Unit 1 Geography, Early Americans, Exploration, & Colonization
Section 1 – Geography
Section 2 – Early Americans:
Beringia land bridge: possible migration route
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Illinois
Section 3 – Exploration
Voyages of Christopher Columbus World
Columbus West Indies East Indies
World
World Columbus
Hernando De Soto
Spanish Fort in St. Augustine, Florida
St. Augustine Fort
Magellan
Jacques Marquette Louis Joliet
La Salle explored the Great Lakes and discovered mouth of the Mississippi River
English sailor Henry Hudson claimed New York for the Dutch
John Cabot
Section 4 – Colonization
13 Col
Reasons for starting Jamestown Religious freedom Political freedom Money (economic, farmland) Adventure
John Smith
Pocahontas Powhatan
Bartholomew Gosnold