Algonquin, Iroquois or Both
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100

Lived in homes called wigwams

Who are Algonquins?

100

Sailed west from Europe looking for a quicker route to India

Who is Christopher Columbus?

100

When groups of people move from one region to another, it is called

What is migration?

100

They were responsible for selcting tribal council leaders for the clans

Who are women?

100

This continent is where the Native Americans moved from to North America

What is Asia?

200

Many families lived together in longhouses

Who are the Iroquois?

200

The native people of the Americas are known as 

What are Native Americans?

200

People who dig up and study old remains

What are archeologists?

200

Cut down trees

Who are men?

200

Native Americans used these to travel on water in Pennsylvania

What are canoes?

300

Used animal skin for clothing

Who are both?

300

He was the Swedish governor of the first permanent settlement in Tinicum Island, which was 20 miles from present day Philadelphia.

Who was Johan Prinz?

300

The Native American's system of trading was called this

What is bartering?

300

Made tools and weapons

Who are men?

300

England had settlements in these two towns, one in Virginia, one in Massachusetts

What are Jamestown and Plymouth?

Jamestown, VA and Plymouth, MA

400

Used sweat lodges for curing illnesses or cleaning the body.

Who are the Algonquin?

400

He was the Dutch governor of the area near present day New York City (NYC)

Who was Peter Stuyvesant?

400

Small shell beads from sea animals that were woven or sen into belts and strings. They had many uses

What is wampum?

400

Changed skins into leather

Who are women?

400

This is the name of the powerful Native American group in New York State

What is the Iroquois League of Nations?

500

Built wooden fences with sharp points around their village

Who are the Iroquois?

500

This explorer said that Columbus had really discovered a "New World"

Who is Amerigo Vespucci?

500

How both the Iroquois and the Algonquin tribes were organized. They were named after different animals.

What are clans?

500

They learned what their parents know and respected their parents.

Who are children?

500

A place where Native Americans tribes would go to rest after hunting dear, elk, and other animals. Archeologists found evidence of humans from long ago here

What is The Meadowcroft Rockshelter?