Native American Cultures
This land bridge connected Asia and America during the Ice Age, allowing early humans to migrate to North America.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
This English company promised settlers free land, adventure, and gold to come to Jamestown.
What is the Virginia Company?
The Columbian Exchange was the transfer of animals, plants, and disease between these two geographic regions.
What are the New World and Old World?
New World: North and South America
Old World: Europe, Africa, and Asia
This narrative element refers to the time and place in which story events happen.
What is setting?
This explorer’s voyage to America in 1492 led to the Eastern and Western parts of the world becoming connected for the first time.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
These Northeastern tribes planted fish in the soil to grow corn, beans, and squash, and built longhouses for communal living.
Who are the Iroquois and Wampanoag?
This captain’s strong leadership helped Jamestown survive by teaching colonists survival skills, though the colony struggled whenever he left.
Who is Captain John Smith?
Name two crops that traveled from the Americas to Europe, Africa, and Asia during the Columbian Exchange.
Answer: Any two of the following:
Peanuts
Potatoes
Tomatoes
Corn
Turkeys
Pumpkins
Squash
Sweet potatoes
Peppers
Tobacco
Pineapples
Cacao
Beans
Vanilla
When a narrator uses pronouns such as “I,” “me,” and “my,” they are using this point of view.
What is first-person point of view?
Three motivations drove European exploration: economic reasons, political reasons, and this third reason related to spreading beliefs.
What is the cultural motivation?
This animal was the most important game for nomadic Great Plains tribes such as the Lakota and Sioux.
What is the buffalo?
John Rolfe made Jamestown profitable by smuggling this crop, which led to more English settlers moving to the colony.
What is tobacco?
This disease was the primary killer of Native American populations, who had no immunity to it.
What is smallpox?
This is the overall idea or message about life in a text that the author wants you to learn. It should be written as a statement, not just a word.
What is theme?
This percentage of Jamestown settlers died in the first year because of disease, food shortages, and Native American resistance.
What is 85%?
The Southwestern tribes such as the Hopi and Anasazi built these structures to bring water to their crops in the desert climate.
What are irrigation canals?
The Pilgrims created this document, America’s first democracy established by Europeans, when they landed at Plymouth Rock.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Under this system, Native populations became forced labor for European landowners and were forced to adopt European culture.
What is the encomienda system?
This occurs when the audience knows something the character or characters do not know, creating tension, suspense, or humor.
What is dramatic irony?
The Cherokee were unique among Southeastern tribes because they had this type of society, in which descent and inheritance passed through the mother’s line.
What is a matriarchal society?
These Great Lakes tribes became expert mound builders and developed extensive trade networks with early Europeans, particularly the French.
Who are the Chippewa and Shawnee?
This Native American taught the Pilgrims farming techniques and served as an interpreter with other Native tribes, helping them survive.
Who is Squanto?
Europeans eventually enslaved African people instead of Native Americans for three reasons. Name two of them.
Any two of the following:
African people had greater immunity to smallpox.
They were unfamiliar with the land.
They were separated from their homes.
Native Americans had become an unreliable workforce because of disease, runaways, and revolts.
This is the author’s attitude toward a subject, character, or audience. It may convey emotions such as sympathy, rage, irony, or humor.
What is tone?
These three reasons are the most likely causes of the disappearance of the Roanoke colonists:
They integrated with the natives, they were attacked by the natives, or they were attacked by the Spanish.