Housing
Vocabulary
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Cause and Effect
100
This is a house made of elm bark with large doors at each end; home for several families
What is a longhouse?
100
Holding people against their will and making them carry out orders.
What is slavery?
100
A group of families that are related to one another.
What is a clan?
100
The Indian peoples who got most of thier food from the rivers and oceans close to their homes were the: A. Chinooks and Makahs, B. Hopis and Navajos, C. Iroquois and Cherokees or D. Mayas and Aztecs.
What is A. Chinooks and Makahs?
100
Fighting amongst the Iroquois led to this.
What is the formation of a confederation?
200
A house built partly over a hole dug in the ground
What is a pit house?
200
Each of these had its own ruler and its own government.
What is a city-state?
200
The Indian people who adopted ideas from the Mayas and went on to build a large empire were the _______.
What are the Aztecs?
200
How did the Iroquois stop fighting among neighboring tribes? A. They moved to the southwestern part of the United States, B. They held a potlatch ceremony and invited all the tribes, C. They formed a confederation or D. They invited all the tribes to play a game of Little War.
What is C. They formed a confederation?
200
The Northwest Coast Indians learning how to build canoes and they got most of their food because of this...
What is the Northwest Coast Indians lived along the Pacific Ocean?
300
A cone-shaped house made of a log frame covered by mud or grass.
What is a Hogan?
300
This is a loose group of governments.
What is a confederation?
300
This person was a religious leader who led ceremonies to celebrate crops and also held healing ceremonies.
What is a shaman?
300
This is why the Chinooks developed a special language.
What is they needed a language to make trade easier?
300
The Plains Indians needed a source of food which resulted in the Plains Indians hunting buffalo herds and ____________________.
What is the Plains Indians made tepees that could be put up and taken down easily when the Indians hunted?
400
An adobe building with rooms on top of and next to one another; home for many families.
What is a pueblo?
400
This is what Plains Indians made into clothes, tools, weapons, and food from after they were hunted.
What are buffalo?
400
This is a carved post that shows the history of a family.
What is a totem pole?
400
The Makahs did not use parts of the whales for A. for food, B. to make oil to burn as fuel, C. to make ropes and bags, or D. to make totem poles.
What is D. to make totem poles?
400
The Hopis filled a part of thier homes with jars of corn and flour AND they used water from underground to water their crops because...
What is the Hopis lived in an arid (dry) climate?
500
A cone-shaped house made of poles covered with buffalo skins.
What is a teepee?
500
These are the guardian spirits of the Hopis.
What are kachinas?
500
Pueblo family members needed to store surplus food so they could A. barter with wandering tribes, B. eat when there was a drought, C. feed the kachina dancers, D. survive long, cold winters.
What is B. Eat when there was a drought?
500
Name 3 things the Mayas "borrowed" from the Olmecs OR 3 things the Navajos "borrowed" from the Hopis.
What are the Mayas borrowed stone buildings, large cities, social classes and/or pyramids OR the Navajos borrowed baskets, pottery, weaving looms, tools and/or crops.
500
The Aztecs built canals and paved roads to connect the island in Lake Texcoco to the shore AND they built small islands in Lake Texcoco because...
What is the Aztecs needed more land for farming?
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