5th grade Social Studies
Why were people taken from Africa to the colonies
To provide forced labor, especially on farms and plantations. Many were enslaved and forced to work without freedom or pay.
What does Brackish mean?
Describing an unusable water supply made up of salt water and fresh water mixed together
20x5
100
What is the name of the process plants use to make their own food using sunlight?
Photosynthesis
what has hands but can not Clap?
A clock
Was tobacco easy to grow in the colonies?
No. Tobacco required a lot of time, hard work, and labor to grow and harvest.
A group of representatives, chosen by white, property-owning men, who attended regular assembly meetings and made laws on behalf of the people in Jamestown Colony.
House of Burgesses
37x6
222
What is the adjective in this sentence?
The enormous elephant walked slowly through the grass.
Enormous
what has a neck but no head?
a bottle
What helped save the Jamestown settlement?
Growing and selling tobacco helped Jamestown become profitable. Food and supplies also helped the settlement survive.
A government that relies on strict military rules an consequences where one man has authority.
Junta
If Jacob has 48 apples and there are 6 people. How many apples will each person get.
8
What are the three branches of the United States government?
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
What is the only mammal that can truly fly
A bat
True or False: Most Jamestown colonists died during their first winter.
False. Many died during the first year, but most of the original settlers survived their first winter.
What is an Oligarchy
A system of government in which authority rests with a group of people.
True or False.
6x7=38
False.
42
A store sells notebooks for $4 each. If you buy 7 notebooks and pay with $40, how much change will you receive?
$12
What has lot's of keys but can not open a door
A piano
What did John Smith and John Rolfe do to help the Virginia Company?
John Smith: Provided leadership and encouraged colonists to work. John Rolfe: Helped make tobacco a profitable cash crop.
A system of government in which the people choose representatives to make laws for them; the rule of law is established, and every person is equally accountable.
Representative democracy
A school has 24 classrooms. Each classroom has 18 chairs.
How many chairs are there altogether?
432 chairs (24 × 18 = 432)
I am a three-digit number. My hundreds digit is 4, my tens digit is twice my hundreds digit, and my ones digit is 3 less than my tens digit. What number am I?
485
what can travel all around the world but stay in one corner
A postage stamp