First Americans

How did American Indians in the Southeast live?

• lived in wooden house in the forest
• lived in towns around large earthen mounds
• adobe villages on flat mesas
• underground pit houses  by major rivers

How do scientists think people migrated from Asia to the Americas during the Ice Age? 

• sailed across a narrow strait
• traveled south from Canada
• Traveled across a land bridge
• sailed to Mexico and drifted north

How do historians learn how American Indians lives so long ago

• read their journals
• live in their shelters
• speak to the families
• study their artifacts

Why did the first Americans migrate from Asia to the Americas?

• searching for food
• to locate farmland
• flee from hostile tribes
• search for a better climate

What is the most important to the survival of the American Indians? 

• home ownership
• trading with other tribes for needs
• ability to use natural resorces
• warm and mild climate

Which of these best explains why different cultural regions formed in North America?

• believing they were part of a community of living things
• groups choose where to live based on special skills
• groups needed to separate themselves from others
• groups adapted to the environment where they settled

How is it possible for the mesa people to grow corn in the desert?

• believing they were part of a community of living things
• dug irrigation ditches
• traded crops for water
• planted drought tolerant corn

Plains Indians wore clothing made from animal hides. What activity was most important to them?

• believing they were part of a community of living things
• mining
• hunting
• gathering

Which of these was a strong influence on the kind of shelters used by each Indian group?

• wealth
• climate
• religion
• education

Which of these enabled American Indians to settle in permanent villages?

• trading
• hunting
• herding
• farming