Chapter 2 - Quiz

The Pueblo peoples modified their environment by --

• traveling long distances to gather wood

• irrigating land for farming

• storing food in containers

• making kachinas

One of the most important resources for the Plains Indians was -

• the forest

• the buffalo

• the sod

• the whale

The Iroquois tried to make peace by --

• forming a confederation

• leaving the Eastern Woodlands

• building a longhouse

• building palisades around the villages

The Clovis point and atlatl are two examples of how the ancient Indians make improvements in

• their living conditions

• transportation

• technology

• medicine

What natural resources did the Pueblo people use to build their houses?

• adobe, stones, mud, and wood from pine and juniper trees

• grass, boulders, and oak trees

• earthen blocks called sod

• ice and snow.

Which groups of Native Americans call the Northwest Coast and the Arctic home?

• Hopis, Zunis, Chinooks

• Comanches, Kiowas, Cheyennes

• Chinooks, Makahs, Inuit

• Maya, Olmec, Makahs

Who went on buffalo hunts

• Desert Indians

• Northwest Coast Indians

• Plains Indians

• Eastern Woodlands Indians

What did the Algonquian tribes use to keep records and send messages?

• wigwam

• wampum

• palisades

• potlatches

The government made up of the five largest Iroquois tribes was called -

• the Iroquois Union

• the Woodlands Confederacy

• the Iroquois League

• the Law of Great Peace

Why did Eastern Woodlands people use slash-and-burn agriculture?

• They did not know how to farm

• They discovered that fertilizing with ash worked better than fertilizing with fish

• There was plenty of forest and not enough farmland

• They had no tools powerful enough to cut down big trees to clear the forest for their fields.