Unit 1 Study Guide

The Yuchi word, Tana-tsee, refers to a “meeting place” and “a place where the rivers _____________.”

The __________________ people invented new types of weapons and tools.

• Paleo

• Archaic

• Woodland

• Mississippian

Early people of Tennessee built mounds for _________________ reasons and burial of the _________.

• agricultural, dead

• personal, dead

• govermental, dead

• religious, dead

What number on the map shows where the Cherokee Indians lived?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Dragging Canoe feared that settlers would eventually take all of the Native American's land.

• True

• False

Are the following Cherokee characteristics examples of "craftsmanship" or "artistry":

woven baskets, carved pipes, pottery, copper armbands

• craftsmanship

• artistry

• NA

• NA

Are the following Chicasaw characteristics examples of craftsmanship" or "artistry": jewelry from conch shells, buffalo robes, ribbon shirts, shoes from deer skin

• craftsmanship

• artistry

• NA

• NA

What happened after the Cumberland Gap was discovered?

• Traveling to Tennessee became more dangerous

• The population of pioneers and colonists in the Tennessean region dramatically increased.

• The British were successful in limiting the expansion of new American colonies in the West.

• NA

Who established the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap in 1775?

• John Sevier

• James Robertson

• Daniel Boone

• Thomas Spencer

Nancy Ward was a “_____________ Woman” and political leader in the Cherokee tribe.