Key Terms
This word means to exchange goods or services without using money.
What is barter?
Boston is a _________.
a. city
b. state
c. region
a. city
Massachusetts has lots of physical features. Name five common features of New England.
Any five of the following:
Bay, beach, cape, dune, foothills, harbor, island, lake, marsh, monadnock, mountain range, peninsula, port, river, shoreline, swamp
This is a human feature that helps people get across rivers.
What is a bridge?
The state we live in now was named after this tribe.
What is the Massachusett tribe?
Many of the tribes lived in two types of homes, one during the warmer seasons and the other during the colder seasons. These homes were called.
What are wigwams and longhouses?
This term means someone related to a person who lived in the past.
What is a descendant?
Schools and cities are two examples of this.
What are human features?
This feature is where ships can load or unload goods. It is a human feature, but needs a natural feature to work.
What is a port?
Why do humans create human features?
To help them live on the land.
Our tribe lived mainly in what is now Rhode Island, but our land stretched into Massachusetts. We lived in this area for more than 30,000 years. We were known as powerful warriors and often would protect other small tribes for a price.
Who are the Narragansett tribe?
Many tribes knew the legend of the 3 sisters, which referred to these.
What are the crops beans, corn, and squash?
A feature or system that people have made is called this.
What is a human feature?
Northwest and Southeast are two examples of this.
What are cardinal directions?
This physical feature is a point of land that juts into a large body of water. Our largest one has lots of cod to caught.
What is Cape Cod?
Name four human features that were mentioned in our chapter.
towns, cities, tunnels, roads, shopping malls, stores, farms, suburbs, fishing villages, bridges
The name of our people means "People of the First Light." We became trading partners with the English settlers that came to Massachusetts and helped them survive.
Who are the Wampanoag Tribe?
Many tribes would craft small beads out of white and purple shells, which was called this.
What is wampum?
A group of people chosen to meet and make decisions is called this.
What is a council?
The Wampanoag and the Nipmuc are two examples.
What are North American tribes?
How would forests help people in Massachusetts thrive (live well) before European settlement?
Forests provided the Native tribes protection from the cold shore, as well as places to store their preserved food, places to hunt for new food, fresh water, and natural resources to keep warm.
After the European settlers came to North America, many Native Peoples died because of this.
What were new diseases?
We lived near where Boston is today. Women in our villages owned the fields and homes and helped the men and elders make decisions for the tribe.
Who are the Massachusett tribe?
By learning the stories of those who came before them, their descendents, Native Peoples are doing this today.
What is keeping their heritage alive today?
To do this, a person prepares food so it will last a long time without spoiling.
What is to preserve?
The region we live in is called this.
What is New England?
Water is an important physical feature to help people survive. Why is water needed to settle a new place?
Water provides something to drink, a place to find food, a way to travel, a way to keep clean, and even provides fun!
Captain John Smith the explorer named our region this.
New England
This person was the leader of the Wampanoag people when the first English settlers came to Massachusetts. He kept the peace for as long as he was alive.
Native people used almost every part of the animals they hunted. One way they did this was by using the smallest bones as needles and this for thread.
What are sinews, or tendons?
The region of New England consists of these six states.
What are Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut?
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine are four of them.
What are the states of New England?
How would harbors and bays help people in Massachusetts thrive (live well) before European settlement?
Harbors and bays provided a body of water on the coast, where people could find food, water, and other natural resources to live.
These are a few of the features that Captain John Smith noted which made him want to tell others about this region.
Many good harbors, many fish swimming around his ship, woods and hills to the west, villages of Native Peoples along the shore.
This tribe faced war with the powerful Iroquoi tribe as a result they did this.
They joined with other tribes to defend themselves against the powerful Iroquois. This is called a confederacy.
Native Peoples showed respect or honor in many ways to all living things by doing these things.
What is offering thanks, thanking the hunt, dance, play games, prayed, sang, and even feasts of Thanksgiving!