Virginia Studies Native People

What is the name of the large Indian town used for hundreds of years before the arrival of the settlers? 

• Werewocomoco
• Roanoake
• Wyoming
• Williamsburg

Which of the following crops were essential to Native American agriculture?

• Beans, Cotton, Squash
• Corn, Indigo, Pumpkins
• Beans, Squash, Corn
• Rice, Corn, Squash

Which American Indian language group lived in the Piedmont?

• Monacan
• Cherokee
• Powhatan

Which American Indian group lived in the Tidewater region?

• Powhatan
• Cherokee
• Monacan

A tribe that lived in southwestern Virginia and southern Virginia and spoke the Iroquoian language was the _____________________________

• Powhatan

• Cherokee

• Monacan

• Mattaponi

Christopher Columbus called the people he encountered "Indians" because -

• he thought he was in North America

• he thought he was in Africa

• he thought he was in the Indies

• he thought he was in Jamestown

Who were the first group of people to live in Virginia?

• Scots-Irish

• American Indians

• African Americans

• English

Virginia’s American Indians left evidence of their presence in all regions of Virginia. What kind of evidence did they leave?

• canoes and paddles

• nuts and berries

• teepees and villages

• arrowheads and pottery

Which language was spoken by American Indians who lived near the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean?

• Cherokee

• Siouan

• Iroquoian

• Algonquian

Which tribe in the Piedmont region

spoke the Siouan language?

• Nottoway tribe

• Cherokee tribe

• Monocan tribe

• Powhatan tribe