MyWorld Chapter 1, Lesson 3

A system for making rules and decisions

• council

• confederacy

• government

• league

All American Indian groups formed traditional government.

• true

• false

Chose the correct option.

• Nomadic groups were big bands of Indians who had more formal systems of government.

• Nomadic groups were small bands of Indians who had more formal systems of government.

• Nomadic groups were small bands of Indians who did not have formal systems of governments, instead the father or the grandfather was the leader.

• Nomadic groups were large bands of Indians who did not have formal systems of government, instead the father or the grandfather was the leader.

A decision making body. It could be made up of a group's single leader or a small group of leaders.

• council

• confederacy

• commodity

• trading network

A group of Indians who join togehter and share the same goals, such as sharing resources or to protect each other.

• advisor

• confederacy

• league

• government

The system by which a group makes, shares, and uses good.

• commodity

• trading network

• Cahuilla

• economy

Which sentence is correct?

• The American Indians in the Pacific Northwest relied heavily on buffalo.

• American Indians of the Woodlands had a poor economy because of the poor climate in their region.

• The American Indians in the Pacific Northwest were skilled at catching fish, seals, and whales and used these resources for food but also to make tools and clothing.

• The Cahuilla in the Southwest were skilled at catching fish, seals, and whales and used these resources for food but also to make tools and clothing.

Commodity is

• a trade good that is a raw material and not manufactured.

• a system of trade routes that connected different areas.

• how groups of American Indians communicated with each other.

• when buffalo cause distruction with in the village of an American Indian tribe.

Trading networks were systems of trade routes that connected individual members of one tribe.

• True

• False