American Beginnings

How did people first come to America?

• Man made canoes using navigational skills

• Hot air balloons invented in 1300 BC

• Land bridge between Asia and Alaska called Beringia

• Underground route created by the Mayans

How did the Native American people get their food?

• Hunting

• Farming

• Fishing

• all answer choices

Native Americans had strong feelings of family ties or kinship?

• True

• False

Most Native American groups respected their lands?

• True

• False

What cultural traits did most Native Americans have in common?

• living materials and totem pole designs

• clothing texture

• trade patterns and religion

In your own opinion did Columbus's voyage have a negative or positive affect to the Native Americans, explain why?

Why was Columbus discouraged when he was forced to return to Spain in 1504?

• He did not reach Asia

• He did not find gold

• He left his men in the Americas

• He did not discover any new land

Thousands of Native Americans died from?

• unknown reasons

• diseases and brutality

• natural death

Native Americans who lived where Columbus first landed where called?

• Taino

• Mohawk

• Pueblo

• Aztec

Beringia is what?

• The name of an Indian Tribe that lived in Nebraska.

• A land mass connecting Asia and North America.

• The name of the religion of most Africans.

• The nation where the Protestant Reformation began.