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Native American tribes. Their names & typical lifestyle
Apache, Pueblo, Iroquois, Dakota (Sioux); fierce warriors, farmers, fishermen, wandering tribes
Potlatches. An Indian giver
a ceremony of giving gifts; the one who wants sth back
Discovery of America, who/when, naming of the continent
discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492; named after Amerigo Vespucci, an italian merchant, who first understood that it was the new continent
First European explorers before Columbus
Vikings from Iceland, Lucky Leif
The story of Pocahontas.
A daughter of an Indian tribe's chief who saved a settler from being killed. First Amerinidian to visit London in 1616.
Why people moved to America in the beginning?
in search of riches, from religious or political persecution,
First British colony in the New World. City, state, date.
Jamestown, Virginia, 1607
First original colonies? How many? Can you give names?
13: New Hampshire, Mass, Rh Isl and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, NY, NJ, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, N & S Carolina, Georgia
Pilgrim fathers
settlers of Plymouth, Massachusetts, the first permanent colony in New England ( arrived on Mayflower ship in 1620)
Slavery beginnings in America
1619, a Dutch ship brought first 20 black slaves from Africa
the Virginia Company
commissioned by King James I - it had the power to appoint a Council of leaders in the colony, a Governor, other officials
the lost colony of Roanoke
1585, first settlers, after 3 years came back from London with supplies - disappeared,no trace, no clue
State names origins
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Thanksgiving origin and meaning
Nov 1621, first year survived, amerindians helped. showed where to fish and how to farm on the American soil
Geography of the North American continent
is washed by the Atlantic(E) and the Pacific(W) o, borders Canada, Mexico,
Longest rivers
Missouri, Missisipi, Rio Grande, Yukon, Arkansas, Colorado
