Colonial Explorers
Causes of the American Revolution
Colonial Daily Life
Hard Times
in Colonial America
Writing about the Colonial Times
100
European explorers were determined to find a Northwest Passage to this continent.
What is Asia?
100
These are just some of the things that King George taxed to raise more money for England during colonial times. (Name at least 3!)
What are: official documents printed on paper, marriage licenses, stamps, tea, sugar, glass, lead, and paint?
100
Colonists heard their news from this person. He walked through the town ringing a bell. When people stopped to listen, he shouted out the news!
Who is the town crier?
100
The Native Americans and Enslaved Africans are two important examples of these.
Who are two groups of people that suffered greatly during the Colonial Times?
100
The number 5 (the introduction, 3 body, and the conclusion) represents this.
How many paragraphs are included in an informational essay?
200
With his three ships (the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria), this early explorer sailed in 1492 from Spain.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
This phrase was commonly heard among the colonists who believed King George's taxes were unfair and who wanted their voices heard! These Patriots would call out, "No ___________, without ___________!"
What is "No taxation, without representation!"
200
These were used to help colonists get from one colony to another, or simply to the other side of town. (Name at least 3!)
What are: ships/boats, horses, wagons, and stagecoaches?
200
This is another word for a large farm where cotton, sugar, tobacco, or rice was grown in the colonies. Many slaves could be found working on one of these all day with only short breaks from their master.
What is a plantation?
200
These are examples of different styles of informational writing. (Name at least 2!)
What are: chronological, compare/contrast, how-to, cause/effect?
300
Most Europeans hoped to find these things by sailing west! (You must get at least 2!)
What are: a Northwest Passage to Asia, gold, rare spices, new land, animal fur, knowledge about the world, and new places to spread their religion?
300
In 1770, 5 colonists were killed as a result of this violent event in Boston Square. What began with colonists yelling and throwing snowballs at British officers soon turned into gunshots fired by the British.
What is the Boston Massacre (1770)?
300
When they weren't working for their families, children of all ages would cram into this single-room building to learn reading, writing, and math (also known as arithmetic).
What is the schoolhouse?
300
Most importantly, colonists wanted THIS from the Native Americans so that they could create new colonies for their home countries. This is why so many Native Americans were forced to travel west.
What is the Native American land?
300
I can use these to separate different sections of my writing when writing about my Expert Topic.
What are subheadings OR subtopics?
400
Having sailed as far north as the North Pole in hopes of finding a Northwest Passage, this European explorer was eventually put on a boat by his crew and sent adrift, never to be seen again.
Who is Henry Hudson?
400
As part of his famous political cartoon, Benjamin Franklin showed a snake split into 13 parts, each part representing one of the 13 colonies. This phrase was written below to teach the colonists they had to stick together to fight England!
What is the phrase: "Join, or Die!"
400
Young people sometimes became these rather than going to school. They would study under a blacksmith or other craftsperson in order to learn and prepare to do that job on their own one day.
What is an apprentice?
400
In this famous war between England and France that lasted over seven years, the Native Americans joined France to defend their land. Unfortunately, England won, which forced Native Americans even farther West.
What is the French and Indian War OR the Seven Years' War.
400
Drawings, word banks, maps, text boxes, pictures, and captions are all examples of these. They help the reader better understand the information I wrote about.
What are text features?
500
As the first permanent English colony in the New World, the colonists living there suffered from starvation and attacks by Native Americans during the first few years.
What is Jamestown?
500
In 1775, during his famous midnight ride, Paul Revere rode his horse to these TWO towns, which later became the locations of the first battles of the American Revolution.
What are Lexington, Massachusetts and Concord, Massachusetts?
500
These were some of the most important jobs during colonial times because they provided many of the basic goods colonists needed to live . (Name at least 2!)
Who are: a blacksmith, craftsperson, woodworker, carpenter, trader/merchant, teacher, seamstress, and farmer?
500
These are just some of the rights that were taken away from enslaved Africans as a result of the slave laws that were passed in the colonies. (Name at least 2!)
What are: freedom, marriage, staying with families, owning property, and earning a break from work?
500
These are example of signal words I can use when writing chronologically. (Name at least 3!)
What are: first, next, then, later, on (specific date), during, and finally?
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