Vocabulary 1
The written laws of a government that share the country's rights and beliefs of the group.
What is a constitution?
Native Americans lived in these, and they were longer than they were wide.
What are longhouses?
This explorer set sail for China in 1492, in search of spices and landed in Florida.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
A group of freshwater lakes in the Midwest that were useful to many early explorers - their initials- H, O , M, E, S.
What are the Great Lakes? ( Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake Superior )
The main reason the French set up St. Louis in 1760 was to establish a ___________ ______________.
What a trading post?
to work together
What is cooperate?
A person who travels for religions reasons.
What is a pilgrim?
English explorer William Bradford led pilgrims aboard this ship in search of religious freedom.
What was the Mayflower?
An ocean,in which all of the European explorers crossed to get to the east coast of the United States.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Native Americans helped the first settlers by teaching them how to __________ _____________.
What is plant crops?
A person who helps 2 individuals communicate due to different languages
What is an interpreter?
A Native american group that used the Pacific Ocean to their benefit.
Who are the Pacific Northwest Native Americans?
This French explorer and fur trader explored the Mississippi River, Great Lakes regions and the Gulf of Mexico.
Who is Robert de La Salle?
This river provided a means to travel, hunt and establish settlements- the 2nd longest river in the US.
What is the Mississippi River?
When the colonists won their freedom from the British, the new government would be run by ____ _________.
What is " the people"?
A settlement that has a church where religion is taught.
What is a mission?
Spanish towns created in the 1800's in California
What are pueblos?
This English sea explorer discovered several bodies of water and named them after himself. Hint: bay, river, strait- one of your classmates has his first name
Who is Henry Hudson?
An ocean on the west coast of the US- provided a great deal of food for many people- Pacific Northwest Native Americans
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Why did the people elect this man as 1st president of the USA in February, 1789? ( 3 reasons)
What is he lead them to a victory over the British, he helped write the Constitution and the people trusted his leadership?
Money people pay to the government.
What are taxes?
Christopher Columbus set sail for these in China
What are spices?
An English explorer founded Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. He left to get supplies in England, only to return to a vacant settlement.
Who is John White?
A large river that runs primarily east and west - the Native Americans, pilgrims and colonists would have used it here in the Indiana, as well as Ohio, Kentucky
What is the Ohio River?
The war that lasted 8 years and lead to the colonists' freedom from British rule and the beginning of the USA
What is the American Revolution?