March 24, 2005

Grammar and vocab sheet for American History class

Name: Number:


in (4), on, until (2), by, lured, hostilities, conquest, devastated, succumbed, emigrate, permanent, vast, heathen, barbarous, wilderness, indigenous


You have to finish this test _____________ 9:50.

You don't have to finish this test ___________ 9:50.

_____ 1522, the Spanish completed their ____________ of Mexico.

About 40 years later, the Spanish established St. Augustine, the first ______________ European settlement in the present day US.

_____ 1578, Queen Elizabeth said to colonize the "__________ and ___________ lands" in what is now the US. These words show that the __________ people were seen as wild, savage, and crude.

After Jamestown was established _____ 1607, many people began to _____________ from Europe to North America. These settlers were generally unprepared for life in the __________ forests that made up the ____________ on the east coast of America.

In Jamestown, many colonists _____________ to disease. European diseases spread to the Native American population, which was ____________ by disease, particularly smallpox.

Jamestown is also famous because of the story of Pocahontas, a Powhatan Princess. She became friends with John Smith when they met ____ December 1607. She visited her friend less and less as _______________ between the Settlers and the Native Americans increased.

John Smith was injured and returned to England; Pocahontas didn't see her friend again ______ she herself went to England after marrying John Rolfe.

Rolfe and Pocahontas' love story is a strange one: Pocahontas was _________ onto a British ship and held prisoner. As a prisoner, Pocahontas met Rolfe, who she married _____ April 5, 1614.

Posted by James Trotta at March 24, 2005 2:40 AM
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