Government
This branch of government makes laws.
What is the Legislative branch?
This Native American region used tipis and followed buffalo
What is the Plains?
This event involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This map tool shows directions like north, south, east, and west.
What is a compass rose?
This region focused on trade and fishing.
What is New England?
This branch of government enforces laws
.What is the Executive branch?
This region built longhouses and lived in forested areas.
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
These two places were where the first battles of the Revolution were fought.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This map tool shows the distance between places.
What is a map scale?
This region is known as the “breadbasket.”
What are the Middle colonies?
This document explains the rules of the U.S. government.
What is the Constitution?
This region built homes from adobe in a hot, dry climate
What is the Southwest?
This phrase means colonists were taxed without having a say in government.
What is “no taxation without representation”?
This imaginary line divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This region had plantations and grew cash crops.
What are the Southern colonies?
This system prevents one branch from becoming too powerful by allowing each branch to limit the others.
What are checks and balances?
A group builds homes from snow and ice and lives in freezing temperatures. This is their region.
What is the Arctic?
This battle was important because it convinced France to support the colonists.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The United States is located in these two hemispheres.
What are the Northern and Western Hemispheres?
New England and the Southern colonies developed differently mainly because of this.
What is geography (or environment/resources)?
If the Supreme Court declares a law unconstitutional, this is an example of this system in action.
What are checks and balances?
A group moves often, hunts buffalo, and uses portable homes. This shows how this factor shaped their way of life.
What is the environment?
This was the main reason the colonists decided to fight for independence from Britain.
What is unfair taxation and lack of representation?
A settlement is built near a river to move goods easily. This explains why this geographic feature was important.
What are rivers?
A colony with rich soil and a warm climate is most likely to focus on this type of economic activity.
What is farming cash crops?