Adena and Other Native American Cultures from

Mounds from which culture do we know were built in modern-day Ashland?

• Poverty Point

• Adena

• Hopewell

• Mississippian

What was the primary language spoken in these cultures?

• English

• Portuguese

• Choctaw

• We don’t know

Survivors of which culture were sold into slavery in the Caribbean?

• Poverty Point

• Adena

• Hopewell

• Mississippian

In what state can effigy mounds of the Poverty Point culture be found?

• California

• Louisiana

• Colorado

• South Dakota

In what type of governing community do archaeologists think the Poverty Point culture lived? (Hint: They had lots of villages ruled by one leader usually called a what?)

• Kingdom

• Chiefdom

What was the false assumption that Europeans made about the building of the Adena mounds?

• Colonists believed Native Americans were too sick and weak to build.

• Colonists believed Native Americans preferred building towers rather than mounds.

• Colonists believed Native Americans were incapable of planning and developing such impressive monuments.

What culture may have grown out of the Adena culture?

• Hopewell

• Mississippian

• Poverty Point

Which culture placed certain devices on babies’ heads so they would develop into certain fashionable shapes?

• Poverty Point

• Adena

• Hopewell

• Mississippian

In what kind of work did the Hopewell culture specialize?

• Stone

• Clay

• Ceramic

• Linen

Europeans also made false assumptions about the building of the Hopewell mounds. Which US President proved that it was truly Native Americans that built them?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Theodore Roosevelt

• George W. Bush

• Thomas Jefferson