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“Beringia” frozen ice bridge (near Alaska and Russia, Asia) Today: it’s called the Bering Strait
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Ice Age
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Indians hunted deer, buffalo, elk, moose, beaver, rabbit and bear
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Native Americans
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1. What did they eat? 2.What were their houses like?
Alaska, Canada Pacific Northwest Southwest The Great Plains Northeast Southeast Mexico
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NW, SW, Great Plains, East
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Vikings: Leif Ericson sails to America (Canada) around the year 1000 A
Vikings: Leif Ericson sails to America (Canada) around the year 1000 A.D. (about 500 years before Columbus)
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The Spice Islands
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By sea from India to Portugal (Vasco de Gama)
Old Trade Route Over land from Asia to Italy New Trade Route By sea from India to Portugal (Vasco de Gama)
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Christopher Columbus’ journey to America in 1492
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The Spice Islands
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Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain agree to finance Columbus giving him the 3 ships
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Columbus (Spain)
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Amerigo Vespucci Italian Explorer who made several trips across the Atlantic to the now named coast of South America. He was one of the first to say that the land was not Asia but a new continent A mapmaker labeled the new continents “America” after Amerigo Vespucci
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Pilgrims, Plymouth Massachusetts 1620
Jamestown, Virginia 1607 Roanoke, North Carolina 1587
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The 13 English colonies of America
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Which Region had tobacco?
Which Region had lots of forests and trees? Which Region had a tradition of governing themselves? Which Region had huge farming plantations? Which Region had lots of non English people? Which Region had the most ship building ports? Which Region had pretty much only one religion? Which Region had lots of other religions? Which Region had indentured servants? Which Region grew wheat and raised much livestock? Which Region grew rice and indigo (blue dye for cloth)? which colony was the lost colony of Roanoke in? Which colony did Pocahontas help? Which colony did the Pilgrims and Puritans go to? Which colony was set up for catholics? Which colony used to be called New Holland or New Amsterdam? Which colony was founded by a religious group known as the Quakers? Which colony do you think imported the most slaves? Which colony had a city called “the city of brotherly love”?
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1. Around what region was Pocahontas from. 2
1. Around what region was Pocahontas from? 2. What’s the difference between the Pilgrims and the Puritans? 3. What was the colony of Maryland set up for? 4. What did New York used to be called? 5. Where did Quakers settle? 6. What was Georgia set up for?
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Jamestown, Virginia The first permanent English colony in North America
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Thanksgiving Pilgrims Plymouth Massachusetts Squanto Turkey Pumpkins
Dinner Corn deer
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Tisquantum: “Squanto”
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Pilgrims Plymouth Massachusetts Squanto Turkey Pumpkins Dinner Corn deer
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