1st Americans
European Exploration
Colonies
Vocabulary
Parts of Speech
100
This was the continent where the first americans came from?
What is Asia?
100
This was the first English colony established in North America?
What is Jamestown?
100
New Jersey was part of this region during colonial times.
What are the middle colonies?
100
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
100
Words that describe a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
200
Due to environmental conditions, Native Americans adapted much different ways of life, or these?
What is cultures?
200
This sailor reached North America in 1492, mistakingly believing he had found India?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
Colonial Public Schools shared these two features with our ELA Lab classes.
What is reading and writing?
200
A new settlement or territory established and governed by a country in another land.
What is a colony?
200
A specific person, place, or thing.
What is a proper noun?
300
This was the way in which native americans changed to meet the needs of their new environment.
What is adapting?
300
This explorer wrote a book to talk about his travels to Asia and inspired many to try and find a route to Asia?
Who is Marco Polo?
300
This practice expanded throughout the thirteen colonies, especially in the Southern Colonies.
What is slavery?
300
An agreement that Pilgrims wrote and signed describing how they would govern themselves in the Americas.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
300
In the following sentence, what sentence is the verb written in. I will play football.
What is the future tense?
400
This enabled the Native Americans to settle in permanent villages.
What is farming?
400
One of the primary reasons for European Exploration to the Americas after they were discovered was?
What is profits/money/wealth?
400
This was the major reason why colonies in the New England, Middle, and Southern regions created different ways of life?
What is resources or geographies?
400
An item grown in large quantities on plantations and sold for profit.
What is a cash crop?
400
Fill in the blank with the correct pronoun: Mr. Rifkin asked the scholar to take out _______________ additional practice.
What is their?
500
How did the first Americans migrate to North America?
What is across a land bridge called Beringia
500
This was the goal of the first explorers that landed in North America?
What is to find a water route to Asia?
500
This feature made the Southern Colonies a lot different from the colonies in New England.
What are plantations?
500
The revival of religious feeling and belief in the American colonies that began in the 1730s.
What is the Great Awakening?
500
Pick out all the adjectives in the following sentence: Scholars wear school uniforms with white shirts, brown shoes, and tan pants.
What is school, white, brown, and tan?
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