Unit 1 The Settlers of America

Who did Christopher Columbus claim America for...?

• England

• France

• Spain

• Portugal

What is the name of the fist permanent English colony in America?

• Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Jamestown, Virginia

• Roanoke, Virginia

• Jamestown, Massachusetts

The Pilgrims made a new plan for their government called...

• The Mayflower Compact

• The Providence Compact

• The Constitution

• The Magna Carta

The French came to America to teach the Native Americans how to be Catholics and to get?

• freedom of religion

• gold

• silver

• furs

In 1619, Dutch traders brought captured Africans to Jamestown. The settlers forced them to work and help them grow.....

• corn

• squash

• tobacco

• wheat

Native Americans used animal bones and stones to make tools?

• True

• False

Native Americans are sometimes called African Americans.

• True

• False

The flat land in the Midwest of the United States is called the....

• Highlands

• Great Plains

• desert

• Coastal Plain

An African who explored the Southwest for Spain was...

• Estevanico

• deSoto

• Cortez

• Coronado

The French learned how to use snowshoes from the African American slaves?

• True

• False