The First Americans
Most scientists believe the first Americans crossed into North America on a land bridge from this continent.
Asia
The Ancestral Pueblo built their famous cliff dwellings in this culture region.
The American Southwest
The Iroquois Confederacy began as this many nations.
Five
The Inuit built these winter homes from blocks of snow.
Igloos
Clay tablets, stone tools, and old bones are all examples of this, which historians use to support their claims.
Evidence / artifacts
The first Americans were following these across the land bridge.
Animals they hunted
Salmon-filled rivers and giant forests made life abundant in this culture region
The Pacific Northwest
Up to ten families lived together in one of these long homes.
A longhouse
The Inuit preserved fish using this method — one your kitchen still uses.
Freezing
The word for a widely held but oversimplified (and often false) belief about a group of people.
stereotype
During the Ice Age, so much water froze into these that ocean levels dropped, exposing the land bridge.
Glaciers
The reader says this region had the best climate for farming.
The American Northeast
For an Iroquois decision to pass, the vote had to be this
Unanimous
Pacific Northwest families carved their history and power into these tall wooden monuments.
Totem poles
True or false: all indigenous nations lived basically the same way.
False — different environments produced very different ways of life
After crossing, people spread out and eventually reached the southern tip of this continent.
South America
The Creek built towns with public plazas in this culture region with a long growing season.
The American Southeast
Unlike most governments of the time, these members of Iroquois society also had a political voice.
Women
The Mound Builders raised so much extra food that they were able to do this with other groups
Trade
Instead of believing land could be bought and sold, many indigenous peoples believed land was this.
Shared / belonging to everyone, not owned
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
The big idea of the whole chapter: indigenous ways of life were shaped most by this.
Their environment
This Founding Father looked to the Iroquois for inspiration on uniting a new nation.
Benjamin Franklin
Thin soil and long periods without this made farming hard in the Southwest.
Rain
The reader says the Iroquois government "easily shatters" these.
Stereotypes