5th grade · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 10
Encounters & Colonization
Explorers, the Columbian Exchange and its costs
What your child practices
European exploration and colonization from 1492 to the 1700s, the Columbian Exchange, cooperation and conflict between Native nations and Spanish, French and English colonists, and the effects of conquest and assimilation.
Oregon State Standards learning standard: 5.H.CH.2; 5.G.HI.6; 5.G.HI.7; 5.G.MM.4; 5.H.CC.4; 5.H.CC.5 · European exploration and colonization, encounters with Indigenous nations, and the effects of conquest and assimilation
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Hernán Cortés and his allies conquered the…
- Inca Empire
- Aztec Empire
- Haudenosaunee
Aztec Empire
Hint: Tenochtitlan fell in 1521.
Question 2
Jamestown, founded in 1607, was the first permanent English colony, in…
- Massachusetts
- Florida
- Virginia
Virginia
Hint: It was on the James River.
Question 3
The Columbian Exchange was the movement of…
- plants, animals, people and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Africa and Asia
- only ideas
- only gold
plants, animals, people and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Africa and Asia
Hint: It began after 1492.
Question 4
Which went from the Americas to Europe?
- wheat
- horses
- potatoes
potatoes
Hint: Potatoes became a key food in Europe.
Question 5
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was when…
- the Pilgrims landed
- Pueblo peoples drove Spanish colonists out of New Mexico for a time
- Spain bought Florida
Pueblo peoples drove Spanish colonists out of New Mexico for a time
Hint: Pueblo leaders worked together.
Question 6
Treaties between colonies and Native nations were often…
- broken when colonists wanted more land
- never written
- always kept
broken when colonists wanted more land
Hint: Broken promises led to conflict.