Social Science Disciplines & Types of Sources
Cardinal & Intermediate Directions
Government, Laws & Removal
Thanksgiving
Vocabulary
100
A letter, photograph, official document, or artifact created by someone who experienced or witnessed a historical event firsthand.
What is a primary source?
100
Complete the sentence using a cardinal direction (north, east, south west): On a U.S. map, Florida is ____ of New York.
What is south?
100
The 1830 law passed by Congress that allowed the federal government to force Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
100
The month that Thanksgiving is celebrated.
What is November?
100
The original inhabitants of North America. They lived and thrived as independent nations for centuries before the European invasion.
Who are Indigenous People (also known as Native Americans)?
200
The social science discipline that studies places, physical features (like mountains and rivers), climate, and how people interact with their environments.
What is geography?
200
Complete the sentence using a cardinal direction (north, east, south west): On a U.S. map, California is ____ of North Carolina.
What is west?
200
The U.S. President who proposed the Indian Removal Act and refused to protect the Cherokee Nation from Georgia state laws.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
200
A custom of practice that holds special meaning and is passed down from generation to generation.
What is a tradition?
200
A form of government where the people get to help make decisions by voting for leaders and other important choices.
What is democracy?
300
Textbooks, modern articles, and biographies written by people who were not present during a historical event.
What is a secondary source?
300
Complete the sentence using a main cardinal direction (north, east, south, west): On a U.S. map, Tennessee is ____ of Arizona.
What is east?
300
The fundamental law of the Iroquois Confederacy that influenced ideas in the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Great Law of Peace?
300
A group of English people who traveled on a ship called the Mayflower to Plymouth, Massachusetts seeking religious freedom and celebrated the first Thanksgiving in 1621.
Who are the Pilgrims?
300
A special set of rules that explains how a government is run and is usually written down.
What is a constitution?
400
The social science discipline focused on how governments work, laws, and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
What is civics?
400
Complete the sentence using a main cardinal direction (north, east, south, west): On a U.S. map, Minnesota is ____ of Arkansas.
What is north?
400
Designated areas of land within the United States where Indigenous nations live and exercise self-government today.
What are reservations?
400
A group of Native American tribes that originally inhabited the Northeastern part of North America and are known for their contributions to the first Thanksgiving.
What is the Wampanoag Nation?
400
The way of life including arts, beliefs, traditions, and rules that make a group of people special and are passed down from generation to generation.
What is culture?
500
The social science discipline that studies how people make choices about money, trade, buying, selling, and using natural resources.
What is economics?
500
Complete the sentence using an intermediate direction (northest, northwest, southeast, southwest): On a U.S. map, Oregon is ________ of Texas.
What is northwest?
500
The term defined as a nation, tribe, or government’s power to govern itself independently.
What is sovereignty?
500
A Native American who spoke English and taught the English settlers how to plant corn, catch fish, and gather other food.
Who is Squanto?
500
A traditional narrative that explains how the world, people, and universe came to be and is passed down through generations using oral tradition.
What is a creation story?