Historical Thinking skills
Early Colonies
Cabeza de Vaca
Exploration
100

The who, what, when, and where of a document.

What is sourcing?

100

The concept that the purpose of a colony is to provide an economic benefit to the mother country. 

What is Mercantilism?

100

The country Cabeza de Vaca came from.

What is Spain?

100

The year Christopher Columbus "sailed the ocean blue".

What is 1492?

200

When you use reading strategies to identify the claims and reasoning that the author makes.

What is close reading?

200

This group of colonies was founded partly for religious freedom and led to the America that we know of today.

What is the English?

200

The amount of hurricanes Cabeza encountered on his journey.

What is three?

200

The reason Christopher Columbus "found" the American continent.

What is looking for trade route to Asia?

300

The typical order of the Historical Thinking Skills.

What is sourcing, contextualization, corroboration, and close reading. 

300

The French relied on this activity to help sustain the original Canadian Colonies. 

What is the Beaver Fur Trade?

300
The location Cabeza first landed in the North American Conitinent. 

What is Tampa Bay?

300

The name of the new global trade network brought about by the finding of the New World.

What is the Columbian Exchange?

400

The ability to recognize that documents are products of a particular point in time, and that point in time influences information the document contains.`

What is contextualization?

400

This group consisted of the first colonizers of the Americas. 

What is the Spanish?

400

The number left of the original 600 Conquistadores after the journey was over.

What is four?

400

The country which funded Christopher Columbus' Expedition.

What is Spain?

500

When you compare documents to each other and recognize that there are differences or similarities

What is corroboration? 

500

This group was not well known for colonizing the North American continent. 

What is the Dutch?

500

The amount of years Cabeza's journey was.

What is eight?

500

The name of the three ships in Columbus' fleet.

What is the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?