Chapter 2 Social Studies Quiz

How do scientists think people first came to North America?

• People walked on a land bridge from India

• People came from South America

• People crossed the glaciers from Europe

• People walked across a land bridge from Alaska and Asia

How did the first people in North America find food?

• They grew wheat

• They hunted animals and gathered wild plants

• the planted fruit trees

• the caught fish and birds

How did people's lives change when they stopped migrating to grow crops?

• Many people did not have enough food

• they returned to Asia

• their lives did not change

• More people survived because of the supply of food

The Mississippians

• built big buildings made of stone and mud

• were made of mounds or hills

• lived in the the Northeast

• controlled Central Mexico around 1300

The Native Americans that lived in the Northwest

• build stone homes

• hunted, fished, and gathered roots and berries

• were mostly farmers

• did not have enough food to eat

Northwest Native Americans (the Tlingit people) primarily used these resources.

• corn, beans, squash

• bears and geese

• small animals and wild plants

• salmon and tree bark

The Tlingit people

• lived in a society divided into clans

• made clothes from bark

• did not fish

• were one of the largest American Indian Groups in the Pacific Northwest

Families from the same clan

• lived together in big houses

• lived in separate houses along the river

• lived by different rules

• spoke different languages

What is a potlatch?

• a type of totem pole

• a house built of stone

• a feast that lasts for several days

• a boat used for fishing

The Southwest is

• forests

• high mountains

• close to the Atlantic Ocean

• mostly dry deserts