12. What is 3 sisters farming?
11. What is a possible reason for the decline of Cahokia and Chaco Canyon?
10. What is 1 reason the North American American Indian populations were so easily overtaken by the Europeans?
9. In what present state did the Pueblo people live?
The Earliest Americans
8. What is the meaning of the term Pueblo?
7. What crop was essential to American Indian life?
6. Who and where were some of the most sophisticated civilizations located?
Peopling the Americas
5. How and where did Native Americans get here?
4. What body of water still exist from Lake Bonneville?
3. How were the Great Lakes formed?
The Shaping of North America
What evidence is there that the continents were once one landmass?
2. Why are the Rockies referred to as the “Roof of America?”
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England's imperial stirrings
1. How did English attitude towards the Irish lead to the English attitudes in America?
Elizabeth energizes England
2. How did England goad Spain into war?
3. What was the effect of England's victory on English culture and imperialism?
England on the eve of empire
4. What economic and political circumstances aided American settlement?
England plants the Jamestown seedling
5. What is the significance of the charter of the Virginia Company?
6 . What was ironic about death by starvation in Jamestown?
7. How did Capt. John Smith save the colony?
The Indians' new world
8. What effect did European settlement have on Native Americans?
Virginia child of tobacco
9. How did tobacco help and hurt the colony?
Maryland catholic haven
10. What was the purpose of the Act of Toleration?
The West Indies
11. What cash crop was grown in the Caribbean?
12. What were the Barbados slave codes?
Colonizing the Carolinas
13. How did events in England lead to the formation of the Carolina colony?.
14. What was the principal export crop in Carolina?
The Emergence of NC
15. What is meant by the phrase "A vale of humility between two mountains of conceit?"
Late coming Georgia
16. What was the primary purpose for the settlement of Georgia?
13. Name 3 of the largest tribes on the Atlantic coast.
14. What is meant by the term matrilineal?
Indirect Discoverers of the New World
15. Who discovered America first?
16. How did the Crusades lead to the discovery of America?
Europeans Enter Africa
17. Which European country was instrumental in the beginnings of the slave trade?
18. Why was the Orient called the Indies?
19. Why did Spain look west?
Columbus comes upon a New World
20. What was happening in Europe that created the “cataclysmic shift” in history?
21. What did Europe provide in the new global marketplace?
22. Africa?
23 The Americas?
When Worlds Collide
24. List some plants and animals that were part of the Columbian Exchange
25. What diseases were “shared?”
26. What crop started a “revolution?”
The Spanish Conquistadores
27. What were the three G’s?
28. List some famous conquistadores.
29. What was encomienda?
The Conquest of Mexico
30. Why was Cortes able to conquer the Aztecs so easily?
31. Who are the mestizos?
The Spread of Spanish America
32-36. read this section and make up 4 questions of your own to share with the class