CHAPTER 7: Communities and Their Histories
7-1: Explorers Come to North America
Click HERE for an Explorer Timeline
7-1: Explorers Come to North America
Click HERE for an Explorer Timeline
PLACES: Oneida County, New York Portugal Spain France England |
VOCABULARY: Explorer- A Person who travels to little-known places looking for land or other new discoveries. |
PEOPLE
Christopher Columbus (more info HERE and HERE) Hernando de Soto Juan Ponce de Leon Jacques Cartier Samuel de Champlain John Cabot Henry Hudson |
RESEARCH AND WRITING SKILLS:
Use the Library |
7-2: Living in Different Climates
PLACES:
St. Augustine, Florida Cadiz, Spain |
VOCABULARY:
Fleet- A large group of ships. |
PEOPLE:
Juan Ponce de Leon Don Pedro Menendez de Avilies |
MAP AND GLOBE SKILLS: Use a Locator Map |
7-3: A French Community
PLACES: Quebec City, Canada |
VOCABULARY: Fortification- Things, such as walls, around an object or building that protect it from invasion. |
PEOPLE: Jacques Cartier Samuel de Champlain |
7-4: An English Community
PLACES: Jamestown James River |
VOCABULARY: Representative government- Voters elect people to speak for them. |
PEOPLE:
Christopher Newport John Smith Powhatan Pocahontas |
PLACES: Mississippi River Detroit, Michigan Kitty Hawk, North Carolina |
VOCABULARY: Transcontinental Railroad- Train tracks that linked the East to the western United States. |
PEOPLE: Thomas Jefferson Meriwether Lewis William Clark Sacagawea Gottlieb Daimler Karl Benz Henry Ford Orville and Wilbur Wright |
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8-2: Communication Over Time
PLACES: St. Joseph, Missouri Sacramento, California |
VOCABULARY: Pony Express- A mail route where people would ride horses up to 75 miles a day to deliver mail quickly across the country. Invention- Something made up for the first time. Morse Code- A series of dots and dashes that represent letters and numbers. Broadcast- To send out information over a wide area. |
PEOPLE:
Benjamin Franklin Samuel Morse Alexander Graham Bell Guglielmo Marconi A.A. Campbell Swinton |
8-3: Inventions Over Time
PLACES: Washington, D.C. Plymouth, Massachusetts PLACES STUDIED:
Menlo Park, New Jersey |
VOCABULARY: Reaper- A machine that cuts grain. |
PEOPLE:
Thomas Edison Lewis Latimer Cyrus Hall McCormick Louis Daguerre George Eastman |
LOOK INSIDE THE SMITHSONIAN:
Phonograph Telephone Antique Phones Radios Jukebox |
8-4: Medicine Improves Over Time
PLACES
Paris, France: |
VOCABULARY:
Pasteurization- A process to kill germs by heating a liquid to just below the boiling point. Vaccine- A weak or killed form of a disease that is given to people to prevent them from getting a stronger form. |