Great Plains
These two main forms of land are found throughout the Great Plains.
What are hills and flat, grassy stretches called prairies?
This type of dwelling was permanent and built of logs.
What are lodges?
The Southeast had a mild climate and a long growing season, while this region was more forested with a cooler climate.
What is the Northeast?
Both of these Eastern Woodlands dwellings provided shelter, but one housed multiple families while the other was smaller and housed only one.
What are longhouses and wigwams?
In the Iroquois Confederacy, representatives chosen by clan mothers met here to make decisions through discussion and compromise.
What is the Grand Council?
This is the correct scientific name for the animal commonly called a buffalo on the Great Plains.
What is the bison?
The introduction of these animals transformed Plains life, allowing wealth to be measured by ownership and travel to become easier.
What are horses?
This farming method involved cutting and burning trees to create fertile soil.
What is slash-and-burn farming?
This term describes a group of families who share the same ancestors.
What is a clan?
In Iroquois culture, when a couple married, this spouse moved into the other’s family longhouse.
Who were the men?
The Plains Indians developed a nomadic lifestyle following this animal because farming wasn’t easy in their environment.
What is the buffalo/bison?
In Plains culture, this group of people was responsible for packing and unpacking belongings during moves.
Who were the women?
People of the Northeast used slash-and-burn farming for this reason.
What is to make the soil more fertile?
Among the Creek, these “red” and “white” towns had different roles in war and peace.
What were the Creek war (red) towns and peace (white) towns?
These waterways made land fertile for some Plains Indians by irrigating soil and leaving nutrients behind.
What are rivers?
This single resource provided the Plains people with both shelter and clothing.
What are buffalo hides?
The American Indians of the Southeast got material for their clothing from this source.
What are the pelts of animals they hunted?
This term describes a group of people united for a common purpose.
What is a confederacy?
This type of dwelling was portable and made of hide.
What are teepees?
Men did this to get food, while women prepared it and sometimes grew crops like corn, beans, and squash.
What are men primarily hunted?
Corn, beans, and squash were known by this nickname because they grew well together.
What are the “three sisters”?
This was the set of rules that guided the lives of the Iroquois people.
What was the Great Law?