Monday, January 8, 2018

5TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES STUDY NOTES FOR MIDTERMS 2018

STUDY THE NOTES GIVEN IN CLASS  AND THE FOLLOWING VOCABULARY WORDS AND ESSAY IDEAS

How were the Catholic Church’s reasons for sending missionaries to the Americas similar to those of the Catholic kings and queens who sent explorers? What was the result of the Counter-Reformation in the Americas?  Give supporting 

 How would you describe the geography and climate of the United States?  Name the different types of landforms and climate.

 Why were trees more important to the Northwest Coast and the Eastern Woodlands than they were to the Plain Indians?
g missionaries to the Americas similar to those of the Catholic kings and queens who sent explorers? What was the result of the Counter-Reformation in the Americas?  Give supporting details 


What part of the Native Americans’ way of life did Spanish missionaries try to change most?

The Spanish came to the New World in search of -

What was the purpose of the Spanish missionaries in the New World?

.Who was the  Italian explorer who made several voyages from Europe to what many people thought was Asia. He determined that he had landed on another continent, which was later called America in his honor.

To help solve problems with early exploration, Prince Henry of Portugal started a school to teach.

What group of Europeans reached North America about 500 years before Columbus?

What does the word technology mean 

Which European nation sponsored Columbus’s expedition across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492?

 What are the three largest countries in North America?

 What was Balboa credited with discovering?

 What is area in which many features are similar.

How is thethe climate in the western United States different than that in the eastern part of the country.

 What linked Asia to North America.

What covered most of the central United States.

What does the word migration mean?

 What is the main reason that early peoples in the Americas began to live in larger, more settled villages?

  In 1492, he sailed west from Spain and thought he had reached Asia but actually reached islands near the Americas, lands that were unknown Europeans