Lost Colony
The Lost Colony was located in what present-day U.S. state?
North Carolina
The country the American colonies fought against during the American Revolution.
England (Great Britain)
The two regions of the United States that fought from 1861-1885.
The North and the South
The nickname for the stock market crash that marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
Black Tuesday
The attack on this U.S. naval base led America to enter World War II.
Pearl Harbor
The island the Lost Colony mysteriously disappeared from.
Roanoke Island
This famous event involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
Boston Tea Party
The president of the United States during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
Shantytowns/homeless camps Americans built; named after the president as a form of protest and hardship.
Hoovervilles
Group of African American pilots who fought bravely in World War II.
Tuskegee Airmen
The word carved into a tree that was the only clue left behind.
Croatoan
The document signed in 1776 declaring independence from Britain.
The Declaration of Independence
This document declared enslaved people in Confederate states to be free.
Emancipation Proclamation
This environmental disaster of the 1930s caused huge dust storms in the Great Plains.
Dust Bowl
Members of this Native American tribe used their native language to create an unbreakable code for military communication.
Navajo Code Talkers
The English explorer who helped establish the Roanoke Colony.
Sir Walter Raleigh
A protest of British Goods held by women in NC in 1774.
The Edenton Tea Party
The Southern states that left the Union were known by this name.
The Confederacy
The name of the protest in which thousands of World War I veterans marched to Washington to demand early payment of a promised bonus.
Bonus Army March
Posters used to boost morale and encourage support for the war effort.
Propaganda
This governor returned from England to find the colony gone.
John White
This 1765 law required American colonists to house and provide supplies for British soldiers stationed in the colonies.
Quartering Act
This famous battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War.
Battle of Gettysburg
President Franklin D. Roosevelt created this series of programs to help Americans recover from the Great Depression.
New Deal
This event on June 6, 1944, involved Allied troops landing in France.
D-Day