Social Studies Chapter 3 Test

Who were the first inhabitants of North America?

• Paleo-Indians

• Mississippian Indians

• Archaic Indians

• Woodland Indians

Which is NOT an example of culture?

• Tent

• Spear

• Nuts and berries

• Forest

Where do many historians think the earliest Indians came from?

• From Europe with the Vikings

• From northeast Asia across the Bering Strait

• From South America traveling on foot

• From southeast Asia in boats

Which is NOT a way the Paleo-Indians used the mammoths they hunted?

• They made tents and clothing from mammoth skins

• They made tools and weapons from mammoth bones

• They made jewelry from mammoth tusks

• They ate mammoth meat

What are some artifacts and archaeological evidence that Archaic people left behind?

• Middens, jewelry, gravesites, atlatls, baskets

• Mounds, jewelry, gravesites, bows and arrows, atlatls, baskets

• Middens, mammoth bones, gravesites, atlatls, baskets

• Mounds, mammoth bones, gravesites, spears, pottery

Name two important Archaic archaeological sites in Tennessee.

• Chucalissa Site and Sellar's Farm

• Eva Site and Old Stone Fort

• Pinson Mounds and Icehouse Bottom

• Eva Site and Icehouse Bottom

What most changed the lifestyle of prehistoric Indians?

• They invented the atlatl

• They started building mounds

• They began to plant crops

• They made jewelry from shells and animal bones

What invention improved how Woodland Indians stored food?

• Baskets

• Pottery

• Fishooks

• Bow and arrows

Woodland and Mississippian Indians carried thousands of baskets of earth build _________.

• temples

• mounds

• palisades

• villages

What are some crops that Mississipian Indians grew?

• Corn, squash, sunflowers, and beets

• Beans, carrots, squash, and lettuce

• Squash, carrots, cucumbers, and lettuce

• Corn, beans, squash, and sunflowers