Ap Us History Chapter 4 Essay

1. History is the study of human recorded past. ECCO stands for expectations, constraints, choices, and outcomes.

2. The Native Americans began the "Making of America" around 30,000-40,000 years ago. They came to America by Beringia, the land bridge from Asia to North America that was exposed during the last ice age.

3. Some of the early sedentary groups in nowadays USA were the Cahokia, Anasazi, and the Acoma. The Cahokia settled in Wisconsin around the Mississippi valley area, the Anasazi settled in the Chaco Canyon in northern new Mexico, and the Acoma settled in a Pueblo settlement in New Mexico, which is also known as "Sky City". Some societal characteristics of these groups were that the Cahokia depended on a combination of hunting, foraging, trading, and agriculture for food and supplies, the Anasazi built apartment-like structures along the faces of cliffs, and the Acoma have the oldest, continuously inhabited site in the current-day United States.

4. Today, it has been though that in 1492, 40 million people lived in the Americas. Estimates have shown that in the area of nowadays USA, the number of Native Americans were around 2-18 million people.

5. The meaning of "The Columbian Exchange" is "the interactions and exchanges of people, animals, plants, diseases, technology, beliefs, and cultures among the continents of Europe,

Benjamin Franklin contributed to the intellectual development of America by forming a debating club, that would in time be the embryo of the American Philosophical Society, and also lead to the founding of a public academy that would eventually develop into the University of Pennsylvania. Franklin contributed culturally by traveling to many European countries, and bringing back their culture with him, as well as also proposing that the turkey be our national bird. Finally, he contributed politically helping draft the constitution, negotiating the Treaty of Paris, and finally a delegate of the U.S constitutional