Ch 1 Exam (US History)

How do scientists think people first migrated to the Americas?

• They walked from Asia across the Beringia land bridge

• They sailed from Polynesia in large caneos

• They paddled in across the Bering Strait from Siberia in kayaks

• They rowed from Iceland in sturdy wooden boats

To Survive in different areas, native peoples had to learn to

• develop their own religions.

• build houses out of wood.

• adapt to their environment

• speak the same language

Native Americans living on the Northwest Coast got most of their food from

• buffalo herds

• desert plants

• their own farms

• rivers and the sea

Native Americans of the Great Basin lived in a region offering

• lots of camas and salmon

• limited food and water

• large supplies of acorns

• crops of corn, beans, and squash

Native Americans of the Southwest adapted to a dessert climate by building

• thick walled adobe houses

• wooden houses our of cedar logs

• movable tipis made of buffalo skins

• homes clustered around mounds

The buffalo provided food, clothing, tools, and shelter for Native Americans of the

• Northwest Coast

• Eastern woodlands

• Plateau Region

• Great plains

Among Iroquois speaking people of the Eastern Woodlands, women were responsible for

• clearing the forest for farms

• building longhouses for shelter

• planting and harvesting crops

• trading with nearby villages

Native Americans in the Southeast built

• adobe villages on top of flat desert mesas

• towns clustered around large earthen mounds

• Villages of longhouses in the forest near streams

• underground pit houses beside major rivers

Use this map and your social studies knowledge to answer the questions below.

Which region on the map best fits the description of its environment?

-treeless grasslands

- dense grasses

- large buffalo herds

• Southeast

• Great Plains

• Southwest

• Great Basin

se this map and your social studies knowledge to answer the questions below.

Which region on the map has the largest freshwater lakes?

• Northwest Coast

• California

• Plateau

• Eastern Woodlands