Unit 1: Chapters 1-3

Match the following

• the weather in an area over a long time

• adobe

• animal spirits

• climate

• building material used by the Pueblo

• artifacts

• ways of living

• totems

• items made by people that can tell about the past

• cultures

Match the following

• people who travel to unknown places

• explorers

• a group of lands under one ruler

• settlement

• a new place to live

• empire

• place early explorers were trying to sail

• Asia

Match the following

• to speak for someone

• democracy

• kind of government in which the people have a say in their laws

• burgesses

• men chosen to make laws in the communities around Jamestown

• colony

• people who live in a colony

• colonists

• a settlement in one country that is ruled by another country

• represent

The first people in America were the ​ (a)   ​ They depended on the ​ (b)   for their food and homes. American Indians from the same region shared the same ​ (c)  

• American Indians.
• land
• way of life.

Explorers from many countries sailed to America.

• True

• False

All of the explorers who sailed to America were looking for gold.

• True

• False

Who helped the colonists by saying that anyone who didn't work didn't eat?

• Christopher Columbus

• John Smith

• Leif Erikson

At one time, a large land bridge connected North America and ____

• South America

• Asia

• Atlantic Ocean

• Indian Ocean

The people who lived in North America before the European explorers were ___

• French

• colonists

• American Indians

• Puritans

Europeans wanted gold, silk, and spices from ____

• Asia

• North America

• Greenland

• Spain