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The First Americans
The Pilgrims
School Long Ago
Transportation
Communication
100
This is another term for American Indian.
What are Native Americans?
100
The Pilgrims arrived in America in this ship.
What is the Mayflower?
100
Children once wrote on these small chalkboards.
What are slates?
100
This was invented over 5,000 years ago. Without it we wouldn't have wagons, carts, trains, bicycles, or cars.
What is the wheel?
100
This was a much better version of the telegraph that was invented by Alexander Graham Bell over a hundred years ago.
What is the telephone?
200
This Native American tribe invented their own writing system, grew corn and squash, and welcomed visitors with the Eagle Dance.
Who are the Cherokee?
200
These are people who come to live in a new place.
What are settlers?
200
This is all the things people learn, including math, history, and reading.
What is education?
200
This is a new tool or way of doing something.
What is an invention?
200
These first appeared in the 1930's and allow us to watch the news, movies, and shows.
What are televisions?
300
This Native American tribe lived in what is now California. They left behind many cave paintings and built canoes to catch fish.
Who are the Chumash?
300
The Pilgrims originally came from this country.
What is England?
300
Children used to learn how to write on these boards which were made from a cow's horn.
What are hornbooks?
300
This creates power from boiling water. It made trains and faster ships possible.
What is the steam engine?
300
This was invented in the early 1900's and allowed people to listen to news and shows.
What is the radio?
400
This Native American tribe helped the Pilgrims after their first winter.
Who are the Wampanoag?
400
The Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth at the start of this season.
What is winter?
400
Many towns in America used to have one of these. They were often just one room and included children of different ages.
What is a schoolhouse?
400
Orville and Wilbur Wright invented this. The first flight was at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
What is the airplane?
400
This was invented in Europe about 500 years ago and made books and newspapers much cheaper.
What is the printing press?
500
The first Native Americans came to North America from this continent about 10,000 years ago.
What is Asia?
500
The Pilgrims and Wampanoag celebrated this at the first Thanksgiving feast.
What is the harvest?
500
This was a long feather that people used to dip into ink to write with like a pen.
What is a quill?
500
This is a high-speed train that floats on a track made of magnets. They have one that goes to the Shanghai airport.
What is a mag-lev train?
500
These orbit around the Earth and allow us to communicate with people around the world.
What are satellites?