The First Americans
Who were the first people to live in America?
Native Americans (American Indians)
What is the difference between a settler and an explorer?
A settler makes a home in a new land, but an explorer is a person who is the first to travel to a new place.
What do you call a person who moves from one country to another?
An immigrant
What vocab word means "a very long time ago"?
Ancient
What vocab word means "the rights of people"?
Civil rights
Why were the Cherokee forced to leave their land?
People from Europe came to America and fought with them, then made them to leave.
What was the name of the people who settled in Plymouth because they wanted to practice their own religion (church)?
Pilgrims
What do you call a person who is the first to settle in a new place (especially the West part of the US)?
Pioneer
What did farmers used to use to get fields ready for planting? What do we use now?
Plows, tractors
Why is Amelia Earhart an American hero?
She was the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean and she believed in women's rights
Name three ways Native American tribes were different.
Food, clothing, shelter
Name 3 people who helped colonists fight back against England.
John and Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock
What immigrants did not come to the US for freedom?
African American slaves
What invention came before telephones that helped communication?
Who improved the cattle ranching business and donated her money to building towns, business, and schools in Texas?
Who used buffalo for food, clothing, and shelter: the Plains, Pueblo, or Timucua people?
Plains people
Why does America celebrate Thanksgiving?
They are remembering a feast the Pilgrims and Native Americans shared, when the Native Americans helped the Pilgrims grow crops.
What place did all immigrants used to come through when they first arrived at the US?
Ellis Island
Name one inventor who helped transportation improve in the US.
Karl Benz, Henry Ford, George Stephenson, Wright Brothers
Who was the wife of the fourth president of the US, and why was she a hero?
Dolley Madison, she helped make the White House a symbol of America
What was the name of the trail that the Cherokee walked on to leave their homes, and where did they go?
Trail of Tears, Oklahoma
What was the name of the first colony in America?
St. Augustine
Why did people immigrate to the US?
Jobs, better life, more food, etc.
What was the name of the horse riders who delivered letters across the US?
Pony Express
What three heroes all fought for the rights of African Americans?
Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thurgood Marshall