Early%20America%20By%20Trevor%20Matheney

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Early AmericaBy Trevor Matheney

• Heninger Elementary School
• Mrs. Ritchie

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Colonies

• When colonists arrived to America they were
  beginning a new life in what was to them a new
  world.
• Spain and England were the first countries to
  build settlements in the Americas.
• Settlements were called colonies.

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Selection Vocabulary

• Colonists people who helped to start a colony or
  land controlled by a nation or a country.
• Civilization human societies with their own
  organization and culture.
• Inherit to receive from someone, usually a
  relative, who has died.
• Diverse differentvaried

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Many groups that settled or visited early America

• Asians
• Japanese
• Chinese
• Phoenicians

• Portuguese
• French
• England
• Spanish

What do you notice about these countries? Hint-loo
k for a root.
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St Augustine, Florida

• One of the first settlements established.
• 1565

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Established colonies

• The next colony to be formed was the ROANOKE
  COLONY
• Why was this colony called the Lost Colony?

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Other colonies..

• Jamestown
• Founded 1607

Plymouth Colony founded 1620
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Important points to remember

• The Native Americans helped these early colonists
  survive the first years.
• Some were upset at having their lands taken away.
• Early settlers brought diseases deadly to the
  Native Americans.
• Clashes between the colonists and the Native
  Americans continued throughout the Colonial
  Period.

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Comprehension Questions

• Why did people come to the New World?
• Where were the first Spanish Settlement
  established?
• What were the first two English colonies to
  survive?

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Classifying and Categorizing

• Think of some categories that could be formed
  using the following words
• England
• France
• Sweden
• Ireland
• Scotland
• Africa

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Handing off

• The object of the game is. Being part of a
  group. Take out your study guide and start to
  review the answers.

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Handing off

• 1. Who were the first people in what is now
  called Americas were.
• 2. When Europeans arrived they were from the
  following countries
• 3. The first colonies were.
• 4. Life at the colonies was..
• 5. Slavery began in the colonies by.

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Literary Elements

• What type of organization does the author use in
  early America?
• He uses chronological order.

Provide some examples showing this literary
style (hint page 484)
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Now

• Take out your Spelling and Language Arts skills
  workbook and
• complete pages 134-136
• Thinks Classification and Categories!!