Basic Social Studies
Early America
Europe/Exploration
Colonization
Revolution
100
People, their environments, and their resources
What is geography?
100
Early civilization that arose in the Andes mountains
Who are the Incas?
100
European invention that helped spread the Renaissance spirit
What is the printing press?
100
The first English attempt to colonize America
What is Roanoke?
100
Colonial tax on molasses
What is the Sugar Act?
200
These show all of the Earth's surface much better than globes
What are maps?
200
Early civilization that arose in central Mexico
Who are the Aztecs?
200
A burst of learning through Europe that led to discoveries in science and advancements in the arts
What is the Renaissance?
200
The second, and eventually successful, English colony in America
What is Jamestown?
200
Colonial tax that angered colonists and led to the Boston Tea Party
What is the Tea Act?
300
These are used to find exact location
What are longitude and latitude?
300
A region in which people share a similar way of life
What is a culture area?
300
Europeans returning from these wars brought back scientific advancements
What are the Crusades?
300
Leader of the Jamestown colony who kept the colonists alive with his laws
Who is John Smith?
300
Event in Boston that left colonists dead and angry about the English controlling them
What is the Boston Massacre?
400
The study of what has happened in the lives of different people
What is history?
400
Conquistador who destroyed the Aztecs?
Who is Hernando Cortes?
400
First European to reach the Americas
Who is Leif Erickson?
400
The rival nations that fought for control of America
What are England, France, and Spain?
400
English punishment for the Boston Tea Party
What are the Intolerable Acts?
500
These scientists use artifacts in order to learn about the lives of past people
What are archaeologists?
500
Conquistador who destroyed the Incas
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
500
Led the expedition to circumnavigate the Earth but died along the way
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
500
Set of laws that controlled trade between the colonies and England
What are the Navigation Acts?
500
Meeting of the colonists where the decided to work together and resist the English laws
What is the First Continental Congress?
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