Chapter 1/2 US History – Flashcards
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How do scientists think people first migrated to the Americas?
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They walked from Asia across the Beringia land bridge.
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To survive in different areas, native peoples had to learn to? (provide 2 examples).
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adapt to their environment, ate what was available, Used plants and animals for food, shelter, clothing
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Which region best fits this description of its environment? • treeless grasslands • dense grasses • large buffalo herds
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Great Plains
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Native Americans in the Southeast built
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towns clustered around large earthen mounds.
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Among the Iroquois-speaking people of the Eastern Woodlands, women were responsible for
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Planting and harvesting of crops
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What Group of Native Americans used the buffalo to survive?
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Great Plains Native Americans
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List the 4 ways that the native americans from the above question used this animal to survive.
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clothing, food, tools & shelter
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Native Americans of the Southwest adapted to a desert climate by?
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thick-walled abobe houses
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Native Americans of the Great Basin lived in a region offering?
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Limited food and water
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Native Americans living on the Northwest Coast got most of their food from where? (provide 2 examples)
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The Oceans and waters that flowed in to the Oceans, salmon, seal, etc...
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Christopher Columbus's 4 voyages across the Atlantic led to what?
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Discovered south Americas and Caribbean islands . Columbian exchange the transfer of people, plants, animals and germs between Europe and Americas.
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Wherever Europeans settled in the Americas, Native Americans?
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Treated Harshly and Died because of disease!
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After being overtaken by the English in 1664, New Netherland was renamed?
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New York
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The Dutch in New Netherland prospered by?
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Fur Trade - traded fur for guns , captured a nearby colony,
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In New France, French fur traders turned Native Americans into?
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Business Partners
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Pocahontas helped Jamestown to survive by?
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Saved and helped John Smith. Brought food to settlers, Married John Rolfe, taught settlers how to farm, Brought Peace between 2 groups!
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Settlers in the Spanish borderlands were mostly?
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Priests/missionaries and soldiers
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During the 1500's Spanish Conquistadors conquered what areas?
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South Americas, land west of Florida and Caribbean islands
