Ancient America
Pacific Northwest
Southwest
Great Plains
Eastern Woodland
100
Scientists think people reached North America by walking across a ______________ between Alaska and Asia.
landbridge
100
How did people of the Pacific Northeast get their food?
1. fishing 2. hunting
100
The Southwest region was mostly covered with a dry, hot _________.
Desert
100
The Western Plains Indians had to hunt ___________ for food because it was to dry to grow crops in the west.
buffalo
100
Which ONE of the following was NOT eaten in the Eastern Woodlands? corn, beans, squash, deer, bear, buffalo
buffalo
200
How did the first people in North America find food?
1. hunting animals 2. gathering wild plants
200
What is a feast that lasts for several days called?
potlatch
200
The Hopi lived in the state of ______________.
Arizona
200
Western Plains Indians were known as __________ because they moved from place to place.
nomads
200
The name of the type of government the Haudenosaunee had .
confederation
300
True or False: More people died after they learned how to grow crops and stopped migrating.
False. (More people survived because of the supply of food)
300
True or False: The Tlingit were one of the largest American Indian groups in the Pacific Northeast.
True
300
What were the three sister crops the Hopi grew?
corn, beans, squash
300
What were the two ways Eastern Plains Indians got their food?
1. farming 2. hunting buffalo
300
Wampum were belts made of _________________.
seahells
400
The Aztec civilization controlled what country in the 1300s?
Mexico
400
What was an important resource to the Tlingit people?
1. salmon 2. forests
400
What did people of the Southwest use to make their homes with?
adobe, sand, dirt
400
The Western Plains Indians lived in _____________.
teepees
400
A type of trading the Haudenosaunee did without using money was called _____________.
barter
500
What ancient group of people built big buildings made of stone with many rooms?
Pueblos
500
Name 2 things that the Tlingit used trees for.
dugouts, clothing, blankets, rain hats
500
The Hopi religion says that the Hopi people were ___________ of their land.
caretakers
500
Name 4 things that the Plains Indians used buffalo for (besides meat/food).
skin - clothes/blankets tail - flyswatter and rope bones - tools and drums skulls - bowls
500
Who chose the chiefs of the Haudenosaunee League?
clan mother
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