Social Studies Benchmark Study Guide

3rd grade social studies benchmark test flashcards

18 cards   |   Total Attempts: 183
  

Cards In This Set

Front Back
An ________________ is a person who travels looking for new land and discoveries.
Explorer
When Europeans explored New York and Quebec, Canada, they found that ______________________.
Native Americans already lived in both places
The early Iroquois women were farmers who _____ ______, such as corn.
Grew crops
The European explorers Columbus, DeSoto, and Ponce de Leon all ____________ ________ _______________ ____ _________.
Explored North America for Spain.
A _________ is a large group of ships.
Fleet
A _________ is a stone wall around a building that protects it from invasion.
Fort
____________ _____________ took 105 men on a ship from England to settle North America.
Christopher Newport
Christopher Newport and the men who came with him built a settlement called _______________.
Jamestown
The first European explorers came to North America in hopes of _____________________________________.
Finding a faster route to trade with China and India
In a representative government, ___________________________________________.
Voters elect people to speak for them.
___________________ was one of Powhaten's daughters.
Pocahontas
Pocahontas demonstrated good citizenship by _____________________________________.
Bringing food to the settlers.
Pocahontas was only _____ when she died. She was buried in _____________.
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England
Ponce de Leon named the place where he landed La Florida, which means "_______ ___ __________"
Land of flowers
Jamestown was saved from hunger and disease when ____________________________.
400 new settlers arrived with supplies