Unit 1Geography,

Early Americans,Exploration, & Colonization

Section 1 – Geography

Section 2 – Early Americans

Section 2 – Early Americans

• written

Beringia land bridge: possible migration route

Section 2 – Early Americans

• warming

• crops

• languages

• artifacts

Cahokia MoundsState Historic Site, Illinois

Mississippians

Section 3 – Exploration

Voyages of Christopher Columbus

World

ColumbusWorld

Section 2 – Early Americans

• Indians

• wealth

• colonies

• 1492

HernandoDe Soto

Section 2 – Early Americans

• Mississippi

• oldest

Spanish Fort in St. Augustine, Florida

St. Augustine Fort

Magellan

Jacques Marquette Louis Joliet

La Salle explored the Great Lakes anddiscovered mouth of the Mississippi River

English sailor Henry Hudsonclaimed New York for the Dutch

John Cabot

Section 4 – Colonization

13 Col

Section 2 – Early Americans

• Armada

• CROATOAN

• Jamestown

• charter

• 1607

13 Col

Reasons for starting Jamestown

• Religious freedom• Political freedom• Money (economic, farmland)• Adventure

John Smith

Pocahontas Powhatan

Section 2 – Early Americans

• tobacco

• Africans

• Dutch

• laborers

• enslave

Section 2 – Early Americans

• Pilgrims

• Separatists

• Netherlands

• 1620

• Mayflower

• Plymouth

Section 2 – Early Americans

• Mayflower Compact

• Indians

• Thanksgiving

Reasons for starting Jamestown

• Religious freedom• Political freedom• Money (economic, farmland)• Adventure

Bartholomew Gosnold

EastIndies

WestIndies

Columbus

World