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The region east of the Piedmont of North Carolina with the beach and the barrier islands
Coastal Plains
Mountains
New England
The Atlantic Ocean
The Region of NC that we live in. The land is flat.
Tennessee
Piedmont
The Mountains
Coastal Plains
The region to the west of North Carolina, Cold winters and a lot of Hills
Piedmont
Coastal Plains
The Graveyard of the Atlantic
Mountains
In colonial times this would be the area to the west of the Coastal Plains. The Great Wagon road went through here.
The Backcountry
The Trail of Tears
The Ohio River Vally
China
An imaginary line in between the Piedmont and the Coastal Plain
A Line
The Fall Line
The Proclamation Line
Parliament
The exact location of something
A Map
Relative Location
Absolute Location
A picture of a house
The location of something relative to another thing
Relative Location
Absolute Location
Coordinates
Congress
Physical Characteristics of Place (Select ALL that apply)
Landforms
Language
Climate
Religion
Human Characteristics of Place
Language and Religion
Wolves
Mountains
Climate
The interactions that humans have on the environment
HEI
Religion
Human Characteristics of Place
The 5 Themes of Geography
An area or a division of a place based on human and physical characteristics of that place
A Colony
Location
Region
HEI
The moving of humans and goods
The Columbian Exchange
Movement
Walking
The Graveyard of the Atlantic
Islands just off the coast of NC
The Barrier Islands
The Great Wagon Road
The Backcountry
The Coastal Plains
The nickname for the barrier islands because of all the shipwrecks
The Proclamation Line
The Coastal Plains
Blackbeard's Revenge
The Graveyard of the Atlantic
The widespread exchange of plants, animals, and disease between the old and new world
Movement
The Columbian Exchange
The Boston Tea Party
The Ocean
Being able to resist disease
Immunity
Medicine
Flu Shot
Being Rich
A division of a country separate from the country
Colony
State
Island
Ireland
A written contract written to the lords proprietors so they could run Carolina
Charter
Treaty
Agreement
Contract
The men who ran Carolina in colonial times
Lord's Proprieters
The Governor
The King
Hitler and The Nazis
A type of government with a king and/or queen as a ruler
Anarchy
Democracy
Communism
Monarchy
A form of government where people vote for their ruler
Democracy
Anarchy
Monarchy
The Columbian Exchange
A person sent by the king to run a colony
Governor
King
President
Regulators
An unofficial British policy where they do not enforce laws
The Quartering Act
Salutary Neglect
The Tea Act
Triangular trade
Also called the "Atlantic system" is the trade between Europe, Africa, and the New World of raw goods, manufactured goods, slaves, food supplies, and livestock
The Columbian Exchange
Movement
Triangular Trade
Barter
Ben Franklin’s plan that said colonies needed to join together to form a central government - Represented by the “Join or Die” flag
Albany Plan of Union
The Constitution
The Declaration of Independence
Halifax Resolves
A war between France and Britain in 1754-1763 over the Ohio River Vally, the effects were the proclamation line, taxation, and eventually the American Revolution (Known as The Seven Years War in Europe)
The Battle Of Alamance
The French And Indian War
The Regulator Movement
World War II
What is Grievance
A Complaint
Abuse of Power
Sadness
Taxes
Selling items to another country for profit
Import
Trading
Export
Tariffs
Buying goods from another country
Export
Import
Barter
Movement
Goods
Articles of trade
Good Deeds
The Atlantic Ocean
Arizona
An economic goal for a country - their trade should be as profitable as possible by exporting more than they import
Treason
Popular Sovereignty
Communism
Mercantilism
Not of one's native country
Foreign
Domestic
Of one's native country
Domestic
Foreign
Backcountry residents of NC who protested In the corruption of Backcountry Officials
Regulators
Patriots
Loyalists
Regulars
A person who leaves their native country and moves to another
Communist
Traitor
Immigrant
The Branch of the Government that makes laws.
Legislative Branch
The Executive Branch
The Judicial Branch
The Legislative Branch in Great Britain
Congress
The General Assembly
Parliament
The White House
The Legislative Branch in the US
Congress
Parliament
The Supreme Court
The General Assembly
The Legislative Branch in NC
The House Of Representitives
Parliament
The World Trade Center
The General Assembly
Persuading someone to do something by using force or threats
Bully
Coercion
Mean Person
Discipline
To refuse to buy a good or service
Boycott
Sell
Profit
Tyranny
To cut off supplies or communications to a particular area by force
Steal
Kill
Blockade
Boycott
To undo or take back
Coercion
Independence
Declare
Repeal
Required colonists to pay a tax on sugar and molasses
Sugar Act
Tea Act
Stamp Act
Coercive Acts
Required colonists to pay a tax on all paper used
Sugar Act
Intolerable Acts
Stamp Act
Declaratory Act
Required colonists to provide room and board to British Soldiers
The Boston Massacre
The Quartering Act
The Tea Act
The Coercive Acts
Parliament could require taxes as it saw fit
Coercive Acts
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Declaratory Act
Shut down NY assembly; imposed taxes on imports of glass, paints, paper, tea; established tax collectors
Tea Act
Townshend Acts
Intolerable Acts
Boston Tea Party
Colonists had to buy their tea from Britain. Low Costs but high taxes
Taxes
Tea Act
Edenton Tea Party
Stamp Act
Conflict between angry Colonists and British Soldiers over taxes, soldiers killed 5 colonists.
Boston Tea Party
The Regulator Movement
The Holocaust
The Boston Massacre
Group of Artisans and shop keepers rebelling against taxation in the colonies; responsible for the Boston Tea Party
The Sons Of Liberty
George Washington
The Continental Congress
Indians
Sons of liberty dressed as native Americans and dump tea into the Boston Harbor
Edenton Tea Party
Boston Tea Party
The French Revolution
The Tea Act
In response to the Boston tea party - closed Boston harbor, removed governor
The Intolerable Acts
The Stamp Act
The Townshend Acts
The Sugar Act
Organized by Penelope Barker to boycott tea and other British goods in NC
The Boston Tea Party
The Regulator Movement
The Edenton Tea Party
The French and Indian War
NC battle between Governor Tryon’s Militia and the regulators (1771) which ended the regulator movement
The Battle Of Alamance
The Battle Of Saratoga
The Battle Of Yorktown
The Battle of Cowpens
An order by the king for colonists not to settle past the Appalachian Mountains so as not to anger the natives
The Ohio River Treaty
The Proclamation of 1763
The Quartering Act
The American Revolution
Rights given to you because you exist: Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
The Bill of Rights
Newton's First Law of Motion
Laws
Unalienable Rights
Someone who supports the king of England. Also called Tories
Patriot
Loyalist
Nazi
A Communist
Someone who wants to break free from England. Known as Wigs
Patriot
Germans
Loyalist
Traitor
A name for British Soldiers
Redcoats
Fire Backs
Paul Revere
The King's Apples
What are Regulars? Choose the BEST answer
People in the backcountry of NC protesting government corruption
Soldiers
People that come to a place often
A size of a drink
A person who willingly goes against authority
Traitor
Rebel
Patriot
Loyalist
Ratify
To take back
To approve
To destroy
To correct
Information used to persuade someone to a particular belief. Used in the Holocaust and other wars
Propaganda
Political Cartoons
A Persuasive Book
Popular Sovereignty
Committing a crime against the government
Tyranny
Rebel
Traitor
Patriot
Abuse of power
Rebel
Tyranny
Democracy
Traitor
Volunteer Soldiers (Militia) who were to be ready at a minute’s notice
Quickmen
Secondmen
Minutemen
Readymen
A formal agreement between countries, used on multiple occasions to end wars
Treaty
Contract
Charter
Alliance
Forcible overthrow of one’s own government
Revolution
Revolt
Rebellion
Tyranny
The people are ruled the way they want to be ruled
Anarcy
Democracy
Popular Sovereignty
Salutary Neglect
The first constitution of the United States. It failed because it gave the states too much power.
The Constitution
The Declaration Of Independence
The Articles Of Confederation
"Common Sense"
A Pamphlet encouraging colonists to break free from England
Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"
Thomas Jefferson's "Common Sense"
The Articles Of Confederation
The Declaration Of Independence
A Document that declared the area of Charlotte Free
The Declaration Of Independence
Mecklenburg Resolves
Halifax Resolves
A document that declared all of NC free
The Declaration Of Independence
Halifax Resolves
Mecklenburg Resolves
A document that declared the colonies free
Mecklenburg Resolves
Halifax Resolves
The Declaration Of Independence
