Chapter 1 The Native Americans

Native Americans of the Great Basin lived in a region offering

• lots of camas and salmon

• limited food and water

• large supplies of acorns

• crops of corn, beans and squash

Native Americans in the Southeast built

• adobe villages on top of flat desert mesas

• towns clustered around large earthen mounds

• underground pit houses beside major rivers

• villages of longhouses in the forest near streams

Among the Iroquois-speaking people of the Eastern Woodlands, women were responsible for

• planting and harvesting crops

• building longhouses for shelter

• trading with nearby villages

• clearing the forest for farms

Native Americans living on the Northwest Coast got most of their food

• buffalo herds

• their own farms

• rivers and the sea

• desert plants

To survive in different areas, native peoples had to learn to

• develop their own religions

• speak the same language

• build houses out of wood

• adapt to their environment

The buffalo provided food, clothing, tools and shelter for Native Americans of the

• Northwest Coast

• Eastern Woodlands

• Great Plains

• Plateau Region

How do scientists think people first migrated to the Americas?

• they paddled across the Bering Strait from Siberia in canoes

• They sailed from Polynesia in large ships

• They rowed from Iceland in sturdy kayaks

• They walked from Asia across the Beringia land bridge

Native Americans of the Southwest adapted to a desert climate by building

• thick walled adobe houses

• wooden houses out of cedar logs

• movable tipis made of buffalo skins

• homes clustered around mounds

Which region includes river valleys, mountains, coastal plains and swamps?

• The Great Plains

• The Northwest

• The Plateau

• The Southeast

Which region can you find dense forests?

• The Great Plains

• Eastern Woodlands

• The Southeast

• The Great Basin