SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FIRST THANKSGIVING HISTORY FACTS FOODS
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
Flase
|
|
|
True
|
|
|
Either A or B
|
|
|
None of the above
|
Detailed explanation-1: -Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Native Americans lived as autonomous nations (also known as tribes) across the continent from present-day Alaska, across Canada, and throughout the lower 48 United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Spanish were among the first Europeans to explore the New World and the first to settle in what is now the United States. By 1650, however, England had established a dominant presence on the Atlantic coast.
Detailed explanation-3: -While the Norse established some colonies in the north-eastern part of North America as early as the tenth century, systematic European colonization began in 1492.
Detailed explanation-4: -When the first Europeans arrived late in the fifteenth century, Native Americans numbered in the millions. But by 1900, after centuries of conflict and even acts of genocide, the “vanishing Americans” numbered just 250, 000 (Dobyns, 1966; Tyler, 1973).