US 1 Honors 2015-2016

Mrs. Farris

*The following assignment is to be completed by Friday, September 4th. Failure to do so will result in zeros on the assignment and any tests or quizzes that go along with it. If you decide to drop the course, you must do so by June 15, 2015 or remain in the course until the end of the first marking period.

Directions:

You should complete the assignment from the Digital History website: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=1&smtid=1

You are to outline the “Overview” section and then answer the questions for the other sections. You are to work independently on this assignment. Your answers to the questions should be handwritten and they can be in note form. You will have a test or quiz on the answers to those questions when you return to school.

My e-mail address is . Good luck with the summer work and please e-mail me if you have any questions. This class requires a lot of work so be prepared.

Sign, cut off, and return the bottom of this page. It should be returned to me in room B6 or in my mailbox by Wednesday, June 10th.

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Digital History summer work questions

Directions: Use the Digital History website to answer the following questions. Answers should be hand-written on a separate sheet of paper. You may answer in note form. Be prepared for a quiz on this information.

*Go to: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=1&smtid=1

*Read and take notes on the “Overview of the First Americans” section.

*Click on “Textbook” and then click on “Correcting Myths and Misconceptions” to answer the questions.

  1. What are some misconceptions and myths that Americans have about Native Americans? How do the authors of the website correct those misconceptions and myths (for example, discuss the correct population of the area north of Mexico)?

*Click on “next” to go to the “Origins” section to answer the questions.

  1. What discovery did George McJunkin make in 1926? What did that discovery prove?
  2. How do most scholars believe the first people came to North America? When? Why did they come? Where did they come from?
  3. What evidence is there that the first Americans came from Northeast Asia?
  4. Why did Americans spread across North and South America? What were the 3 routes that those people moved along?

*Click on “next” to go to the “Prehistoric Patterns of Change” section to answer the questions.

  1. What were the important archeological discoveries made in Kit Carson, CO and at Bat Cave in Mexico?
  2. Describe how New World pioneers hunted.
  3. During the Archaic period, many Indian people began foraging, gathering plant foods, fishing, and hunting small animals. What were the new types of weapons and objects developed in this period?

*Click on “next” to go to “The Culture of Prehistoric America” section to answer the questions.

  1. Why was the development of corn by Southwestern Indians in 3000 BC so important?
  2. Why did many not believe that Native Americans could build large earthen mounds? What were the mounds used for?
  3. Although the New World Indians did not have many of the technological accomplishments of Europe, they did create thriving and inventive societies. Describe examples of this (include information on groups, cities, government, etc).
  4. The Inuits and Aleuts dealt with living in arctic conditions. How did they adapt and survive these conditions?
  5. Describe the distinctive cultures of the Haidas, Kwakiutles, and Tlingits.
  6. How were the ancestors of Pueblo and Navajo Indians able to flourish in a desert environment?
  7. How did climate play a role in the development of agriculture in the Southwest?
  8. How did the Mogollon tribe cope with the extremes of living in the desert?
  9. How did the Hohokam “transform the desert into farm land”?
  10. When and where did the ancestral Puebloans live? What are they best known for? Why did they eventually abandon their dwellings?
  11. Where did the Athabascans come from? What did they possess that led them to success over the Pueblo Indians? What kind of homes did they live in?
  12. Why was the settlement at Poverty Point on the lower Mississippi so important?
  13. When and where did the Adena live? Why did they build mounds?
  14. When and where did the Hopewell live? Describe how they supported themselves and their economic and social structure.
  15. When and where did the Mississippians live? How did they increase agricultural productivity? What was the name of the largest city they built? How did they protect it? Why did they build flat-topped mounds? Describe society and religion of the Mississippians.

*Click on “next” to go to the “Native America on the Eve of Contact” section to answer the questions.

  1. About how many people lived in the New World when Columbus arrived? Why would divisions between the groups cause them problems?
  2. What were the major Indian groups of the Southwest? How were they different from one another?
  3. What were the Native American groups in the Southeast? Why was European colonization delayed there?
  4. What were the Mississippian cultural patterns that persisted in the Southeast?
  1. Describe the Algonquians. Also, why did their population reduce so sharply?
  2. Where did the Iroquois live? What tribes made up the Iroquois League? Describe how the league was governed. What role did women have in Iroquois society?

*Click on “next” to go to the “Kinship and Religion” section to answer the questions.

  1. What characteristics did Native American societies have in common?
  2. What is the difference between a patrilineal society and a matrilineal society and which tribes had these types of societies? What was membership based on in Algonquian-speaking tribes?
  3. What does the author say provides evidence of the unimportance of the nuclear family to many Indian societies (be sure to know what is meant by a nuclear family)?
  4. How were Native American religions different from Islam, Christianity, or Judaism? Why might they be called “mystical religions”?
  5. Native American religions can be described as “animistic.” What does this mean?
  6. Compare and contrast hunting and horticultural (agrarian) religions.