Vocabulary
The Bering Land Bridge
Life for First Peoples
Social Studies Skills
European Exploration
100
Which vocabulary word from this unit refers to the movement of people or animals from one place to establish a home in a new place?
Migration
100
The Bering Land Bridge connected which two continents?
Asia and North America
100
What is a common weapon used by the First Peoples for hunting and self-defense?
Spears
100
What does the acronym SWBAT stand for?
Students will be able to
100
Which vocabulary word refers to Spanish conquerers who violently seized land from indigenous people?
Conquistador
200
Which vocabulary word from this unit refers to the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates?
Environment
200
In what period did the Bering Land Bridge exist?
The Ice Age
200
Name the American state that connected early people to North America via the Bering Land Bridge
Alaska
200
What type of analysis has three words beginning with S, T, and W?
See, Think, Wonder
200
Name two motivations for Europeans to colonize the Americas
Gain more land, wealth, spread their religion/ideas, glory, fame
300
Which vocabulary word from this unit refers to a system of government ruled by a king or queen?
Monarchy
300
What is the name of the place in Russia connected to the Bering Land Bridge?
Siberia
300
Name at least challenges endured during the migration of early people to the Americas based on this photo.
Defense, finding food, shelter, having young children, cold temperatures
300
When collecting evidence, what are three most important things to take note of?
(Hint: These are the categories from our graphic organizer)
Source, Evidence, Analysis
300
When Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas, what continent did he think he had landed on?
Asia
400
Which vocabulary word in this unit refers to a set of standards dictating right from wrong?
Morality
400
What did early people use to navigate when migrating to America?
Animals
400
What large, mammoth-like animal did indigenous people use for their skin, tusks, bones, and meat in the watercolor painting we analyzed?
Mastodon
400
What important piece of information do you need to support a claim?
Evidence
400
In what year did Christopher Columbus arrive in the Americas?
1492
500
What vocabulary word from this unit refers to the first people of a land?
Indigenous
500
What natural phenomenon caused sea level rise, creating the Bering Land Bridge?
Glaciation
500
What are three methods indigenous people used to obtain food in precolonial America?
Hunting, gathering, and farming (agriculture)
500
What part of an introduction paragraph introduces the main thing you will be arguing in your essay?
Thesis
500
Name three European countries that colonized the Americas
Spain, Portugal, Great Britain (England), France, the Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Denmark