Lesson 1 - Ancient Americans
About 100 miles or 160 kilometers
No
Antarctica
About 700 miles or 1125 kilometers
Lesson 2 - An Early American Culture
About 1,100 miles or 1, 770 kilometers
700 miles
700 miles
boats and walking
Lesson 3 - Old World and New World - Why Contact Took So Long
From the southwestern tip of Ireland to the eastern tip of Newfoundland The distance is about 1900 miles or 3,050 kilometers
Africa to North America: from the northwestern coast of Morocco to the eastern tip of Newfoundland, a distance of about 2,500 miles or 4,050 kilometers Africa to South America: from the coast of Sierra Leone to the eastern tip of Brazil, a distance of about 1,800 miles or 2,900 kilometers
From a point near the northern end of the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia at 59N/166E to a point at the tip of Alaska Peninsula at 55N/164W, a distance of about 1,100 miles
From the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea to near the southern tip of South America, a distance of about 7,200 miles or 11,600 kilometers
From Tasmania to the southern tip of South America, a distance of about 5,000 miles or 8,050 kilometers
The route between Asia and North America
Lesson 4 - The Compass
The location of the Magnetic North Pole
About 750 miles or 1200 kilometers
South
Northeast
a. Atlanta
Lesson 5 - Magellan
Slightly over 11,000 miles or 10,175 kilometers
(about 8,900 miles or 14,300 kilometers)
(a little less than 15 hours)
Lesson 6 - The Pilgrims
About 3,100 miles or 5,000 kilometers
About 47 miles per 24 hour day
5 hours
Lesson 7 - The Slave Trade
4,700 miles or 7,560 kilometers
Slightly over 67 days
Lesson 8 - Early Spanish Settlements
About 2,000 miles
Northwest
Lesson 9 - The Revolutionary War
About 3,500 miles or 5,630 kilometers
It would take a long time for the British Army's supplies, reinforcements, and orders to travel across the Atlantic to the locations where they were needed
50 days
Lesson 10 - A Revolutionary War Sea Battle
Germany
France
Spain
Lesson 11 - Post Roads
They were all seaports
About 900 miles
1,050 miles
About 58 miles per day
2.4 miles per hour
Lesson 12 - Congressional Travel
Hawaii
4,800 miles or 7,725 kilometers
Eight hours
Answers will vary
Lesson 13 - The Gold Rush
Approximately 2,600 miles or 4,180 kilometers
About 15,600 miles or 25,100 kilometers
Usually, sailing was the quickest
173 miles per day
Lesson 14 - The Underground Railroad
About 200 miles or 320 kilometers
About 750 miles or 1,200 kilometers
Lesson 15 - Civil War Naval Strategy
Approximately 2500 miles
In the Straits of Florida and in the Yucatan Channel
Because these are narrow choke points, and would require less ships for patrols
Lesson 16 - Cattle Trails
About 1,600 miles or 2,575 kilometers
The Red River and the Platte River
Slightly over 12 miles a day
Lesson 17 - Alaska and Hawaii
Answer will vary depending on the textbook
About 700 miles or 1,125 kilometers
No
The one on the globe
Because flat maps of large areas have distortion, and the flat map in the book distorted the size of Alaska
The Yukon River
A mountain peak
Mount McKinley
So that all of the Islands will remain on the same calendar date as the rest of Alaska
Alaska
About 1600 miles or 2,575 kilometers
Warm
Lesson 18 - Charles Lindbergh's Flight to Paris
No
It was the shortest route
Yes
About 3,600 miles or 5,790 kilometers
107 miles per hour
6 Hours
Northeast
Southeast
Lesson 19 - Pearl Harbor
approximately 3,200 miles or 5,150 kilometers
about 300 miles north
The islands were far from any large land masses from which an attack might have come, and most people felt that any large carrier fleet would be spotted long before it could reach a position to attack.