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AP United States History

Mrs. Real

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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