Grade 5: Social Studies Ch. 4

Question 1

Vocabulary: Legislature

Answer 1

the lawmaking branch of a colony, a state government, or the national government

Question 2

Vocabulary: Primary Source

Answer 2

a record of an event made by a person who saw or took part in it

Question 3

Vocabulary: Secondary Source

Answer 3

a record of an event written by someone who was not present at the time

Question 4

Vocabulary: Missions

Answer 4

small religious community

religious settlements built by missionaries

Question 5

Vocabulary: Presidios

Answer 5

Spanish forts 
(along the borderlands along USA and Mexico for Spanish soldiers)

Question 6

On which bay was Jamestown founded near

Answer 6

Chesapeake Bay in 1607

Question 7

Most of the Spanish leaders governed the colonies from which city

Answer 7

Mexico City, capital of the New Spain

Question 8

How did horses change the life for many of the American Indians after the arrival of the Spanish?

Answer 8

Plains Indians learned to tame horses for use in hunting and in war

Question 9

Why did the Pilgrims build their settlement on the bay

Answer 9

They chose a site on a harbor because of fresh water and good land for growing crops

Question 10

What were several disadvantages of Jamestown’s location?

Answer 10

the land was low and swampy. Swamps meant mosquitoes , and they carry deadly diseases

Question 11

The Dutch established New Netherland in which two present day states?

Answer 11

New York and New Jersey in 1609

Question 12

Important people: Tisquantum

Answer 12

Tisquantum (or Squanto) is an American Indian who spoke English. He worked as an interpreter between the Plymouth colonists and the Indians. He showed them to fish, plant squash, pumpkins & corn. He helped the colonist trade metal and cloth for furs with other Indians. Indians used metal to make tools and jewelry

Question 13

Important people: La Salle

Answer 13

A French explorer that led an expedition and claimed the entire Mississippi River valley for France.and named the region Louisiana in honor of King Louis XIV (of France)

Question 14

place the events in order….

• William Bradford and the Pilgrims establish Plymouth
• Pedro Menendez de Aviles establishes St. Augustine
• The Virginia Company establishes Jamestown
• The Dutch established New Amsterdam
• Samuel de Champlain establishes Quebec

Answer 14

• Pedro Menendez de Aviles establishes St. Augustine
  (1565 - Spain)
• The Virginia Company establishes Jamestown
  (1607 - England)
• Samuel de Champlain establishes Quebec
  (1608 - France)
• William Bradford and the Pilgrims establish Plymouth
  (1620 - Dutch)
• The Dutch established New Amsterdam
  (1626 - Dutch)