U.S. History
Three Worlds Meet
Chapter Guide
Chapter 1.1/1.2/2.1/2.2/2.5
The Earliest Americans
Chapter 1 Section 1(page 6-9)
Complete Key Terms and People:
*Bering Land Bridge *Paleo-Indians *migration *hunter-gatherers *environments *culture
Complete Read and Response Questions:
(CG#1) How do scientists believe people first arrived in North America?
(CG#2) How did warmer climates at the end of the Ice Age affect the Americas?
(CG#3) Why do you think early people in the Americas migrated south?
(CG#4) What is the earliest known civilization in the Americas, and where is it located?
(CG#5) What are the Olmec known for building first?
(CG#6) What are the Inca known for?
(CG#7) How were the Aztec and Inca similar?
Native American Cultures
Chapter 1 Section 2 (page 10-15)
Complete Key Terms and People:
*pueblos *kivas *totems *teepees *matrilineal *Iroquois League
Complete Read and Response Questions:
(CG#8) How did Anasazi houses change over time?
(CG#9) Why did the Anasazi build cliff dwellings?
(CG#10) What did the Anasazi, Hopewell, and Mississippian societies have in common?
(CG#11) Why are totems important to the Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest?
(CG#12) What were some of the similarities and differences between Native American cultures in the Great Plains and the East?
(CG#13) Why was the formation of the Iroquois League considered to be a significant political development?
(CG#14) What role did religion play in the lives of Native Americans?
(CG#15) How did Native Americans view land ownership?
Europeans Set Sail
Chapter 2 Section 1 (page 38-41)
Complete Key Terms and People:
*Leif Erikson *Henry the Navigator *astrolabe *caravels
Complete Read and Response Questions:
(CG# 16) How did Leif Eriksson and his crew reach North America?
(CG#17) Why did Viking ships travel the rough North Atlantic seas better than earlier ships?
(CG#18) Why did the Vikings only stay in North America for only a few years?
(CG#19) Why were caravels able to sail against the wind?
(CG#20) What were the results of Portugal’s exploration?
(CG#21) Who was the first explorer to find a sea route from Europe to Asia?
Europeans Reach the Americas
Chapter 2 Section 2 (page 42-45)
Complete Key Terms and People:
*Christopher Columbus *Line of Demarcation *Treaty of Tordesillas *Ferdinand Magellan *circumnavigate *Columbian Exchange
Complete Read and Response Questions:
(CG#22) What agreement did Christopher Columbus make with Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain?
(CG#23) Why were Columbus’s voyages of exploration significant?
(CG#24) How did Columbus’s voyage lead to a dispute between Spain and Portugal?
(CG#25) How did the Americas get their name?
(CG#26) Whose crew was the first to circumnavigate, or go all the way around, the world?
(CG#27) How did the Columbian Exchange and the slave trade affect the economies and the people of Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
Beginnings of Slavery in the Americas
Chapter 2 Section 5 (page 58-61)
Complete Key Terms and People:
*immune *Middle Passage *African Diaspora
Complete Read and Response Questions:
(CG#28) Why did colonists turn to enslaved Africans for labor on their plantations?
(CG#29) Why did disease take such a high toll on Native Americans?
(CG#30) Who was Bartolome de Las Casas?
(CG#31) How many enslaved Africans were shipped to the Americas between 1520 and 1860?
(CG#32) Describe the slave culture in the Americas.