Arrival
Culture
Local Groups
Vocabulary
100
The sport that Mr. O'Rourke plays and coaches

Ice hockey

100

How the first/earliest Native Americans acquired food

Hunting and gathering

100

1 + 1 =

2

100
A form of government in which citizens vote

Democracy

200
Why Beringia is now underwater

Glaciers melting

200

Most Native American groups believed in spirits connected to

Nature

200

The three-sister crops

Corn, squash, and beans

200

A form of government in which officials represent the people/citizens

Republic

300

Another name for Native Americans

American Indians, indigenous Americans, First Nations people, first Americans, earliest Americans, Amerindians

300

The fancy word for farming... starts with an A

Agriculture

300

Trade competition led to

Intertribal violence
300

Being self-governing or independent

Autonomous

400

The continent Beringians came from

Asia

400

The main reason why Native American settlements grew larger between 1,000 BCE and 500 CE

Settled farming/agriculture

400

The two large Native American groups in the northeast

Algonquians and Iroquois

400

Balancing national and local powers

Federalism

500

The group of islands that many South American natives came from

Polynesian islands

500
Native Americans believed land was to be

Shared

500

Arguably the first American democracy

The Iroquois League

500

Where the name "Connecticut" came from

An Algonquian word for "land on the long tidal river"