Map Skills
Native American History
NC Regions
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Colonial Regions
100
Look at the map below. Look at the key. Based on this map, what North Carolina region has the highest concentration of hog operations?
What is the Coastal Plain?
100
This Native American tribe created one of the first Native American written languages (alphabets)
What are the Cherokee Native Americans?
100
This North Carolina region is shown in green
What is the Mountain Region?
100
A person/group who does not settle in one place. They move constantly to different places to hunt/gather. Many Native Americans were this.
What is a nomad?
100
This colonial region depended on the cash crop economy/plantation economy.
What is the Southern Colonies?
200
This type of map focuses on borders between states and countries. Shows land ownership.
What is a political map?
200
If a European settler was describing their opinions on Native Americans, they would likely use these adjectives.
What is dangerous, violent, savage, barbaric, unadvanced, unintelligent, primal, etc.
200
This North Carolina region is the most densely populated.
What is the Piedmont region?
200
This colonial settlement faced a horrible period known as the "starving times".
What is Jamestown?
200
This colonial region was founded mostly for religious freedom.
What is the New England colonial region?
300
This type of map focuses on natural features of the Earth.
What is a physical map?
300
Look at the image below. The arrows are representing...
What are migration patterns of early Native Americans?
300
Read the excerpt below:
"The mildness of the winters is particularly favorable. Even in the most rough parts, North-Carolina is not represented to be a stony country. The hills and mountains are often rich and fertile, and are said to be very seldom what is called barren, in the more northern states"
Based on this, what economic activities would be best suited for NC?
(Agriculture, lumber, fishing, or manufacturing?)
What is agriculture?
300
Indigo, rice, cotton, and tobacco are all examples of...
What are cash crops?
300
This colonial region had an economy dependent on growing staple crops, such as wheat and oats.
What is the Middle Colonies?
400
The purpose of this type of map is to tell a story.
What is a thematic map
400
Name one way European colonization impacted Native Americans
What is disease?
What is loss of resources?
What is war/violence?
Will except other answers...
400
This NC region is best suited for agriculture.
What is the Coastal Plain?
400
Describe what Native Americans believed about land ownership.
What is they did not believe in land ownership/everyone owned the land/no one owned the land?
400
This colonial region is home to Jamestown
What is the southern colonial region?
500
This map is an example of a...
What is a thematic map?
500
Name two reasons Native Americans lived near rivers and waterways
What is for transportation, trade, and resources?
500
One of the main economies of this region is the lumber industry.
What is the Mountain region?
500
Under the economic system of Mercantilism, the British did this to control the economy of the colonies.
What is by limiting trade with other countries/colonies?
500
This colonial region is home to Boston, Massachusetts.
What is New England?