These people used the natural resources around them to adapt to the environment.
What are Native Americans
100
A group of people who was taken from their home and forcibly brought to the American colonies?
What are enslaved Africans
100
Paths that Native Americans took to their new homes in North and South America.
What are migration routes
100
a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, esp. equally undesirable ones
What is dilemma
100
Gave orders from across the Atlantic and caused colonist to protest
Who is King George the 3rd
200
These people sailed across the oceans in search of new lands.
What are Explorers
200
From 1763 to 1774, Britain passed several laws that affected the American colonies.
What are acts
200
The seven areas where Native Americans developed different ways of living.
What is Native American Cultural Regions
200
The land was not rich with gold. Instead, the water was dirty and salty. The land was not good for farming. And there were mosquitoes which carried malaria.
What is the Settlement of Jamestown
200
Act passed by the British Parliament forced colonists to provide British soldiers with food, transportation, and housing
What is the Quartering Act
300
A colonist who was undecided about independence from Britain.
What is neutralist
300
Countries and individuals who helped the Americans fight the British.
What are Allies
300
This Spanish soldier led an expedition in search of the mythical “fountain of youth.” He never found the magical waters. He did find what is now Florida and claimed it for Spain.
Who is Juan Ponce de León
300
The fight between Britain and the American colonies in which the colonies gained their independence.
What is The Revolutionary War
300
Document in which the American colonists explain their reasons for separating from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence
400
Writer from Massachusetts whose poems and plays cleverly attacked the Loyalists and encouraged many colonists to become Patriots
What is Mercy Otis Warren
400
Type of government in which the power is in the hands of the people
What is democratic
400
The first English settlement, which today is known as the "lost colony"
What is Roanoke
400
The forced relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
What is The Trail of Tears
400
The system that keeps one part of the national government from becoming too powerful
What is checks and balances
500
Group of delegates (representatives) that acted as the government for the American colonies.
What is Second Continental Congress
500
The Bill of Rights ensures that people suspected of crimes have basic rights, such as the right to a lawyer.
What is the rights of the accused
500
During the ________, when slaves didn’t understand what to do, or when they resisted, they were whipped, burned, and even killed.
What is the "breaking in" period
500
Many colonists became angry because they did not have any representatives in the British government to vote on laws, including those which created taxes.
What is taxation without representation
500
This amendment protects people from being put on trial twice for the same crime (double jeopardy). It also protects people from being forced to be witnesses against themselves