Where the hilly Piedmont land drops to the lower coastal plains.
What is the fall line?
100
Traded with the English and made gestures of friendship.
Who are the Algonquin Indians?
100
To stop buying something to make a point or statement.
What is a Boycott?
100
The Americans allies in the revolution. Helped the Americans by creating a blockade in the water to keep the British from leaving.
Who are the French?
100
Before the war.
What is the Antebellum?
200
The smallest of the three NC regions
What is the Mountains?
200
A method the Indians used to clear land/trees and help grass grow.
What is slash and burn?
200
They were the southern states/colonies.
What is Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia?
200
A group of states united under a weak central government.
What is a confederation?
200
The time when NC got lazy and was lacking transportation. A story about a man who drank a magic brew and fell asleep for 20 years.
What is the Rip Van Winkle State?
300
Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, Kentucky surrounded this state. Had the Outer Banks and use to be connected to South Carolina.
What Is North Carolina?
300
Organized the first English plan to settle the New World.
What is Sir Walter Raleigh?
300
They were the middle colonies/states.
What is Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire?
300
Where the first shot of the Revolution was heard.
What is Lexington?
300
He was president for six years. Looked forward to retirement after the the states ratify the constitution. In 1789, Electoral college (delegates from the state) chose him to become the first president.
Who is George Washington?
400
The Barrier Islands of the NC.
What is the Outer Banks?
400
Was captured by the Tuscarora Indians and they stuck splinters of wood on him and lit them on fire. He discovered New Bern and Bath.
Who is John Lawson?
400
Actions or words intended to provoke rebellion against government authority.
What is sedition?
400
Tensions rising, a scruffle with British soldiers turned into five colonists being killed. Paul Revere drew a picture of the event to make it appear as if the British soldiers had taken direct aim at the colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
400
Forcing or kidnapping American sailors to fight in the British navy.
What is impressment?
500
The wealthiest, most populated region, hilly, urbanized, and containing the state's largest cities.
What is the Piedmount?
500
An English leader who set up the sneak attack against the Wingina and the Algonquins.
Who is Ralph Lane?
500
To come to a common place or point.
What is converge?
500
Asked the king to protect the colonists rights which parliament seemed determined to destiny. King George III refused the petition and instead prepared for war, hiring more than 30000 Germans Hessians to fight beside British troops in America.
What is the olive branch petition?
500
The process before tobacco leaves can be smoked, they must be dried.