The colonisation of North America | History | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

Starter quiz

Match the words to their correct definitions.

Danelaw

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the area of England in the north and east controlled by the Vikings ✓

Viking

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a member of the Scandinavian seafaring people who raided Britain ✓

Normans

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the people who settled in Normandy in the 10th century ✓

Angevin Empire

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territories in England, Wales, Ireland and France held by Henry II ✓
Which word describes took over a territory by force?

'conquered' ✓
Complete the sentence: The invasion of the Vikings led to the merging of Viking culture and customs with _________ culture and customs.

Norman

Anglo-Saxon ✓

Angevin

Roman
Which of the following forged a cultural connection between England and France?

The invasion of the Vikings

The establishment of the Angevin Empire ✓

The Norman conquest ✓

The Danish Viking conquest
Match the evidence from medieval Britain to whether or not it shows change or continuity as a result of migration.

change

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language, government, land ownership and the Church ✓

continuity

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Christianity and parts of the Anglo-Saxon language ✓
The loss of which war saw England begin to have a separate English identity?

Wars of the Roses

Battle of Hastings

First World War

Hundred Years' War ✓

Exit quiz

Which word describes a country or area under the control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country?

'colony' ✓
Which word describes having left one’s own country permanently and gone to live in another one?

'emigrated' ✓
Under which monarchs did exploration of the 'New World' take place?

Edward VI

Elizabeth I ✓

James I ✓

Elizabeth II
What economic reasons were there for people emigrating to North America?

religious persecution of Puritans and other nonconformists

high unemployment in England due to land use changes ✓

good farmland and fishing grounds in North America ✓

to escape the chaos of the Civil Wars
What percentage of Native Americans were killed by European diseases as a result of colonial settlement?

25%

55%

75%

95% ✓
Complete the sentence: The settlers in America forged a new American ______ after the colonisation of North America.

'identity' ✓

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Key learning points

Exploration of the 'New World' took place under Elizabeth I and James I due to England's sea-faring capability.
Many people migrated to the Americas for economic reasons and to take advantage of fertile farmland and fishing grounds.
Nonconformists migrated to the Americas to escape religious persecution after the Reformation and English Civil War.
Settler colonialists forcibly took land from the Native Americans; many of whom died from smallpox and violence.
The settlers in America forged a new American identity after the colonisation of North America.

Common misconception

Most of the Native Americans were killed in battle by British colonists.

Although many Native Americans succumbed to British violence, the overwhelming majority of Native Americans were killed by European diseases, to which they had no natural immunity.

Keywords

Indigenous - indigenous people are the original inhabitants of a specific area
Colony - a country or area under the control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country
Emigrated - having left one’s own country permanently and gone to live in another one
Native american - a member of any of the societies who originally inhabited North and South America and the Caribbean Islands