Question 1

What was the Bering Land Bridge?

Accepted Answer

The first people to inhabit North and South America came across the Bering Land Bridge. The Bering Land Bridge connected Eurasia and North America approximately 20,000 years ago in the area of the present-day Bering Sea between Siberia and Alaska. Nomadic Asian hunters came across the bridge looking for big game animals, such as woolly mammoths and saber-tooth tigers. The hunters settled throughout North and South America.

Question 2

Why did European settlers in the Americans turn from using Native Americans for labor to kidnapping Africans and making them slaves?

Accepted Answer

There were significant declines in the Native populations due to disease.

Question 3

How can one demonstrate contextualization?

Accepted Answer

Place events or documents within the broader context of time and place, understand how an event relates to what else was going on locally, regionally, nationally, or globally, and/or draw conclusions about an event or perspective based on its relation to the broader historical context

1.1 Context: European Encounters in the Americas, AP United States History Flashcards