1. How long ago do historians estimate the first settlers arrived on what is now American soil?
2. How did Indigenous tribes get here?
3. When did Christopher Columbus land in what would later become the United States?.
4. What is the oldest European-founded city in the United States?
5. Who was the first European to land in North America?
6. What five countries formed colonies that would later become part of the United States territory?
7. What tribe was Pocahontas from? The Powhatan tribal nation.
8. Who did Pocahontas marry?
9. What was the name of the first (permanent English) American colony?
10. What year was the Jamestown settlement established?
11. Why did the Pilgrims come to America? .
12. What was the name of the Pilgrims’ ship? .
13. What year were the first enslaved Africans brought to American colonies? .
14. How many people were killed in the Salem Witch Trials?
15. What ultimately ended the Salem Witch Trials? .