4th-Social Studies Unit 1

Doering, ASLS, Social Studies, Unit 1

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Artifact

Tools, weapons, clothes, or articles used by people long ago.

Mississippians

The Native American tribe that built a city near the Mississippi River across form where St. Louis is now.

Cahokia

The city this Native American tribe built across from St. Louis near the Mississippi.

Longhouses

Permanent homes made of wood and grasses near forests that Native Americans built ine the Eastern part of the U.S.

Tepees

Homes the Plains Indians lived in that could be packed up and moved to follow the bison.ernment set up by 5 Native Ame

Iroquois League

A government set up by 5 Native American tribes where each member had a say in how the government was run.

The Founders

The group of men who gathered to write the U.S. constitution.

Christopher Columbus

A European explorer who wanted to find a faster route from Europe to Asia

The country who controlled Mexico, much of South America and most of the southwestern U.S. and Florida.

Spain

The group who left England in search of religious freedom in 1620.

Pilgrims

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Thomas Jefferson

Two men leading the expidition that made maps and recorded information found while exploring the Louisiana Territory

Lewis and Clark

He is known as the "Father of the Constitution" because he planned, wrote and fought for its approval.

James Madison

Two people who went on the Louisiana Expidetion as guides.

Carbonneau and Sacagawea

The name of the document the Founders came up with to describe our new system of government.

The Constitution

The Native American's economy (or the way a group uses or produces natural resources, goods, and services) was closely related to their...

Environment

When the Europeans start to come to North America many Native Americans died, why?

The Europeans brought over diseases which killed many Native Americans

In 1607 the English set up the firest successful colony in Virginia. What was its name.

Jamestown