Social Studies Vocabulary Practice 1

The land bridge opened about ​ (a)   Migrating animals moved across the land bridge in search of ​food. ​ (b)   , who are people who move from place to place, hunted these animals for food. As a result, they crossed from Asia to ​ (c)   on the land bridge. They were the first humans in the Americas.

• 36,000 B.C.
• Nomads
• North America
• 3,000 B.C.
• Patriots
• Europe
• Antarctica

Today, how do we know about the movements of people and animals so long ago? Scientists called ​ (a)   study the past. They have methods for learning about early humans. They collect ​ (b)   , or objects made or used by humans. These include tools, pottery, bones, and shells.

• archaeologists
• artifacts
• biologists
• tools
• meteorologists
• fossils

The earliest Texans were ​ (a)   . They lived in small groups and, as nomads, did not stay in one place for long. They followed and hunted herds of large animals, such as ​ (b)   and giant bison. After a few thousand years, the mammoth and giant bison died out. Then people hunted smaller animals, such as deer and the small bison.

• hunter-gatherers
• mammoth
• elephants
• horses
• soldiers
• priests

Individual Caddo groups joined together to form larger unions called ​ (a)   . They were loosely structured and linked. They were connected by ties of kinship, or shared ancestry. The Caddo traced their kinship through a person's mother. This is known as a ​ (b)   society.

• confederacies
• matrilineal
• generations
• allegiances
• shared
• chaotic

​ (a)   is a name for several Native American groups who lived along the ​ (b)   and spoke the same language. The Karankawa were nomads. They were ​​​ (c)   , and they moved every few weeks when the food ran out in an area.

• Karankawa
• Gulf Coast
• hunter-gatherers
• priests
• South Texas Plains
• Atakapa

Like the Karankawa, the ​ (a)   were nomads. Their environment was harsher than that of coastal groups, however. Their struggle for ​ (b)   was constant. By the early 1800s, many Coahuiltecan had died from ​ (c)   brought by Europeans. Others had joined other groups or moved to Mexico. Few remained in ​ (d)   .

• Coahuiltecan
• food
• diseases
• Texas
• Karankawa
• shelter
• war
• Mexico

The Atakapa were ​ (a)   who lived in the swampy regions, or bayous, of southeastern ​ (b)   . Alligators lived in the bayous and were an important resource for the ​ (c)   . The Atakapa hunted ​ (d)   for meat and used alligator oil as an insect repellent.

• hunter-gatherers
• Texas
• Atakapa
• alligators
• Caddo
• bison
• priests
• Mexico

The expedition of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado ​ (a)   a Pawnee native whom they called the Turk. He ​ (b)   them of a place on the Great Plains called Quivira that was said to be filled with treasure. In the spring of 1541, Coronado headed east with the Turk to find Quivira.

• met
• told
• meets
• see
• speaks
• spoke

Among the Spanish settlers were Catholic priests and nuns. Spain was a Roman Catholic nation. Its rulers wanted to convert the Native Americans to Catholicism. Priests and nuns built ​ (a)   , or religious settlements. Often the mission was the first Spanish settlement in an ​ (b)  

• missions
• area
• settlements
• country
• states
• stockades

Although Christopher Columbus was Italian, it was Spain that ​ (a)   , or paid for, his voyage. Columbus left Spain with three small ships in August 1492. He and his sailors finally​ (b)   land on October 12, 1492. Columbus came ashore on an island in the Caribbean Sea. He claimed it for Spain.

• funded
• saw
• fundings
• founded
• sees
• see