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American Beginnings

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How did people first come to America?

a)

Man made canoes using navigational skills

b)

Hot air balloons invented in 1300 BC

c)

Land bridge between Asia and Alaska called Beringia

d)

Underground route created by the Mayans

2.

How did the Native American people get their food?

a)

Hunting

b)

Farming

c)

Fishing

d)

all answer choices

3.

Native Americans had strong feelings of family ties or kinship?

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Most Native American groups respected their lands?

a)

True

b)

False

5.

What cultural traits did most Native Americans have in common?

a)

living materials and totem pole designs

b)

clothing texture

c)

trade patterns and religion

6.

Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus sailed to North America for who?

a)

Spain

b)

Portugal

7.

What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?

a)

A treaty agreement between Asia and North America over trading routes .

b)

A treaty agreement between Spain and Portugal over land, people, and resources.

c)

A treaty agreement between the Marianas and Guam over land alienation.

d)

A treaty agreement between Japan and Hawaii over fishing zones.

8.

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

4 lines
9.

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

a)

He did not reach Asia

b)

He did not find gold

c)

He left his men in the Americas

d)

He did not discover any new land

10.

Did Europe succeed in changing the Native American Culture?

a)

Yes

b)

No

11.

Thousands of Native Americans died from?

a)

unknown reasons

b)

diseases and brutality

c)

natural death

12.

Native Americans who lived where Columbus first landed where called?

a)

Taino

b)

Mohawk

c)

Pueblo

d)

Aztec

13.

Why do people migrate from one place to another?

a)

looking for food

b)

looking for shelter

c)

looking for water

d)

all of the choices

14.

The establishment of outlying settlements that are controlled by a parent country.

a)

Colonization

b)

Annexation

c)

Decolonization

d)

Land Back