Migration
The reason people started migrating from Asia to America.
What is food?
This was the most important factor in determining how people got food, what they wore, and what kinds of homes they built.
What is climate?
The musical "Hamilton" is this type of source for American history.
What is secondary?
The Navajo Nation still lives in this region, maintaining customs in an area that is larger than ten U.S. states.
What is the Southwest?
The number of U.S. states.
How many is 50?
The name of the land bridge scientists believe people crossed during the ice age in order to get to America.
What is Beringia?
Most indigenous groups viewed their relationship with the environment this way.
What is something to live in balance with and respect?
The U.S. Constitution is an example of this type of source when learning about the history of the United States.
What is primary?
Men and women performed different roles for the Haudenosaunee (men hunted animals and women gathered nuts, greens, and berries), while Two-Spirit people performed roles of men and women in this region.
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
These tools helps historians find absolute location.
What is longitude and latitude?
People migrated from this place to America.
What is Siberia?
People in the southwest did this to adapt to their dry climate.
Why did they build adobe homes? Why did they build irrigation systems?
An example of a primary source for studying the Great Plains.
What is a buffalo hide painting or a tipi from the Great Plains?
In the northern coast of this region, people depended on salmon for food, farther south, people relied on shellfish. Inland, tribes hunted deer, rabbits, and ducks.
Where is California?
The name of the state that is directly north of Texas.
What is Oklahoma?
The number of years ago scientists think people started migrating to America.
How many is 15,000 to 20,000?
People in the Arctic did this to adapt to their cold climate.
Why did they build igloos? Why did they hunt whales, seals, Arctic char, polar bears, and caribou?
An example of a secondary source for studying the Plateau.
What is a textbook chapter about how people used wild onions, carrots, and camas for food.
In this area, people found food by gathering clams and seaweed in shallow waters along the coast, as well as hunting seals, sea lions, seals, and halibut and other fish by going into the sea with canoes.
Where is the Northwest Coast?
The state located at 36° N, 96° W?
How the Ice Age made it possible for people to cross the land bridge to America.
What is lowering sea levels and exposing the land bridge?
In this area, people followed food from season to season. The Northern Shoshone settled near streams to catch fish, then hunted deer, elk, bison, antelope, and moose toward the end of autumn.
Where is the Great Basin?
This is how historians know about the lives of Indigenous Americans before the arrival of Europeans.
What is through studying artifacts?
These people built towns dominated by large earthen mounds, which often began as burial sites.
Who were the Indigenous People of the Southeast?
The states that share a land border with New York.
What are New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Vermont?