"The American Yawp" (ch. 1) Reading
Notes- US History H [Ardoin] Exam 2026
Questions and Answers
__________________ called the Americas "The New World". - Correct answer-
Europeans
____________ ties knit the Native Americans communities together. - Correct
answer-Kinship
What began one of the most consequential developments in all of human history
and the first chapter in the long American Yawp? - Correct answer-the arrival of
the Europeans and the resulting global exchange of people, animals, plants, and
microbes
Native Americans passed ____________ down. - Correct answer-stories
According to the Lenape tradition, the earth was made when
________________________ fell into a watery world, landed safely on a turtle's
back, creating Turtle Island or ___________________. - Correct answer-Sky
Women; North America
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, A land bridge connected Asia and North America across the
___________________. - Correct answer-Bering Strait
Evidence illustrates a great deal of _______________, with numerous different
groups settling and migrating over thousands of years. - Correct answer-diversity
Rich and diverse _________ fueled massive population growth across the
continent. - Correct answer-diets
Mesoamericans in modern-day Mexico and Central America relied upon
domesticated ________ to develop the hemisphere's first settled population around
1200 BC. - Correct answer-maize/corn
In the Eastern Woodlands, what three crops were known as the "Three Sisters"? -
Correct answer-corn, beans, and squash
Typically in Woodland communities, women practiced ______________ while
men ____________ and _____________. - Correct answer-agriculture; hunted;
fished
Societies transitioning to _____________________ experienced weaker bones and
teeth. - Correct answer-agriculture
Many Native cultures understood ancestry as ____________________. - Correct
answer-matrilineal
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Notes- US History H [Ardoin] Exam 2026
Questions and Answers
__________________ called the Americas "The New World". - Correct answer-
Europeans
____________ ties knit the Native Americans communities together. - Correct
answer-Kinship
What began one of the most consequential developments in all of human history
and the first chapter in the long American Yawp? - Correct answer-the arrival of
the Europeans and the resulting global exchange of people, animals, plants, and
microbes
Native Americans passed ____________ down. - Correct answer-stories
According to the Lenape tradition, the earth was made when
________________________ fell into a watery world, landed safely on a turtle's
back, creating Turtle Island or ___________________. - Correct answer-Sky
Women; North America
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, A land bridge connected Asia and North America across the
___________________. - Correct answer-Bering Strait
Evidence illustrates a great deal of _______________, with numerous different
groups settling and migrating over thousands of years. - Correct answer-diversity
Rich and diverse _________ fueled massive population growth across the
continent. - Correct answer-diets
Mesoamericans in modern-day Mexico and Central America relied upon
domesticated ________ to develop the hemisphere's first settled population around
1200 BC. - Correct answer-maize/corn
In the Eastern Woodlands, what three crops were known as the "Three Sisters"? -
Correct answer-corn, beans, and squash
Typically in Woodland communities, women practiced ______________ while
men ____________ and _____________. - Correct answer-agriculture; hunted;
fished
Societies transitioning to _____________________ experienced weaker bones and
teeth. - Correct answer-agriculture
Many Native cultures understood ancestry as ____________________. - Correct
answer-matrilineal
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