Vocabulary
Our Past
Vocabulary
Our Past
100

A person who lives in a colony

Who are colonist?

100

He had three ships.

Who was Christopher Columbus?

100

This is a person who settles in a land that he or she does not know.

What is a pioneer?

100

Helped the Pilgrims when they arrived.

Who was Squanto?

200

A special way of doing something passed down over time

What is a tradition?

200

The colony built by the Pilgrims.

What was Plymouth?

200

This person leaves one country to live in another country.

What is an immigrant?

200

Squanto taught the Pilgrims how to...

What is fish, hunt, and grow food?

300

A person who travels to a new place to learn about it.

What is an explorer?

300

A list of our country’s most important laws.

What is the Constitution?

300

This is a place that is ruled by another country. 

What is a colony?

300

Putting things that are alike into groups.

What is sorting?

400

This is when a person owns another person.

What is slavery?

400

Escaped from slavery.

Who was Frederick Douglas?

400

Story of the past.

What is history?

400

The year Christopher Columbus landed in America.

What is 1492?

500

This word means “freedom” from other people or places.

What is independence?

500

Escaped from slavery and HELPED others to escape.

Who was Harriet Tubman?

500

The first people to live in America.

Who are Native Americans?

500

Christopher Columbus is an...



What is an explorer?