Native Americans
The Pilgrims
Colonial Regions
Vocab.
Slave Trade
Analyzing Photographs
100
_________________ is credited for discovering the American continents in 1492.
Christopher Columbus
100
Where exactly did the pilgrims land?
Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
100
What was the very first colonial region to form in the Americas?
New England Colonies
100
What is a nomadic tribe?
A tribe that travels from place to place.
100
A ___________ is a large farm that grew crops to sell, usually worked by enslaved people.
plantation
100
What is this picture of and where is it located?
Plymouth Rock, MA
200
What ship did the pilgrims flee on?
The Mayflower
200
Why did the pilgrims flee England?
To escape religious persecution and form a colony.
200
Which colonial region relied on trade, fishing, and shipbuilding?
New England Colonies
200
What are sedentary tribes?
Tribes that live in one location permanently.
200
Who were the pilgrims?
A group of Christians from England, who fled in 1620.
200
What is this a picture of?
A plantation
300
What Native American tribe helped the Pilgrims survive?
The Wampanoag
300
What was celebrated during the first Thanksgiving day in history in 1621?
It celebrated the Pilgrims’ first successful harvest and the friendship between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag.
300
Which region was known as the Bread Basket for itś mass production of wheat and grains?
Middle Colonies
300
Define the term assimilate.
To give up your cultural identity and adopt the culture of another group.
300
Why were Africans considered a permanent source of labor?
Their children would also be born into slavery, and the cycle of slavery would continue.
300
What colonial region is pictured here? Explain 3 ways you identified the region.
Southern colonies - Tobacco leaves, rice, enslaved people, plantation.
400
What happened to the Native tribe that helped the pilgrims survive? Explain why.
They were forced to surrender their culture and convert to Christianity and speak English, many were killed. English settlers viewed them as "wild, savage, less human."
400
The Native American tribe that helped the pilgrims survive were forced to _____________ by converting to Christiantity and speaking only English.
Assimilate
400
Define "cash crops." Which colonial region was centered on cash crops?
Crops grown to sell for money, not to eat. Southern colonies.
400
Define the term persecution.
To be killed or punished for your beliefs, religion, race, or identity.
400
List two conditions the enslaved Africans faced on the slave ships.
Overcrowding, death, chained together, lack of sanitation, no toilets.
400
Name all three regions in the picture.
Red = New England
Orange = Middle Colonies
Blue = Southern Colonies
500
List three challenges faced by the pilgrims upon arrival.
Harsh winter, poor clothing, limited food, limited supplies, illness, death
500
List three ways the native tribe helped the pilgrims survive.
Taught them how to grow crops, how to fish, how to hunt, provided clothing, helped build shelter.
500
List two characteristics for each colonial region.
New England - Cold, fish, shipbuilding, churches, trade.
Middle - farming, wheat, grains, fertile land, corn
Southern - tobacco, rice, indigo, cotton, plantations, slaves
500
Explain the Bering Strait Theory?
The theory that humans traveled from Asia to Alaska thru the Bering Strait Bridge, then traveled down South America.
500
List three reasons Africans were chosen to be slaves.
Immune to disease.
experienced farmers
no family or allies in Americas
Did not know the land enough to escape
500
What is this a picture of?
The Transatlantic Slave Trade