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First Americans
Christopher Columbus
First English Settlers
Pilgrims
Slave Trade
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The first Americans crossed a land bridge into North America. Name that land bridge.
What is Beringia?
100
What year did Columbus sail?
What is 1492?
100
First permanent English settlement (town) in North America.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
100
Name of the Pilgrim's ship.
What is the Mayflower?
100
The first slaves to arrive in the 13 Colonies as part of the slave trade were from this country.
What is Africa?
200
The first Americans were called this.
What are Native Americans?
200
Name Columbus' three ships.
What are Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria?
200
What does the word famine mean?
What is no food?
200
Name of the Pilgrim's town.
What is Plymouth, Massachusetts?
200
Most slaves lived here (north or south).
What is south?
300
The first Americans came from this continent into North America.
What is Asia?
300
The country that gave Columbus money for his voyage.
What is Spain?
300
Name of the Native American princess who married an Englishman and brought peace between the first English settlers and Native American people.
Who is Pocahontas?
300
Why did the Pilgrims land in Massachusetts instead of Virginia? (What happened?)
What is there was a storm that blew them north?
300
What is a plantation?
What is a large farm?
400
This vocabulary word means "a person born in a specific place."
What is native?
400
The continent or country Columbus was trying to reach.
What is Asia or India?
400
Name of the government set up in Jamestown, Virginia by the first English settlers.
What is House of Burgesses?
400
Name of the agreement Pilgrim's signed saying they would obey the law. (They had to sign this document before they got off the ship.)
What is The Mayflower Compact?
400
This is the primary cash crop.
What is tobacco?
500
This vocabulary word means "a way of life."
What is culture?
500
Columbus actually landed here. (Many answers accepted)
What is North America, Hispaniola, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Caribbean?
500
Three reasons the first English settlers left England.
What are (1) poverty, (2) lack of opportunities, (3) religious persecution?
500
Primary reason Pilgrims left England.
What is religious persecution?
500
The year the first slaves arrived in Jamestown, Virginia.
What is 1619?