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Geography
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100
These imaginary lines drawn on a map help to find specific location on the earth.
What is longitude and latitude?
100
This is the time in the history of our world that made it possible for the people from the continent of Asia to migrate to North America.
What is the Ice Age?
100
This was the first English settlement. It is an island off the coast of north Carolina and is now referred to as "lost colony."
What is Roanoke?
100
By the late 1600s, Britain, France, and Spain often fought one another to gain more territory around the world. In North America, Britain and France both claimed the Ohio River Valley which eventually led to this war.
What is the French and Indian War?
100
These were colonists who wanted independence from Britain.
Who are the Patriots?
200
These are 7 large land masses on the planet Earth.
What are continents?
200
This group of people live in a very harsh environment and are also known as Eskimos.
Who are the Inuit?
200
This was the first successful English settlement in America. The people hoped to make money by finding gold and other natural riches.
What is Jamestown?
200
This law prevented the colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
200
These were colonists who remained loyal to Britain.
Who are the Loyalists?
300
Cardinal points (N, S, E, W) and intermediate points (NE, NW, SE, SW) are found on an instrument for finding directions.
What is a compass?
300
These are changes in a way of life that allowed Native American Indians to survive in a particular environment.
What are adaptations?
300
This settlement was built a few years after Jamestown was settled in an area known now as New England. Most of these peole left England seeking freedom of religion.
What is Plymouth?
300
This law ordered colonists to provide a place to stay, food and other supplies to the British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
300
These colonists did not take sides when it came to whether or not they wanted independence from Britain.
Who are the Neutralists?
400
An imaginary line circles Earth halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole.
What is an equator?
400
The Inuit built houses out of snow and ice.
What are igloos?
400
This man was captured by some native Americans. At the moment that he was to be beheaded, Pocahontas laid her head on his. He believed that she saved his life, but historians think that he might have misunderstood the Native American ceremony.
What is Captain John Smith?
400
This law required colonists to pay a tax on printed papers.
What is the Stamp Act?
400
This man wrote one of the most important documents in American history: the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
The starting place for measuring longitude is an imaginary line and is 0 degrees.
What is the prime meridian?
500
This is a term referring to the Native Americans different ways of life.
What is cultures?
500
The Jamestown settlers never found gold, but a man named John Rolfe found a way to grow a sweet-tasting kind of plant that could be traded for money and supplies. It became Virginia's "gold."
What is tobacco?
500
This event took place as a result of growing tensions among the colonists and the British soldiers. On March 5, 1770, the bad feelings in Boston erupted into violence.
What is the Boston Massacre?
500
By early 1776, more and more colonists favored independence. Many of them were influenced by this booklet written by Thomas Paine.
What is Common Sense?