U.S. History: Chapter 1

Some scholars explain early settlement in North America with coastal route theory, which states

• settlers began to make weapons

• settlers arrived in small boats and worked later in the west coast of north and South America

The land-bridge theory states that settlers

• came to explore the land of Russia and Alaska

• migrated down the west coast

• crossed the land-bridge in pursuit of prey

• migrated across to settle in the America’s

What affect did growing crops such as beans, corn, and squash have on the early peoples of the Americas ?

• allowed a wider food range for everyone so they will stay

• helped with the population growth and villages

• to export to other places

• before people were protesting that they needed crops

What affect did natural resources like salt in the Sahara desert have a north Africa?

• provided for a thriving network with Western Africans

• allowed certain items to be more inexpensive

• north Africa can now export their natural respurces

• they began to trade the resources

The Portuguese traders who arrived in Africa in the 15th century created

• more intentions of colonization within people

• religious movements

• more weapons

• trading forts at key harbors

The first voyage to circumnavigate the globe was led by

• Pedro Cabral

• Amerigo Vespucci

• John Cabot

• Fernidad Magellan

How did religious conflict in Europe affect European colonization of the Americas

• negative ideas spread quickly

• rival nations carried conflict from Atlantic to their colonies

• others began to judge people on their religious beliefs

• the settlers started to convert and it distracted them

The Spanish king was displeased with the conquistadors’ activities in the colonies because the conquered people

• often died due to treatment

• began to protest their rights

• spoke about the conquistadors to everyone else

• wanted to migrate

What objection did American Indians most likely have to the work of Spanish missionaries?

• they didn’t like the missionaries intentions

• they had to give up traditions

• they didn’t want to fully commit

• it was not apart of their culture

The first French explorers to the New World came to seek

• a new fur trading system

• a new religious group

• a passage to Asia

• North American labor