The First Americans
Know Your Regions
The Iroquois Confederacy
Survival Skills
Totally Random
100

Most scientists believe the first Americans crossed into North America on a land bridge from this continent.

Asia

100

The Ancestral Pueblo built their famous cliff dwellings in this culture region.

The American Southwest

100

The Iroquois Confederacy began as this many nations.

Five

100

The Inuit built these winter homes from blocks of snow.

Igloos

100

The yellow sponge lives in a pineapple under the seas

Spongebob SquarePants

200

The first Americans were following these across the land bridge.

Animals they hunted

200

Salmon-filled rivers and giant forests made life abundant in this culture region

The Pacific Northwest

200

Up to ten families lived together in one of these long homes.

A longhouse

200

The Inuit preserved fish using this method — one your kitchen still uses.

Freezing

200

Finish the lyric of this Encanto song: "We don't talk about ________________."

Bruno

300

During the Ice Age, so much water froze into these that ocean levels dropped, exposing the land bridge.

Glaciers

300

The reader says this region had the best climate for farming.

The American Northeast

300

For an Iroquois decision to pass, the vote had to be this

Unanimous

300

Pacific Northwest families carved their history and power into these tall wooden monuments.

Totem poles

300

In Minecraft, this green creature sneaks up on you and explodes

A creeper

400

After crossing, people spread out and eventually reached the southern tip of this continent.

South America

400

The Creek built towns with public plazas in this culture region with a long growing season.

The American Southeast

400

Unlike most governments of the time, these members of Iroquois society also had a political voice.

Women

400

The Mound Builders raised so much extra food that they were able to do this with other groups

Trade

400

The name of the boyband featured in K Pop Demon Hunters

Saja Boys

500

Historians can't be 100% certain how the first people arrived — this is the word for the clues (tools, bones, artifacts) they use to build their best answer

Evidence

500

The big idea of the whole chapter: indigenous ways of life were shaped most by this.

Their environment

500

This Founding Father looked to the Iroquois for inspiration on uniting a new nation.

Benjamin Franklin

500

Thin soil and long periods without this made farming hard in the Southwest.

Rain

500

This is the only food that never spoils - ancient Egyptians left it in tombs and it's still edible

Honey

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