Native Americans
What is a Native American?
The people who lived here long before the Americas were "discovered" by Europeans. Anyone who's ancestors are indigenous to America (A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America).
A ____ is someone who travels for a religious reason.
What is a pilgrim
Who was named the first president of the United States?
Who is George Washington?
Why did the colonists pick ____ to be the first president of the US?
He led the colonial soldiers in the American Revolution
What Native American Tribe was located in modern-day South Carolina?
Who are the Cherokee
How did geography affect the people who settled in an area?
-weather/climate
-soil/crops that could be grown
-access to water for food and trading goods
-type of wildlife available nearby (fish, deer, etc)
An Italian explorer hired by Spain to find a water route to Asia. "In 1492, ____ sailed the ocean blue"
Who was Christopher Columbus
A ____ is money paid to the government.
What is a tax
What was a Native American home that was longer than it was wide?
What is a longhouse
What three countries did we discuss that explored and colonized North America?
What is Spain, France, and England
This explorer sailed for Spain and led the first European Expedition to Florida. He searched for the Fountain of Youth.
Who was Ponce de Leon
To ___ means to settle land for another country.
What is to colonize
How did the Native Americans and Europeans view land differently?
Native Americans believed that no one "owned" the land while Europeans claimed land as territory. Native Americans also lived very simply off of the land and believed that if they treated nature well, nature would treat them well in return.
What are at least two reasons people came to explore new lands?
-to spread their religion
-to claim more land/spread their territory
-to access more resources/gold
This patriot went on a midnight ride to warn the colonists in Boston, MA that the British were coming.
Who was Paul Revere
What was the name of the war that the British and the Colonists fought for control over land?
What is the American Revolution
The first Thanksgiving is thought to have been held between what two groups of people?
The Wampanoag Native Americans and the Pilgrims in Plymouth, MA
Beginning the 1480s, explorers from Europe began to search for a water route to _____. First, they sailed around the southern tip of Africa. Then they sailed across the Atlantic Ocean. These Europeans landed in the Americas, settled the land, and traded with American Indians.
BONUS 100: Why were the people there called American Indians by some?
What is Asia or India
Christopher Columbus thought that he landed in India.
Sequoyah invented a _____ for the Cherokee language.
Why were the colonists upset with the British?
Taxation without representation... They were being taxed to raise money for Britain's debt after the French and Indian War but they had no say in the British government