History Alive! Chapter 1 The Native Americans

How do scientists think people first migrated to the Americas?

• They walked from Asia across the Beringia land bridge

• They sailed from Polynesia in large canoes

• They paddled across the Bering Strait from Siberia in Kayaks

• They rowed from Iceland in sturdy wooden boats

To survive in different areas, native peoples had to learn to

• develop their own religions

• build houses out of wood

• adapt to their environment

• speak the same language

Native Americans on the Northwest Coast got most of their food from

• buffalo herds

• desert plants

• their own farms

• rivers and the sea

Native Americans of the Great Basin lived in a region offering

• lots of camas and salmon

• limited food and water

• large supplies of acorns

• crops of corn, beans, squash

Native Americans of the Southwest adapted to a desert climate by building

• thick walled adobe houses

• wooden houses out of cedar logs

• movable tipis made of buffalo skins

• homes clustered around mounds

The buffalo provided food, clothing, tools, and shelter for Native Americans of the

• Northwest Coast

• Eastern Woodlands

• Plateau Region

• Great Plains

Among the Iroquois-speaking people of the Eastern Woodlands, women were responsible for

• clearing the forests for farms

• building longhouses for shelter

• planting and harvesting crops

• trading with nearby villages

Native Americans in the Southeast built

• adobe villages on top of flat desert mesas

• towns clustered around large earthen mounds

• villages of longhouses in the forest near streams

• underground pit houses beside major rivers

Which region best had treeless grasslands, dense grasses, large buffalo herds?

• Southeast

• Great Plains

• Southwest

• Great Basin

Look at the handout of the map. Which region has the largest freshwater lakes?

• Northwest coast

• California

• Plateau

• Eastern Woodlands