 Became chief of the Powatan people after Chief Powatan died.

Who was Opechancanough?

10

Crop the Cherokee grew 3 kinds of.

What is corn?

10

A fence made of poles to protect against attack.

What is a palisade?