APUSH Period 1 1491 - 1607 Must-knows

How did the first North American residents arrive?

• On a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska

• Across the Atlantic Ocean

• Across the Pacific Ocean

• Through South America

Most Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest survived eating

• Turkeys

• Fish and ocean mammals

• Squash

• Sheep

The Natives of the desert Southwest lived ...

• along the coast

• in adobe houses

• in tepees

• in straw huts

Natives hunted Buffalo as they roamed the Great (a)   , which are grasslands that stretch from the Rockies in Colorado to the Mississippi River.

The three-sister farming by the Native Americans in woodland areas meant growing which 3 crops together?

• Potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce

• tobacco, cotton, silk

• maize, squash, beans

• yerba buena, manzanilla, sabila

Before Europeans arrived, Native Americans lived...

• alone in fear

• in organized villages

• as roaming nomads

• hidden in caves

Christopher Columbus came to the New World in (a)  

Columbus was looking for ____ but instead found ___

• North American, Chinese

• a trade route to Asia, the place now known as the Bahamas

• Italy, Spain

• Jamestown, Florida

Columbus and his men did which of the following to the Natives;

• Force them to become Christian

• forced them to mine for gold and then took it

• Forced them into slave-like labor

• All of the Above

Cortes conquered the (a)   in 1521