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Discovering Our Past

Discovering Our Past. Social Studies Unit 5 Part I (L.1-3) Pages 152-163. Lesson 1. America’s First People. History is the story of the past. Native Americans or Indians were the first people to live in America. Today, Native Americans still live in America. Apache Indians.

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Discovering Our Past

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  1. Discovering Our Past Social Studies Unit 5 Part I (L.1-3) Pages 152-163

  2. Lesson 1 America’s First People

  3. History is the story of the past. • Native Americans or Indians were the first people to live in America. • Today, Native Americans still live in America.

  4. Apache Indians

  5. Pawnee Indians

  6. Powhatan Indians

  7. Chippewa Indians

  8. Timucua Indians

  9. Tsimshian Indians

  10. Yurok Indians

  11. Lesson 2 People Travel to America

  12. Many Years after the • Indians came to America, • other people came from • Europe. • The first Europeans to come • were called explorers. • An explorer is a person who travels to • a new place to learn about it.

  13. Some of the first explorers from Europe were the…. Vikings.

  14. In 1492, an explorer from Spain sailed to America…. Christopher Columbus Nina Pinta Santa Maria

  15. The people that came to live in America, • lived in colonies. • A colony is a place that is ruled by • another country. • These colonists were still being • ruled by England. • They could not make their • own laws.

  16. Many other explorers came to America. They were in search of….. gold riches land

  17. The first colonists from Europe came from the country of Spain. They built a colony called….. St. Augustine. This was already home of the Timucua Indians. Today St. Augustine is part of the state of Florida.

  18. Lesson 3 A New Country

  19. Colonists from the country of England built a place called …. Jamestown. • Jamestown was named after King James of England. • This was already home of the Powhatan Indians. • Later, Jamestown became part of the colony of Virginia.

  20. Another group from England were the Pilgrims. They built a colony called Plymouth. Later Plymouth became part of Massachusetts.

  21. More and more colonists came to America. Soon there were 13 English colonies along the Atlantic Ocean.

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