Chapter 5 Lesson 1

Many scientists believe that people first arrived in Louisiana about

• 35, 000 years ago.

• 500, 000 years ago.

• 15, 000 years ago

• 1700 years ago.

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Artifacts, such a spear points, are

• objects made by people in the past

• a settlement in which was founded in Louisiana like Poverty Point.

• an Indian group

Early Native Americans moved from place to place in search of

• wild animals

• food

• housing

• a better living environment

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Native Americans used large knives to hunt animals such as deer

• True

• False

One Native American group started a settlement at

• Poverty Point

• Alexandria

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A settlement is

• a home made from grass and wood.

• a letter from the Native American tribe president.

• a type of Native American candy

• a place where people live.

______________ are raised hills that people built from the land at Poverty Point.

• Mountains

• Ridges

• Mounds

Scientists found stone artifacts at Poverty Point. What were these stones used for. Restate and answer. Use complete sentences and punctuation.

By the year 1500, several Native American groups lived in what is now Alexandria.

• True

• False

By the year 1500, several Native American groups lived in what is now Louisiana. These groups included the

• Natchitoches, Alexandria, and Pineville, and Shreveport

• Natchez, Caddo, and Choctaw, and the Chitimacha

• Natchitoches, Melrose, and Clementine, and Hunter