CHAPTER ONE US HISTORY

AMERICAN PLAINS PLAIN: LARGE STRETCHES OF ALMOST FLAT, NEARLY TREELESS LAND. Two Types CENTRAL PLAIN GREAT PLAINS

CENTRAL PLAINS RECEIVE PLENTY OF RAIN RICH AND GOOD FOR FARMING

GREAT PLAINS NOT VERY MUCH RAINFALL USED TO RAISE SHEEP AND CATTLE

LANDFORMS APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS ROCKY MOUNTAINS THE CUMBERLAND GAP

APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS MOUNTAINS OF THE EAST FRONTIERSMEN HAD TO FIND GAPS IN THE MOUNTAINS TO CROSS TO THE WEST. THE CUMBERLAND GAP IN KY WAS ONE PASSAGE.

ROCKY MOUNTAINS LARGEST MOUNTAIN RANGES IN NORTH AMERICA THEY GO 3,000 MILES THROUGH THE US AND CANADA ROCKY MOUNTAINS WERE ONCE SEEN AS BARRIERS. THE CREST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS FORMS THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE.

CONTINENTAL DIVIDE SEPARATES RIVERS THAT FLOW EASTWARD INTO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND THE GULF OF MEXICO. »Rio Grande »Platte River

REVIEW 1. WHAT LARGE MOUNTAIN RANGE IS FOUND IN EASTERN AMERICA? APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN

REVIEW NAME TWO RIVERS THAT FLOW INTO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER: PLATTE ARKANSAS

THEY CAME BY LAND SCIENTIST THINK THAT THE FIRST AMERICANS CAME BY LAND. THEY FEEL THAT THERE WAS A BRIDGE OF LAND THAT STRETCHED 56 MILES BETWEEN ASIA AND ALASKA. THE LAND WAS THEN COVERED BY THE SEA WHEN GREAT FIELDS OF ICE MELTED.

WHY DID THEY COME? LOOKING FOR BETTER HUNTING THESE PEOPLE WHERE KNOWN AS THE FIRST AMERICANS

CIVILIZATIONS GROW A CIVILIZATION WAS FORMED WHEN PEOPLE COULD SETTLE DOWN. THE OLMEC CIVILIZATION BEGAN AROUND 1200 B.C. IN WHAT IS NOW MEXICO

OTHER KINGDOMS MAYAS AZTEC INCAS ALL BUILT GREAT KINGDOMS IN MEXICO AND CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA.

LIFE STYLES AND NEEDS COASTAL DWELLERS HAD TO LEARN TO MAKE CANOES SOUTH WESTERNERS: LEARNED TO BUILD CHANNELS TO BRING WATER TO CROPS. THIS IS CALLED IRRIGATION

THE FIRST VISITORS FROM EUROPE NORTHERN EUROPE: NORSEMEN OR VIKINGS EUROPEANS FEARED VIKING RAIDERS. VIKINGS SET UP COLONIES IN ICELAND AND GREENLAND. LEIF ERICSON REACHED EASTERN NORTH AMERICA.

LEIF ERIKSON THEY RETURNED TO GREENLAND WITH TALES OF RICH AND WONDERFUL LAND

MARCO POLO WROTE A BOOK ABOUT THE FABULOUS WEALTH. PEOPLE WERE SCARED TO SAIL FAR FROM SHORE BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THE WORLD WAS FLAT.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS LIVED ITALY DURING THE LATE 1400S BELIEVED THE WORLD WAS ROUND KING FERDINAND AND QUEEN ISABELLA OF SPAIN GAVE HIM: »THE: NINA »PINTA »SANTA MARIA

OCTOBER 12, 1492 COLUMBUS AND HIS CREW LANDED ON AN ISLAND COLUMBUS CALLED THE NATIVES OF THE LAND INDIANS THEY WERE IN FACT CALLED ARAWAKS

VOCABULARY WORDS CIVILIZATION CLIMATE COLONIES NATIVES PLAINS