Regions and Culture
History
Vocabulary
Grammar
Word Power
100

This region used tepees and relied on bison.

What is the Great Plains?

100

Native Americans believed they were this for the land, not owners.

What are caretakers?

100

This word means quiet and gentle.

What is meek?

100

What is wrong with this sentence?
“Bison ruled the plains. They will be everywhere.”

What is a verb tense shift?

100

Add the correct ending: discuss → ______

What is discussion? 

200

This region had cedar trees and plank houses.

What is the Pacific Northwest?

200

This disease spread by settlers killed many Native Americans.

What is smallpox?

200

This word means chaos or loud confusion.

What is tumult?


200

Fix the sentence:
“Yes I can help you.”

What is “Yes, I can help you.”?

200

What does the prefix “fore-” mean?

What is before or ahead?

300

This region has deserts, plateaus, and mesas.

What is the Southwest?

300

This law forced more Native Americans onto reservations.

What is the Indian Appropriations Act?

300

These are areas or strips of land.

What are tracts?

300

Which transition shows an ending: Although, Since, or In conclusion?

What is “In the end”?

300

Which word means “to learn something by heart”?

What is memorize?

400

People in this region lived in longhouses.

What is the Northeast?

400

This act divided tribal land into individual ownership.

What is the Dawes Act?

400

This means leftover pieces of something.

What are remnants?

400

How should this book title be written?
Cultures and Histories: Native Americans

What is italicized or underlined?

400

The meaning of foresight.

What is to see something before it happens. 

500

These ceremonies in the Pacific Northwest celebrated events and shared wealth.

What are potlatches?

500

This 1876 battle was a major Lakota victory.

What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?

500

This means the ability to adapt and keep going through challenges.

What is resilience?

500

Add the comma:
“Yasmin I need your help.”

What is “Yasmin, I need your help.”?

500

Use commemorate in a sentence. 

Answer will vary