Early Colonies
After the Pilgrims arrived in North America, American Indians, living in areas of forests, helped them to provide for these three basic needs for survival.
What is food, clothing, and shelter?
LaSalle traveled this great waterway in North America.
What is the Mississippi River?
This was present in the early colonies because so many people from DIFFERENT countries were settling in North America.
What is diversity?
St. Augustine is located in this type of plain along this ocean. (2 answers)
What is coastal and Atlantic?
William Penn and Roger Williams would have welcome people from all types of this to their colonies.
These are the 2 main reasons early colonists came to North America.
What are religious and economic?
This state was named after the French King Louis XIV in 1862. (Bonus - not on test!)
What is Louisiana?
This group of people were brought to the colonies to work and made up half of all the colonists in North America.
Who are African slaves?
Colonists living in the Middle and Southern colonies made money growing and selling these in nearby town markets.
What are crops?
Colonists had to learn to _____ (adjust to) and _____ (change) the environment in order to survive.
What is adapt and modify?
This Puritan spoke out about how she truly believed and was banished from the Rhode Island colony.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
This explorer defeated the Aztec people in what is now this country. (2 answers)
Who is Cortes and what is Mexico?
This directional part of North America was most affected by the arrival of English colonists.
What is the east?
These are two of the fifty United States not connected to the main land. (Bonus - not on test)
What are Alaska and Hawaii?
In the Pledge of Allegiance, this object is used to symbolize the United States.
What is the flag?
William Bradford helped to write this early law-making document and celebrated the first of this yearly event with the American Indians. (2 answers)
What is the Mayflower Compact and what is Thanksgiving?
This explorer established this first European settlement in North America for Spain. (2 answers)
Who is Pedro Menendez de Aviles and what is St. Augustine?
This region of colonies attracted many Irish Whalers who had much monetary success hunting whales.
What are the New England Colonies?
Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa have good soil and land that are ideal for growing and raising these 2 things. This makes it a region good for this. (You must answer all 3!)
What are crops and animals? What is agriculture?
This opening part of the Constitution states one of the main reasons for our country's Constitution is to create a more perfect government.
What is the Preamble?
I am the founder of New York in 1664 and I am the founder of Delaware in 1704.
Who is Peter Menuit? Who is William Penn?
Economic motivations for Europeans to settle in the Americas were: 1. finding new routes to this continent;2. Finding these 2 things to take back to Europe. 3. Establishing colonies for this activity. 4. Searching for this shiny, precious metal.
What is Asia? What are plants and animals? What is trade? What is gold?
This law-making assembly was created in Jamestown in 1619 and was the first of its kind in an English colony. ____ ____ __ _____ (4 words)
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
These 3 geographic factors determined where colonists decided to settle.
What are climate, waterways, and landforms?
This document was written to address the colonists' complaints about the king.
What is the Declaration of Independence?