The Eastern Woodlands

What is a wall made of sharpened tree trunks to protect a village from enemies or wild animals?

• slash-and-burn

• palisade

• wampum

• council

What is a method of clearing land for farming that includes cutting and burning of trees?

• palisade

• longhouse

• wampum

• slash-and-burn

A ______________ is a round, bark-covered Native American shelter.

• palisade

• council

• wigwam

• confederation

A _________________ are beads made from cut and polished seashells used to keep record, send messages to other tribes, barter for goods, or give as gifts.

• longhouse

• wampum

• slash-and-burn

What is a long wooden building in which several related Iroquois families lived together?

• longhouse

• wigwam

• confederation

What is a loosely united group of governments working together called?

• slash-and-burn

• palisade

• council

• confederation

A __________ is a group that makes laws.

• confederation

• wampum

• council

True or False?

The Eastern Woodlands people settled in villages.

• True

• False

What were the two main language tribes in the northeastern part of the Eastern Woodlands called?

• The Teachers

• The Iroquois and the Algonquians

• The Iroquois and the Cavemen

• The Iroquois and the Snowmen

What did an Algonquian village look like?

• There were about 10 to 20 round wigwams grouped around a village common.

• Most of these villages were built around creeks.

• Most of these villages were built around rivers.

• All of the above