Unit 2 -First Americans (round 1)

Vocabulary

100

Moving from one place to another while searching for food

nomadic

200

What are First American homes called?

Dwellings

300

Movement of people from one place to another

Migration

400

The surroundings of a people

Environment

500

tribes used storytelling to pass on traditions, histories, and events of the past

Oral History

First Arrival

100

30,000 years ago America was covered with this

ice /glaciers

200

This used to connect North America and Northern Russia

Frozen Land bridge

300

Hunter's migrated to America because they were following these animals

Mammoth / Deer

400

This 'key discovery' changed the way the Native Indians lived.

Farming

500

The first Native Americans were this (people who moved from place to place)

Nomads

Time Periods

100

Began planting gardens, built permanent dwellings, traded with other tribes

Late Woodlands Period 

200

Climate gradually became warmer and ice began to melt, flooding the coasts. Forests began to grow. 

Archaic Period 

300

Ice Age, frozen glaciers, woolly mammoths, nomadic living

Paleo Period 

400

 nomadic living, bow and arrows used to hunt instead of spears

Woodland Period 

500

What ended nomadic living?

farming 

Contributions

100

This animal was the 'key of life' to the people of the Great Plains.

Buffalo

200

These 3 crops grown were known as the '3 sisters'

Bean, corn, squash

300

The US government's structure was modeled off of what? 

The way First Americans governed their tribes (elected leaders) 

400

Give an example of something that represents First American culture. This could be an item, an event, a tradition, etc.

Answers will vary

500

Explain one example of how First Americans contributed to society

Answers vary 

Regions

100

Which First American region do we live in? 

Eastern Woodlands 

200

Along Pacific Ocean coast, backed by Rocky Mountains, a lot of rain, large trees 

Pacific Northwest

300

Dry, little rain, sandy soil, adobe dwellings made of clay

Desert Southwest

400

Grasslands with little trees, fertile soil, buffalo roamed 

Plains 

500

Many trees, largest region, large access to freshwater with Mississippi, Ohio and Susquehanna Rivers. 

Eastern Woodlands