Story Works - Roanoke Vocabulary

People who help create a colony and live there.

• allies

• Colonists

• tribes

• explorers

A unit of measurement used in America and Britain. It usually measure an area of land.

• archaeologists

• settlers

• acres

• tribes

People who set up their homes in a new place after moving there. Sometimes, they force other people living in the area to leave. They came from several countries to North America to live in the colonies. Many were looking for a new life, escaping hard times and rules that kept them from practicing their own religions.

• Native peoples

• allies

• archaeologists

• settlers

Groups of people—often of related families—who live in the same area and share the same language, culture, and history.

• tribes

• acres

• colony

• the New World

An area controlled by another country that is usually far away. People from that distant country move to the place and live there.

• explorers

• acres

• colony

• the. New World

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

Scientists who study people and cultures from long ago, often by digging up old buildings, objects, and bones and examining them carefully.

• tribes

• archaeologists

• settlers

• exploreres

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

People who travel to places to learn about them or to find something. Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan were two of the most famous ones.

• explorers

• tribes

• Native people

• allies

What Europeans called North, Central, and South America after Christopher Columbus traveled there in the late 1400s

• archaeologists

• colony

• the New World

• acres

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

People, groups, or countries that help or support another person, group, or country.

• the New World

• explorers

• colonists

• allies

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.3

Peoples in an area who were the first people to live there.

• settlers

• Native peoples

• explorers

• allies