AP United States History
Mrs. Real
Name:
First Last
CHART: FIRST AMERICANS
Due: September 2, 2009
Instructions: Read the handouts: Making America, Chapter 1, pp 2-29, and Worlds of Difference, Chapter 1, pp 5-58 and complete the chart below. For many of the terms you will need to use BOTH sources.
NAME/TERM | IDENTIFICATION |
Carbon 14 dating | |
Pleistocene Era | |
Beringia | Location and time period: Causes of its appearance and disappearance: What did it look like?: What mammals was it home to? Why important for North America: |
Paleo-Indians | Define: List at least 4 characteristics of their lifestyle: |
Archaic cultures | How did they differ from Paleo-Indian cultures? |
Mound builders | When and where? Who? |
Southeast Indians | List at least 3 characteristics of their culture/lifestyle |
Eastern Woodlands Indians/Iroquois | List at least 3 characteristics of their culture/lifestyle Role of women: Role of men: |
Anasazi | When and where? List at least 3 characteristics of their culture/lifestyle What happened to them? |
Indians of the: Great Basin California region Northwest Coast | Why did they not practice much agriculture? Describe their lifestyles: |
Pre-Columbian | |
Henry the Navigator | |
astrolabe | |
Northwest Passage | |
Columbian Exchange | |
Slave Coast |