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. The land bridge that connected Asia and North America is called
Beringia.
A special Inuit canoe made from animal hide is called a
a) tundra. b) lichen. c) canyon. d) kayak.
d) kayak.
The Navajo and the Apache migrated to the Southwest from
a) the Eastern Woodlands. b) the Four Corners. c) northern Mexico. d) northern Canada
d) northern Canada
The three sisters were
a) Native American princesses. b) Pueblo nations. c) Haudenosaunee crops. d) Great Lakes.
c) Haudenosaunee crops
northern lights
soft, colorful light that appears in the sky in northern lands, caused by the reflection of sunligh
. The people who lived in Beringia wer
hunter-gatherers
The Ancestral Pueblo lived in an area that is now called
a) the Four Corners. b) Beringia. c) the Southeast. d) the Eastern Woodlands.
a) the Four Corners.
The Creek’s ancestors were the
a) Cherokee. b) Ancestral Pueblo. c) Mound Builders. d) Inuit.
c) Mound Builders
The Haudenosaunee lived in a) wigwams. b) pueblos. c) igloos. d) longhouses
d) longhouses
mound
a large, rounded pile
The earliest Americans came
from Asia
Because they were farmers, the Mound Builders
a) migrated often. b) stayed in one place. c) lived in the Southwest. d) hunted buffalo.
b) stayed in one place.
. The Seminole Nation lives in
a) New Mexico. b) Texas. c) New York. d) Florida.
d) Florida.
. The Mohawk, Oneida, and the Seneca were part of the
a) Cherokee Nation. b) Haudenosaunee Confederacy. c) Ancestral Pueblo. d) Creek Confederacy
b) Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
adobe
a type of brick made from sundried clay
. The first native people of the Americas to raise crops, specifically corn, lived seven thousand years ago in
a) Beringia. b) Florida. c) Mexico. d) Canada
c) Mexico.
The population of Native Americans decreased rapidly because Europeans brought
a) gold. b) germs. c) spices. d) ships
b) germs.
. The seven sides of a Cherokee council house represented the group’s a) clans. b) crops. c) confederacy. d) sachem
a) clans
The saying “smoking the peace pipe” means
a) starting a war. b) planting Indian crops. c) sitting down and talking calmly. d) winning a wa
c) sitting down and talking calmly.
confederacy
a loosely organized group of states or tribes
A dome-shaped shelter made from snow blocks is called a(n) a) ice sheet. b) igloo. c) longhouse. d) wigwam.
b) igloo.
A Pueblo people who live in villages on the high mesas are the a) Hopi. b) Mahican. c) Apache. d) Seminoles
a) Hopi
Sequoyah wrote
a) the law of the Haudenosaunee. b) a set of symbols for writing Cherokee. c) the Constitution of the United States. d) a history of the Ancestral Pueblo
b) a set of symbols for writing Cherokee.
land bridge
a small strip of land that connects two large land masses
sachem
a chief in a Northeastern Native American nation