L2: Learning about the past
What is the story of the past?
history
The first people to live in America are called _____
Native Americans or American Indians
What do you call a person who was first to travel to a new land?
explorer
_____ is a person who moves from one country to another.
immigrant
____ means a very long time ago
ancient
How many years is a century?
100 years
The leader of a Native American tribe is called ____
chief
Who are settlers?
People who make a home in a new place, following explorers
Why did pioneers move west in North America?
Own land, build homes, start businesses and farms
What are some tools the pilgrims used long ago?
plows, buckets, wood stoves...
What is a statue that honors a person or event?
monument
When people from Europe came to America, they fought the _____ people for their land.
Cherokee
______ lost their land when colonies were built.
Native Americans
Who helped to free the African American slaves in America?
Abraham Lincoln
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
What kind of graph shows the order in which events happened?
A timeline
The trail that the Cherokee people took to move west where many people died is called _______.
The trail of tears
How many colonies were there in North America?
13
The _______ has become a symbol of freedom for all Americans.
The Statue of Liberty
What did Thomas Edison invent?
light bulb, record player, etc.
Name 2 primary sources
photos, paintings, drawings, journals, letters, diary
Name 3 groups of Native American we learned about
Plains People, Pueblo People, Timucua People, Cherokee
Why did the colonists go to war with England?
England didn't want the colonists to be free. Colonists didn't want to give money to England.
_____ was a slave who escaped and help to free about 300 other slaves through the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
Is this sentence a fact or opinion? The telephone is the best invention
opinion