Chapter 1 Study Questions using the American Pageant 13th Edition textbook. For eleventh grade Advanced Placement United States History. Vidalia High School.
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| 4771540133 | Why do geologists think that a single original continent existed? | Because identical fish species have been found on different continents in lakes | 0 | |
| 4772449085 | What is Pangaea? | a mega-continent that later spread out as drifting islands | 1 | |
| 4771541738 | The Appalachians formed when? | before continental separation about 350 million years ago | 2 | |
| 4771542427 | When were the Rockies, Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and Coast Ranges formed and what are they known as? | They formed later than the Appalachians about 135-25 million years ago and are known as the "American Mountains" | 3 | |
| 4771615664 | tidewater | a narrow eastern coastal plain region creased by many river valleys and sloped between the ridges of the Appalachians | 4 | |
| 4771544962 | What is the Canadian Shield? | a zone under ancient rock and the first part of what became the North American landmass to have emerged above sea level | 5 | |
| 4771540134 | What is known as the "roof of America"? | The Rocky Mountains | 6 | |
| 4772416612 | When did the Great Ice Age begin and end? | 2 million years ago and started in the polar regions of Europe, Asia, and the Americas and ended 10,000 years ago | 7 | |
| 4771540135 | How did the first Americans arrive in North America? | By a large land bridge connecting Eurasia and North America conceived during the Ice Age when the sea levels greatly decreased as the waters froze | 8 | |
| 4772644571 | Land Bridge | a theoretical land that emerged linking Asia & North America across the Bering Sea about 35,000 years ago | 9 | |
| 4772428734 | By what time did the Europeans arrive in America and what was the population of inhabitants? | 1492, 54 million people in both American continents | 10 | |
| 4771540136 | What accounted for the different rates of development among native american societies? | The agriculture, with an emphasis on corn-growing, that was used by the N.A. (Pg: 8) | 11 | |
| 4771540137 | How are the Crusaders who traveled to the Middle East considered to be discoverers of American (indirectly)? | They set in motion a desire for exotic goods not to be acquired in European lands.(Pg: 10) | 12 | |
| 4771540138 | Why is the uniting of Spain said to be "pregnant with destiny"? | ferdinand and isabella got married and then spain united. (Pg: 13) | 13 | |
| 4771540139 | Why is Columbus called a "successful failure"? | He accidentally discovered American (Indies) while looking for an all-water route to India. (Pg: 14) | 14 | |
| 4771540140 | Explain the Colombian Exchange. | It was a trade system between Europe and the New World. In this system, they traded goods, animals, and diseases (accidentally). The main imports to the New World were horses, smallpox, and sugar cane. The main imports to the Old World were tomatoes, potatoes, and maize. (Pg: 14-15) | 15 | |
| 4771540141 | How successful were the conquistadors at achieving their goals? | They were very good at finding gold, achieving glory, and spreading God's word.(Pg: 17) | 16 | |
| 4771540142 | How did Cortes's invasion benefit the Native Americans? | It brought things like crops, laws, language, and animals into the New World. It also blended together the Old and New World cultures. (Pg: 21) | 17 | |
| 4771540143 | How did the Spanish attempt to protect their new lands? | They settled their borders and built a fort in St. Augustine, FL. (Pg: 21) | 18 | |
| 4771540144 | Why is the "Black Legend" false? (to properly answer this questions, you must first identify what the Black Legend is) | The "Black Legend" is the idea that the conquistadors only did bad things to the New World and its Native American inhabitants. This is false because they also started an empire with its laws, language,and religion which influenced many native societies and laid a foundation for numerous Spanish-speaking nations. (Pg: 23) | 19 | |
| 4772656816 | When did the first human cross into the Americas from Asia? | 33,000-8,000 B.C. | 20 | |
| 4772657458 | Corn was developed as a staple crop in highland Mexico in? | 5000 B.C. | 21 | |
| 4772658672 | At what time did the first civilized societies develop in the Middle East? | 4000 B.C. | 22 | |
| 4772659376 | When did corn planting reach present-day American Southwest? | 1200 B.C. | 23 | |
| 4772661280 | When did Norse voyagers discover northeastern North America and at the same time when corn cultivation reach the Midwest? | 1000 A.D. | 24 | |
| 4772662487 | When was the height of the Mississippian settlement in Cahokia? | 1100 A.D. | 25 | |
| 4772664375 | Christian crusades began when? | 1100-1300 A.D. | 26 | |
| 4772665374 | When did Marco Polo return to Europe? | 1295 | 27 |
