US History Unit 1

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When and where did the first people migrate from?

15,000-30,000 years ago, from Siberia.

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  • Developed the first system of writing in the western hemisphere.

  • Developed a 365-day calendar.

Developments of the OLMEC people.

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  • 100-1600 AD.

  • Built cliff dwellings that still exist today.

Developments of the ANASAZI.

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  • 600 BC - 900 AD.

  • Played a ball game on stone courts with a rubber ball.

Developments of the MAYAN people.

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  • 800 - 1400 AD

  • Cahokia - the largest mound building culture in North America.

Developments of the MOUND BUILDERS.

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  • 1200 - 1533 AD.

  • Roads rivaled the Romans.

  • Quipi - device for recording information consisting of variously-colored threads knotted in different ways.

Developments of the INCAN people.

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  • 1325 to 1521 AD

  • Chinampas - floating gardens consisting of a large barge woven from reeds and filled with dirt.

Developments of the AZTEC people.

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What was the explorers motivation?

God, Gold, Glory, and Trade.

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Which country initiated the era of European exploration?

Portugal.

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Which country was the first European country to establish colonies in the Americas?

Spain.

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  • Founded in 1565

  • Oldest continuously occupied settlement of European and African American origin in the United States.

St. Augustine.

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  • 1585

  • In what is North Carolina today

  • W. Raleigh established

  • Returned to find all the colonists gone

Roanoke.

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  • 1607

  • First permanent English settlement in the US.

Jamestown

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What is the widespread transfer of people, goods, and diseases between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres?

The Columbian Exchange.

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What is a business entity in which investors provide the capital and assume the risk in order to reap significant returns?

A Joint-Stock company.

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  • Winter of 1609-1610

  • Some were reduced to cannibalism

  • Out of more than 300, only 60 survived.

The Starving Time.

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What is the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Western Hemisphere?

The Middle Passage.

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Tobacco based; tolerant of Catholics.

Maryland.