5th Grade Early U.S. History - Chapter 1 Practice Test

The earliest people who migrated into North America did so by:

• Traveling across the Atlantic in large ships

• Crossing the Atlantic from Africa as slaves

• Crossing the Bering Land Bridge during an Ice Age

• Migrating from South America

The _____________________ was a bridge between northeastern Asia and present-day Alaska.

• Tappan Zee Bridge
• Strait of Gibraltar
• Indian Migration Bridge
• Bering Land Bridge

The people who crossed the bridge into Alaska between 38,000 and 10,000 BC were called 

• Paleo-Indians
• Paleo-Dieters
• Aztecs
• Maya

____________________ is the movement of animals and people from one region to another.

• erosion
• hitchhiking
• migration
• culture

People who hunted animals and gathered wild plants for food were 

• hunter-gatherers
• paleo-gatherers
• misinformed about proper diets
• vegetarians

___________________is a region that includes what is now Mexico and  parts of Central America.

• North America
• South America
• Central America
• Mesoamerica

The ____________________built the first pyramids in the Americas.

• Maya
• Olmec
• Aztec
• Inca

The________________ were fierce warriors whose superior military ability was key to their success.

• Aztec
• Olmec
• Maya
• Inca

The_______________________ began as a small tribe in the Andes Mountains of South America.

• Aztec
• Olmec
• Maya
• Inca

 Large amounts of water froze into huge, moving sheets of ice called 

• icebergs
• glaciers
• Antarctica
• ice sleds