Native Americans Review

According to many experts, how did the first wave of people arrive in the Americas?

• Taking a boat across the Pacific Ocean from what is now Japan

• Walking over a land bridge in what is now the Bering Strait

• Swimming across a channel separating modern Russia and Alaska

• Canoeing across the Atlantic Ocean from northern Africa

Which of the following is a challenge that Native Americans have had to face?

• Being enslaved by European settlers

• Dying from diseases brought over by Europeans

• Being forced off their land by the U.S. government

• All of the above

The area known as __________ reaches from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River. The buffalo gave Native Americans in this region what they needed to make clothing, tools, utensils, and shelters. Tribes in this region built shelters that were easy to move, because they were nomadic. They needed to move to follow the buffalo herds. One such shelter was a cone-shaped teepee.

• Eastern Woodlands

• Great Plains

• Southeast

• Southwest

• Great Basin

Despite the hot, dry climate in the __________ region, Native American tribes who lived there were able to grow their main foods of corn, squash, and beans. Some people lived in cliff dwellings while others lived in pueblos, or towns. Since there weren’t lots of trees, houses were made of adobe, sun-dried bricks made of clay and straw.

• Eastern Woodlands

• Great Plains

• Southeast

• Southwest

• Great Basin

East of the Mississippi River we find the __________. Tribes in this area relied on forests and rivers. Trees were a very important natural resource to Native Americans in this region. They used trees for canoes, shelters, tools, and weapons. Native Americans in this region built longhouses from logs covered with bark. Some families lived in wigwams, which were dome-shaped homes covered in bark or grasses.

• Eastern Woodlands

• Great Plains

• Southeast

• Southwest

• Great Basin

The Native Americans of the __________ lived along the coast that stretched from Alaska to Washington. Instead of farming, the people of this region met their needs by fishing and hunting and by gathering plants and nuts. Since food was plentiful, the people of this region built permanent structures for their homes. The tribes built large, sturdy longhouses out of cedar trees. The villages were marked by totem poles, which displayed animals, spirits, important events in the family’s history, and the family’s social position.

• Eastern Woodlands

• Pacific Northwest

• Southeast

• Southwest

• Great Basin

The __________ region stretches from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. American Indians in this area include the Caddo, Natchez, Cherokee, Creek, Timucua and Seminole. The long, warm summers and mild winters made growing plants like corn, squash, beans and pumpkins easy. The Native Americans of this region built houses mostly of wood with thatched roofs.

• Eastern Woodlands

• Pacific Northwest

• Southeast

• Southwest

• Great Basin

The __________ region is a low-lying region between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. It is a dry area of grass, scraggly trees and sagebrush. Native people of this area traveled a lot, searching for food and looking for shelter from the extreme heat of the summer and harsh cold of the winter. If the weather was nice, people camped outdoors. At other times, they slept in pole-and-brush huts or in caves in the hills and canyons. Tribes would often live in lean-to structures that could be easily set up and taken apart.

• Eastern Woodlands

• Pacific Northwest

• Southeast

• Southwest

• Great Basin

Which of the following people is responsible for mis-naming the original inhabitants of the Americas?

• Leif Erikson

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Amerigo Vespucci

Lived in longhouses and wigwams.

• Plains

• Cheyenne

• Eastern Woodlands