Famous People
What explorer looked for gold in the southern part of the United States?
Hernando De Soto
What is the definition for the word colony?
A settlement that is ruled by another country.
What was life like for the pioneers who moved to the frontier?
Life was hard. Many pioneers faced bad weather, illnesses, accidents and other problems as they traveled.
Spanish
What explorer sailed from Europe to what is now the Bahamas?
Christopher Columbus
What is the constitution?
A written set of laws that tells how a government will work.
What happened first?
Explorers sailed from Europe to North America or American Indians built North American settlements
American Indians built North American settlements
How many original colonies were there?
13
I am the person who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
What is an explorer?
A person who goes to find out about a place
Europeans settled North American colonies or Pioneers moved to the western parts of the United States.
Europeans settled North American colonies
What are the 3 different regions for the colonies?
New England
Middle
Southern
What is a revolution?
A fight for a change in a government
Who are the colonies grouped the way they were?
The colonies were grouped by where they were located. The people in each region had their own lifestyle, traditions, and way of making a living.
A person who comes to settle in a country from somewhere else in the world.