Daily Entries

Expect to have Entry Questions most days. Record these into your notebooks and include the Entry Number and Date!!

I collect entries before every quiz. these are our daily grade and by the end of a quarter or semester account for a lot of points!!

Assignments will also be posted on these pages under the dates they are assigned.


9/2/2025 - First Americans Article and Questions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsnrdCdGs7o

MeatEater - Folsom Points

Entry 1  9/3/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 1 sec 1

  1.  What did the folsom discovery prove?

  2. Where did the earliest Americans most likely come from?

  3. What happened 9,000-10,000 years ago?

  4. How did the shift to agriculture change the way the early humans lived?




Entry 2 9/4/2025 - Ol Blue Ch. 1 page 20

  1. Pick a Native American cultural area (Southwest, Pacific Coast, Great Plains, Northeast, The Iroquois League, Southeast) and write four facts about them or a specific tribe in that area.

  2. Why did five Native American groups form the Iroquois League?

  3. Which two methods of acquiring food were used over the largest geographical area in North America (See pg. 22)?


    Native American culture before European contact. (Start at 30 second time mark).



Entry 3 - 9/5/25- Ol Blue Ch. 1 pg. 38

  1. Describe Leif Ericcson, Claudius Ptolemy, Pope Alexander VI, Amerigo Vespucci, Vasco de Balboa, Ferdinand Magellan.

  2. How do we know that Columbus was not the first European in the Americas?

  3. Define and place in a sentence: Line of demarcation, circumnavigate, Columbian Exchange.

  4. List three things the Treaty of Tordesillas did.


https://montana.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/0ee52408-d0bf-47d1-8b17-1154566ca233/eric-the-red-and-leif-ericson/

Entry 4 - 9/8/25 - Ol Blue Ch. 1 pg. 41

  1. After Columbus, why did Spanish explorers and settlers flock to the Caribbean?

  2. Why do you think Ferdinand and Isabella financed Columbus’ second voyage to the new world?

  3. Describe what became known as the Columbian Exchange. Why was it so historically important?

  4. What were some of the main trade items of the Columbian Exchange? Which way across the Atlantic were they traded?

  5. What was one unintended import/export that had especially negative consequences for Native Americans? What effect on their population did it have?

    https://montana.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/midlit11.soc.wh.columbianex/the-effects-of-the-columbian-exchange/

Entry 5 - 9/9/25- Ch 2- pg. 50

  1. Define conquistador, presidio, hidalgo, encomienda, hacienda, vaquero, Northwest Passage, coureur de bois.

  2. Generally, What areas of the new world did Spain, portugal, and France colonize?

  3. What did Louis Joliet, Jacques Marquette, and René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle accomplish? What name did they give to the vast area they claimed for France?

https://montana.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/a7e88e6f-7b59-40a2-9607-c94ff567361e/hernan-cortes/

https://montana.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/pbs-world-explorers-pizarro-brothers/pbs-world-explorers-pizarro-brothers/pbs-world-explorers/

https://montana.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/champlain-pbs-explorers/champlain-pbs-explorers/pbs-world-explorers/

https://montana.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/de-la-salle-pbs-world-explorers/de-la-salle-pbs-world-explorers/

9/10/25 - Early English WebQuest

  • Complete on separate piece of paper and hand in.

https://www.americanyawp.com/text/02-colliding-cultures/


Entry 6 - 9/12/25- Ol Blue Ch.2 pg. 58

  1. How many years after Columbus did the English try to colonize America?

  2. What was the name of the first permanent settlement in North America?

  3. Define POwhatan Confederacy, burgesses, and proprietary colony.

America, The Story of Us, pt. 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5O--KZ-0Ws

Entry 7 - 9/14/25 -Ol Blue Ch.2 pg. 66

  1. Define separatist, Pilgrim, heretic.

  2. How did the religious beliefs of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Colonies differ?

  3. What was the first written constitution of the American Colonies?

  4. Who could elect representatives under this new constitution? How was this different than the Massachusetts way of electing representatives?

  5. Why was King Philip’s War a turning point for new England?

Entry 8 - 9/16/25 - Ol Blue - Ch.2 pg. 72

  1. Define Pacifism.

  2. What was the English Civil War? How did it end?

  3. After the Restoration, why did the English government openly work to promote additional colonization in North America?

  4. What are the 13 original English Colonies?

William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania.

New Amsterdam becomes New York

Early political cartoon

By Benjamin Franklin

frenchandindian war.jpg


In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense. . . .

I have heard it asserted by some, that as America has flourished under her former connection with Great-Britain, the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. We may as well assert that because a child has thrived upon milk, that is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty.