American Indians Test

Which of the following is an example of how Eastern Woodland Native Americans adapted to their environment?

• They found many different ways to use trees

• They were members of both a family and a clan

• They sometimes removed trees from an area so they could farm

• They sometimes had conflicts over hunting areas

What was the main reason people in this region traded?

• They wanted to own as many goods as they could

• They wanted to use rivers and lakes as trade routes

• They wanted to get goods that could not be found or made from the resources they had

• They had few resources of their own

What best describes the five nations of Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois, League before they formed a confederation?

• The five nations lived in peace and got along well

• The five nations did not interact with each other

• The five nations were mainly training partners

• The five nations were often in conflict with one another

How was the land viewed by most Eastern Woodlands American Indians?

• Land was something to be owned and cared for by only chiefs and other leaders

• Land was only important because it could be used for hunting

• Land should be divided up among families and fenced off

• Land was something you could use but not really own

Built homes using stone and clay bricks because there were few trees

• Southwest adaption

• Southwest modification

• Northwest modification

• Northwest adaption

hunted and gathered from forest

• Southwest

• Northwest

Dug ditches to irrigate crops

• Northwest adaptation

• Southwest Modification

• Northwest Modification

• Southwest adaptation

Cut down trees to build homes and canoes

• Southwest

• Northwest modification

• Northwest adaptation

• Great Plains

Used wood from forest to build homes and canoes and built villages near coasts where land was flat

• Northwest modification

• Southwest modification

• Southwest adaptation

• Northwest adaptation

Clay pots to store food and water

• Southwest

• Northwest