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Mixed Facts
100
This is the year that Columbus reached America. (1492, 1582, 1776)
What is 1492?
100
This Queen funded the trip that Columbus took with the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria.
Who is Queen Isabella?
100
This was the first Colony.
What is Jamestown?
100
This is land ruled by another nation. (colony, settlers, governor)
What is a colony?
100
Name 3 reasons the English people came to the New World: get _____, freedom of ________, better _____.
What is to get rich, freedom of religion, and better life.
200
This is the year that the English settled in Jamestown, VI. (1400, 1550, 1607)
What is 1607?
200
This King of France sent Jacques to America.
Who is King Louis?
200
Columbus crossed this Ocean to get to the New World:
What is Atlantic Ocean?
200
People who go to live in another place are called this. (colony, settlers, governor)
What are settlers?
200
The item that the colonists grew that was responsible for the first trade between the New World and England was a leafy plant called this:
What is tobacco?
300
This is the year the slavery started in Jamestown. (1492, 1619, 1960)
What is 1619?
300
This Indian taught the pilgrims how to plant corn and survive in early colonial times.
Who is Squanto?
300
Catholics first settled in this colony (clue: think of Jesus' mother):
What is Maryland?
300
These are added to food to improve the taste (Columbus wanted to got to India and China to get them).
What are spices?
300
The Spanish built many of these in the Southwest (missions, tee pees, totum poles)
What is missions?
400
This is the year the French and Indian War begins. (1754, 1776, 1800)
What is 1754?
400
This explorer set sail from Spain in 1492 to find gold and to become rich. He thought he was sailing towards Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
400
When he discovered the New World, Christopher Columbus was searching for a easier way to this country.
What is Asia?
400
To own and rule a country is to ________ it. (claim, govern, navigate)
What is claim?
400
These are the names of the 3 ships that Columbus sailed with to find the New World (Queen Isabella funded the ships).
What are Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria?
500
This country won the French and Indian War in 1763.
What is England?
500
This group of people did not like the Church of England; they started the Pennsylvania colony. (Pilgrims, Quaker, Dutch)
Who are the Quakers?
500
This was the second English town in the New World; where the pilgrims struggled that first winter and many died.
What is Plymouth, Massachusetts?
500
Early settlers called our country by this name.
What is the New World?
500
Two part question: (choices: Plymouth, Georgia, Jamestown) In what settlement did slavery first begin? In what settlement did schools first begin?
What is Jamestown? What is Plymouth?
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