America In The Beginning

Who were the first Americans?

How and why did they come here?

30,000 years ago During a period of low temperatures

called an ____ice age______

The world was covered in ___glaciers______

or sheets of ice.

This caused ocean levels to ___drop_____ and expose

___land_______.In the Bering straight a _____land bridge__________ appeared connecting

___sibera or asia&

americas____________

_______________

This land bridge is known as

__Biringia________.

Animals like mammoths crossed the bridge or _migrated__________ to the America's.

Hunter's in Asia who moved from place to place to

find food or ______nomads_______ followed the mammoths and spread out or

____migrate_______ to the

America's

The ice age ended __coverd__________ up

glaciers causing water levels to _rise_________

covering up the

__land bridge_______

________.Some animals died off like mammals____________.

Living in many different parts of the Americas the Natives needed to adjust or

__adapt_______ to every thing in the new

surrounds that made up each of their own

____enviroment_________in order to

__survive________.

What happened when they came to America?

How did they meet their new needs?

America In The Beginning

America In The Beginning

Living in many different parts of the Americas the Natives used the different natural _resources__________ in their own different environments for food, clothing, and shelter.

Different groups in different environments

developed their own beliefs and ways of life

or __culture_____________.

Groups in the same

environments adapted similar life styles, and

language creating _cultural______ ____region_____.

Many Native American have these things in common.1. Nature has a _spirit and belive in many gods_____.2. No one can own __land________.4. Only use what is __needed (no waste)________.5. _Trade_________ was important to most societies

How did Native Americans adjust to the new environments?

What did they have in common?

8 Cultural Regions

North West Coast

California

Plateau

Great Basin

South West

Great Plains

Eastern Woodlands

South East

8 Cultural Regions

North West Coast Weather:long cold winterscool summersheavy rainfall

Natural Resources:ocean/beachesthick forests of fir, spruce, and cedarrugged mountainsseafood/salmondeer, moose, bear, elk, beaver, mountain goats

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California Weather: rainy wintershot dry summers

Natural Resources:ocean/coastfoothillsvalley'sdesertsmountainsacorns, oak treesgrass, and plantsredwood trees

salmon/seafood/shellfishdeer, rabbits, ducks, roots berries, pine nuts

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Great Basin Weather:little rainhot during the day cold at nightNatural Resources:

mostly dessertlow areas surrounded by mountains at the edgeswith valleys that had seasonal lakes and streams

plants that need little water likegrasses, sagebrush, pinon trees, at the outer edges pine trees, and willow

small animals rabbits, lizards, grasshoppers, snakes sometimes ducks , duck eggs during certain seasons seeds,berries pine nuts, roots, cattail

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Plateau Weather:long cold winterscomfortable summers

Natural Resources:mountains with dense forests in areasflatter in the center with drier grass landsrivers

driftwood, mud, dirt,grass and sage brushfish, antelope, deer, seedsonions, carrots, camas roots, salmon

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Great Plains Weather:cold winters hot summers

Natural Resources:mountains surrounding edgestreeless grasslands in the centereast more water and softer soilwest drier dense grass

Buffalo and smaller animals

1B

South West

Weather:high temperatureslittle rain dry/arid

Natural Resources:mountains, canyonsdesserts, flat top mesasrivers, little water

clay, brightly colored plants, cottoncorn, beans, squash, peppers, rabbits

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South East

Weather:long warm humid summersmild winters

Natural Resources:rivers, ocean/coastFertile coastal plainsmountains, swamps

Trees, clay, shells, corn, beans, squash, pumpkins, sunflowers, sweet potatoessquirrels, rabbits, turkeys, deer, alligators, turtles,wild rice, persimmons1E

Eastern Woodlands

Weather:snowy winters , rain

Natural Resources:rivers, ocean/coastlots of lakes and streams

Forests, plants, maple trees, elm,

deer, bears, beavers, birds, fishcorn, sunflowers, tobacco, vegetables,nuts, berries

1D