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Question 1

southwest settlements

Answer 1

In the dry region that now includes New Mexico and Arizona, groups evolved multifaceted societies supported by farming with irrigation systems. In large numbers they lived in caves, under cliffs, and in multistoried buildings. By the time Europeans arrived, extreme drought and other hostile natives had taken their toll on these groups.

Question 2

Northwest Settlement

Answer 2

Along the Pacific coast from what is today Alaska to northern California, people lived in permanent longhouses or plank houses. They had a rich diet based on hunting, fishing, and gathering nuts, berries, and roots

Question 3

Great Plains

Answer 3

Groups of nomadic people that liked in teepees and primarily hunted buffalo. Some groups had semipermanent settlements to grow food.

Question 4

Midwest Settlements

Answer 4

East of the Mississippi River, the Woodland American Indians, prospered with a rich food supply, Supported by hunting, fishing, and agriculture, many permanent settlements developed in the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys and elsewhere.

Question 5

Northeast Settlements

Answer 5

Combined hunting and farming, their farming techniques exhausted the soil so they had to move frequently

Question 6

Iriquois Confederacy

Answer 6

A union of five independent tribes, the Seneca, Cayuga, Onodaga, Oneida, and Mohawk

Question 7

Atlantic Seabord Settlements

Answer 7

Lived along the rivers and atlantic oceans, both provided a rich source of food

Question 8

Slave Trading

Answer 8

Since Ancient times people in Europe, Africa, and Asia had enslaved people captured in wars. In the 15th century, the Portuguese began trading for slaves from west africa.

Question 9

African Resistance

Answer 9

enslaved africans resisted slavery. ran away, sabotaged work, or revolted. maintained aspects of their african culture, especially in music, religion, and folways

Question 10

Developing Nation-States

Answer 10

majority of people in the countries shared a common culture and common loyalty toward a central government.

Question 11

Columbus’s Legacy

Answer 11

died in 1506. many spaniards viewed columbus as a failure because they suspected that he had found not a valuable trade source but a “new world”. He had great skills as a navigator and his daring commitment in going where nobody else dared to go. permanent interaction between people from all over the globe happened for the first time in history.

Question 12

Line of Demarcation

Answer 12

This was the line drawn by Alexander VI that gave Portugal most of Brazil and Spain the rest of South America

Question 13

Encomienda

Answer 13

A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it

Question 14

English Claims to the Americas

Answer 14

Claimed land along the Atlantic coast. In search of land/ religious freedom

Question 15

french claims to the americas

Answer 15

• Jacques Cartier was their earliest explorer
• Giovanni da Verrazano sought to find the Northwest passage and explored the St. Lawrence river
• overall they were slow to establish colonies bc they were preoccupied w religious conflicts
• Quebec
• Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette explored the upper Mississippi River
• Robert de la Salle explored the Mississipi basin and named it Louisiana bc he had a vision of a French North American Empire

Question 16

Bartolome de Las Casas

Answer 16

First bishop of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542, which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labor.

Question 17

Valladolid Debate

Answer 17

The argument between Bartolome de Las Casas and Juan Gines de Sepulveda over treatment of Indians by the Spanish.

Question 18

Yucatan Peninsula

Answer 18

A peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea.

Question 19

Adena-Hopewell

Answer 19

This American Indian culture centered in Ohio created large earthen mounds as tall as 300 feet. (p. 4)