Vocabulary
Trading goods without money
What is barter?
A home made of stone, mud, and sticks.
What is a pueblo?
This nation lived in the Eastern Woodlands, lived in longhouses, and bartered with wampum.
Who are the Haudenosaunee?
The people of the plains at this.
What is buffalo?
This region of the United States contains Arizona and New Mexico. It is mostly desert.
What is the Southwest?
A person who moves from place to place.
What is a nomad?
A home made from cedar boards.
A large house
This nation lives in the Southwest in pueblo homes and was the first to use irrigation to farm.
Who are the Hopi?
The Haudenosaunee ate these foods they called "The Three Sisters".
What is corn, beans, and squash?
This region of the United States is often cold and rainy. It contains the state of New York.
What is the East?
The Spanish word for town
What is pueblo?
A home made of buffalo skins and wooden poles.
What is a teepee?
This nation lived along the Mississippi River and built large burial hills to lay their dead to rest.
Who are the Mound Builders?
The Hopi at this food as their staple.
What is corn?
This region is very rainy and can be cold. Parts of Canada are in it.
What is the Pacific Northwest?
Movement from one region to another
What is migration?
A home made of bark and wooden poles.
What is a longhouse?
This nation lived in the Pacific Northwest and did not hunt for food. They made clothing from plants.
Who are the Tlingit?
The people of the Pacific Northwest ate a lot of this food.
What is fish?
This region used to be split into Eastern and Western parts, but it is now one location. It contains North and South Dakota.
What is the Midwest or Great Plains?
A type of government in which groups join together.
What is a confederation?
A home made of wooden poles covered with clay and bark.
What is a roundhouse?
This nation lived on the Great Plains, often fought with other tribes, and were great horse riders and warriors.
Who are the Comanche?
The paleo-Indians were some of the first people to do this.
What is agriculture?
Some scientists theorize that the paleo-Indians crossed this to get to North America.
What is Beringia?