Native American Cultures
Where did the first people to settle in America come from?
Asia
Who sailed for Spain and "discovered" America in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
What issue divided the North and South of the United States and led to the Civil War?
slavery
What is a word that means the interconnection of producers, consumers, and financial systems around the world?
globalization
What was a trade route believed to exist connecting Europe and Asia by sea through the Arctic Archipelago and around the northern coast of North America called?
Northwest Passage
What most likely caused the Ancestral Puebloans to abandon their villages?
drought
What caused a high rate of death among American Indians?
European diseases
Which war was fought between the 13 colonies and Britain?
American Revolution
What kind of economy do both the US and Canada have?
mixed economy
A political alliance, known as the five nations, in the late 1500s is the _____________.
Iroquois League
Who built huge mounds of earth that rose as high as 100 feet and covered many acres?
Mississippians
Who won the French and Indian War and gained control over a large portion of North America?
Britain
What best describes Canada's government?
-Parliamentary Democracy
or
-Constitutional Monarchy
What word means to migrate out of a place?
emigrate
What is a portable, cone-shaped home made by American Indians who lived on the Plains called?
teepee
A feasting and gift-giving ceremony in the northwestern American Indian culture is called a __________.
potlatch
Why did the Pilgrims leave England and go to Plymouth, Massachusetts?
religious freedom
African Americans worked for equal rights in the 1950s and 1960s in what movement?
Civil Rights Movement
Most jobs in Canada and the United States are found in the ________________.
service industries
What was the most severe economic decline in United States history that began in 1929 and lasted throughout the 1930s?
Great Depression
The Iroquois called themselves ____________.
"the people of the longhouse"
What were three conditions of the Middle Passage?
-rampant disease
-small cramped space
-lack of sanitation and hygiene
-chained to the floor of the ship
-terrible stench
-minimal food and drinking water
-white men ready with whips and weapons
-minimal sunlight and air circulation
What word means an area that can govern itself but is still tied to a colonizing country?
dominion
What are two challenges facing both the US and Canada?
-income inequality
-the role of the government in the economy
-offshoring
-illegal immigration
-race relations
-American Indians trying to protect their native lands
-pollution
-global warming
What is a word that means the business practice of moving a company out of its home country to one with lower wages or other operating costs?
offshoring