American history review - native Americans to colonial roots

  1. Why do many scholars believe that the first Americans migrated to North America during the last ice age?

  2. Where in the Americas did agriculture originate, and to which regions of North America did it spread?
    How was Mali connected to North Africa, and how was Mansa Musa's role in Mali a key to the spread of Islam from North Africa through West Africa?

  1. What connection was there between the Renaissance and the work of Prince Henry the Navigator?

  2. What did Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci have in common?

  3. How are the stories of Moctezuma and Hernán
    Cortés connected?

  4. What is the name for the exchange of plants, animals, and microorganisms after the European arrival in the Americas, and what effects did it have?

  5. In Spanish colonization, what different roles were played by viceroys and missionaries?

  6. What was the connection between coureurs de bois and metis?

CRITICAL THINKING

10. Analyze Interactions How did the environment help shape American Indian ways of life?

11. Compare and Contrast How did slavery as practiced in West Africa differ from that later practiced in the Americas?

12. Draw Inferences What effect do you think the printing press had on European exploration?

13. Explain an Argument How did the conquistadors justify their conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires?

14. Summarize How did colonists in Spanish America categorize members of society? Explain your answer.

15. Identify Cause and Effect How did the economy of the French colonies depend on a good relationship with American Indians?

16. Analyze Visuals

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Look at this bronze sculpture mace in the 1500s or 1600s to commemorate a quiem mother of Benin, in West Africa. (a) What does this image suggest about the cultures of West Atrica at the time when the trans.

Atlantic trade in enslaved people was beginning?

(b) How might this movement of millions of people have influenced the cultures of the Americas?

17. Writing Activity: Write a Research Paper The text below is taken from a memorandum from the governor of New France to a high official in France. It discusses the government program to recruit and pay French women- known as "the king's daughters" — to settle in New France. Use evidence from your text and the passage to answer the questions. (a) What seems to be the main purpose of this program? (b) Why do you think Talon requests young women who are "healthy and strong for farm work?" Conduct research to answer these questions: Why did France create this program? What was its long-term impact on New France? Write a research paper with your findings, citing reliable sources.

  1. What was the significance of the Virginia House of Burgesses?

  2. What was the difference between royal colonies and proprietary colonies?

  3. Why did Georgia's colonists rebel against
    James Oglethorpe?

  4. Why were most of the early New England colonists known as Puritans?

  5. How did the triangular trade tie three continents together economically?

  6. Under the policy of mercantilism, what was the relationship between an empire and its colonies?

  7. How did the Navigation Acts help England control its colonies and increase its wealth?

  8. How did the policy of salutary neglect benefit both
    England and its colonies?

  9. What was the central idea behind the Enlightenment?

CRITICAL THINKING

  1. Determine Central Ideas Why were the Massachusetts Puritans so intolerant of the religious beliefs of their fellow Protestants?

  2. Draw Inferences In what ways was William Penn's colony of Pennsylvania unlike other English colonies?

  3. Draw Conclusions How did slavery affect the economic life of the colonies?

  4. Compare and Contrast What were the advantages
    to the other colonies?
    and disadvantages of living in New England compared

  5. Summarize Why did distinct regional identities develop in the colonies?

  6. Identify Cause and Effect How did the Great Awakening strengthen tolerance and equality?