Chapter One: The First Americans

What is the definition of culture?

• an organized and advanced society.

• A group of relatives who lived in the past.

• The way people make rules and decisions.

• The way of life shared by a group of people.

What is an economy?

• A system a group uses to make and exchange goods.

• A system a group creates to make rules and decisions.

• A traded good that is raw material and not manufactured.

• A trade agreement between groups in a league or nation.

Which answer arranges American Indian groups in the order in which they settled from north to south to west?

• Great Plains, Pacific Northwest, Inuit

• Inuit, Pacific Northwest, Great Plains

• Pacific Northwest, Inuit, Great Plains

• Pacific Northwest, Great Plains, Inuit

Which action is the clearest example of an American Indian group changing its environment?

• Sailing across the Pacific Ocean.

• Making peace with a warring group.

• Diggin canals to transport water to crops.

• Migrating across a temporary land bridge.

Which statement about the migration of people to North America is most widely accepted?

• The first Americans arrived by boat when frozen sea melted due to climate

• The first Americans were able to travel over a land bridge due to the climate.

• The first Americans started growing food when the climate changed 15,000 years ago.

• The first Americans started hunting and gathering when the climate changed 10,000 years ago.

Which statement best supports the argument that women had a voice in some American Indian government?

• Women decided what meals to make and when to eat them.

• Women ruled their families and raised children until their teens.

• Women decided when to pack up their homes and migrate elsewhere.

• Women had power to choose or remove the men who sat on councils.

Which belief best supports an American Indian's claim that it is necessary to pray for permission before a hunt?

• We believe our religion is important to our culture.

• We believe the animals have spirits of their own.

• We believe in passing our traditions onto our children.

• We believe in using as much of the animal as possible.

How did the first Americans most likely come to North America?

• They migrated over time as individuals.

• They mirgrated all at once as individuals.

• They migrated over time in several large groups.

• They migrated all at once in individual family units.