History of the Americas Questions

their canoes were far better at navigating North American rivers than any European ship, and their moccasins offered better footing than clumsy European boots

the beginning of the Contact Period, during which Europe sustained contact with the Americas and introduced a widespread exchange of plants, animals, foods, communicable diseases, and ideas in the Columbian Exchange

President Johnson's plan for ReconstructionA) differed radically from Lincoln's.B) guaranteed former slaves the right to vote.C) required that all former Confederate states ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.D) established literacy tests for voting in the South.E) aimed at swift restoration of the southern states after a few basic conditions were met.

Andrew Johnson was named Lincoln's second-term vice president becauseA) he championed a strong federal government.B) he would politically attract War Democrats and pro-Union southerners.C) he would appeal to the hard-drinking anti-temperance vote.D) he had been an effective Republican leader for years.E) President Lincoln admired his personal integrity and courage.

False! Even Native American societies that hadn't developed much in the way of agriculture often transformed the landscape through the strategic use of fire, which encouraged the growth of useful plants and attracted game animals. Many early European immigrants to North American remarked that the areas they were settling resembled parkland; this wasn't the natural condition of these regions, but it reflected the cultivation of the local environment by the Native Americans who had preceded them

smaller tribes, Iroquois and Algonquian, who had permanent agriculture and lived along the Atlantic Ocean; Columbus, mistakenly believing he had reached the East Indies, dubbed them "Indians"

As a politician, Andrew Johnson developed a reputation asA) a supporter of the planter aristocrats.B) an opponent of slavery.C) an inspiring and calmly eloquent speaker.D) a champion of the poor whites.E) a secret Confederate sympathizer.

liberal mixing of cultures, leading to a racial caste system, with Europeans at the top of the hierarchy, followed by Mestizos, Zambos, and African Americans

Pueblo people of the desert southwest with their multistory stone houses consisting of hundreds of rooms an the Chinook people of the Pacific Northwest who subsisted on hunting and foraging or the nomadic Plain Indians

stable economies and organized societies to prosper throughout Mesoamerica and the Southwest region of the modern-day U.S.

The Spanish founded a number of coastal towns in Central and South America and in the West Indies, where the conquistadors collected and exported as much of the area's wealth as they could

1. colonists authority over a specified number of natives2. the colonist was obliged to protect those natives and convert them to Catholicism 3. in exchange, the colonist was entitled to those natives' labor for such enterprises as sugar harvesting and silver mining

make it hard for other Europeans powers from establishing any power in the New World

significantly colder, and much of the world's water was locked up in vast polar ice sheets, causing sea levels to drop

Make your own "immigration timeline" of the nineteenth century, noting the decades during which immigrants from various countries or regions came to the United States in large numbers.

sea levels rose and this bridge was submerged, forming the Bering Strait

they were descendants of migrants who traveled from Asia to North America, and they migrated from 40k years ago to 15k years ago

During the 16th and 17th centuries, the British Empire established the Southern Colonies in America. The five colonies that made up the Southern Colonies were

it was more populous than any city in Europe, and both the Aztecs and the Maya are noted for their advances in astronomy, architecture, and art

One major change that occurred in Texas society during the Mexican National Era includes