Early Americans

The land bridge that connected Asia and North America is called

• Beringia

• the Arctic Circle

• Nanavut

• the Four Corners

The people who lived in Beringia were

• Europeans.

• South Americans

• farmers

• hunter-gatherers.

The earliest Americans came

• from Asia.

• with the Vikings.

• with Columbus.

• from England.

The first native people of the Americas to raise crops, specifically corn, lived seven thousand years ago in

• Beringia.

• Mexico.

• Canada.

• Florida.

A dome-shaped shelter made from snow blocks is called a(n)

• wigwam.

• igloo.

• longhouse.

• ice sheet.

A special Inuit canoe made from animal hide is called a

• canyon

• lichen.

• kayak.

• tundra.

The Ancestral Pueblo were

• Cherokees.

• Haudenosaunee.

• Inuit.

• cliff dwellers.

The Ancestral Pueblo lived in an area that is now called

• Beringia.

• the Eastern Woodlands.

• the Southeast.

• the Four Corners.

Because they were farmers, the Mound Builders

• migrated often.

• stayed in one place.

• lived in the Southwest.

• hunted buffalo.

The population of Native Americans decreased rapidly because Europeans brought

• spices.

• ships

• germs.

• gold.