Colonies
Vocabulary
Explorers
Bonus Questions
100

The reason the American Revolution started.

What is the colonists were upset with the King of England because of his unfair rules?

100

A person who travels looking for new land and discoveries.

What is an explorer?

100
The type of transportation the explorers took to get to America.

What are boats?

100

The name of the man the colonists chose to lead the troops in the American Revolution. 

Who is George Washington?

200

The person who the colonists wanted freedom from.

Who is the King of England?

200

To say that the land belongs to a certain country.

What is claim?

200

What Christopher Columbus called the people he encountered when he reached America, because he thought he landed in India.

What is Indians?

200

The name of the British soldiers who fought in the American Revolution.

What are the Redcoats?

300

A reason the Roanoke colony did not survive. 

What is lack of food, a battle with the Native Americans, shipwreck on the way back to England, we have no idea-it's a history mystery?

300

A place where a group of people settle that is controlled by their home country.

What is a colony?

300

A reason explorers wanted to explore. 

What is gold, silk, spices, and land?

300

The name of the French explorer we studied who created two successful colonies in Canada.

Who is Samuel de Champlain?
400

The name of the document that was written AFTER the Revolutionary War with our country's most important rules.

What is the Constitution? 

400

The most important document in the United States, containing its laws. 

What is the Constitution?

400
The people who were already in American when the explorers reached here.

What are the Native Americans?

400

The word carved on the tree at Roanoke.

What is Croatoan?

500

An example of one of the 13 colonies?

What is Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, Delaware, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut. 

500

The war fought between the colonists and England to establish their independence. 

What is the American Revolution? 

500

The three countries that explored America as this time.

What are Spain, France, and England?

500
The country who explored Kentucky.

What is France?