First Americans

What type of hunters were the very first Americans?

• Big-game hunters

• Gatherers

• Fishermen

• Farmers

From which continent did the first Americans originate?

• Australia

• Asia

• Africa

• Europe

What were the first Americans following that led them to North America?

• Giant buffalo and woolly mammoth

• Ocean currents

• Bird migrations

• Trade routes

By 1492, what was the primary lifestyle of most first Americans?

• Hunting and farming

• Urban living

• Nomadic herding

• Seafaring

What did Christopher Columbus do in 1492?

• Circumnavigated the globe

• Arrived in the Americas

• Invented the compass

• Discovered the Pacific Ocean

How did the first Americans sometimes capture large animals?

• Using traps in swamps

• With nets

• Luring them into cages

• Using poison darts

What was the diet of the ground sloth?

• Omnivorous

• Carnivorous

• Herbivorous

• Insectivorous

What is one theory about how the first people arrived in North America?

• By walking over the Bering Land Bridge

• By spaceship

• Through underground tunnels

• Via a giant land bridge from Europe

___________________ lived in America before the Europeans arrived.

• Native Americans

• African Americans

• Hispanics

• Irish

What year did Christopher Columbus first arrive in the Americas?

• 1492

• 1607

• 1776

• 1820