Key Vocabulary
What is an object made or used by humans in the past?
What is an artifact?
What is the movement of people from one area to a new area called?
What is migration?
In which region did indigenous groups hunt big game on widespread prairies and heavily value courage in war?
What is the Plains region?
What phrase summarizes the three main motivations for European exploration?
What is "God, Gold, and Glory"?
What was the massive exchange of goods, plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and the Old World called?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What is a specific geographical area sharing physical and cultural characteristics?
What is a region?
What land feature opened up during the last Ice Age, allowing humans to cross into North America from Siberia?
What is the Bering Land Bridge (or Bering Strait land bridge)?
Which group in the Southwest region built large masonry buildings and cliff dwellings like those at Mesa Verde?
Who are the Ancestral Pueblo peoples?
Which Portuguese explorer led an expedition to India, opening an all-water trade route from Europe to Asia?
Who is Vasco da Gama?
What was the ocean journey called that forcibly transported enslaved Africans to the Americas under terrible conditions?
What is the Middle Passage?
What is a formal conference between opposing sides to discuss terms of peace?
What is a parley?
Between how many thousands of years ago did the first humans enter North America from Asia?
What is 30,000 to 15,000 years ago?
In which region did societies build platform mounds, farm corn, and participate in long-distance trade across the U.S. and southern Canada?
What is the Woodlands region?
What sea were European traders trying to avoid by finding an ocean route directly to Asia?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
What key Civics concept means individual freedoms and rights within a society?
What is liberty?
What is the 1513 Spanish royal declaration demanding Indigenous legal submission?
What is the Requerimiento?
What type of scientist studies human history by examining physical remains and artifacts?
What is an archaeologist?
What two key natural resources were used by Native fishermen and sea hunters in the Pacific Northwest?
What are fish oil and copper?
In 1492, what simple trinkets did Columbus trade with Native people for items like parrots and cotton thread?
What are red caps and glass beads?
What three core analytical concepts drive our study of historical events throughout Unit 1?
What are Power, Wealth, and Morality?
What is the English common law principle where a married woman's legal rights were subsumed under her husband's?
What is coverture?
What large animals were small bands of nomadic hunters trailing when they crossed into North America? Name two.
What are woolly mammoths, mastodons, and bison?
Why did Native American images often become subject to stereotypes in later American history?
Because of bitter conflicts over tribal lands during the 19th century.
What specific metal was Columbus searching for when he noticed indigenous people wearing small bits of it?
What is gold?
What type of essay will students write at the end of the unit using historical documents to show different perspectives?
What is a Document-Based Question (DBQ) essay?