Unit Test 1 Study Guide: The Earliest Americans

What is your name? (First initial and last name. For Example, A. Hommerson)

What does #3 on this map show?

• Panama Canal

• Where the Bering Sea is now, but an ancient land bridge used to cover.

• Where the Plains People used to live.

• Land covering Africa and South America

What route do we think that many earliest Americans took?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

What were mound builders known for?

• Hunting buffalo

• Building large cities

• Making tepees

• Planting sugar cane

Where did the Eastern Woodland People live?

• Wigwams and Longhouses

• Clifts

• Caves

• Mounds

What were the Plains people known for?

• Hunting deer and planting corn.

• Staying in the side of cliffs by caving houses into them.

• Building igloos and totem poles.

• Living as nomads and hunting buffalo.

All Native American people

• rode horses.

• lived in tepees.

• were dependent on nature.

• hunted buffalo.

The Iroquois League was

• A Native American sports league.

• a defense alliance of Eastern Woodland nations.

• A defence alliance of Plain people.

• An alliance of all Native Americans in North America concerning hunting and land distribution.

What 2 things were Native Americans of the Northwest known for?

• totem poles

• cliff dwellings

• buffalo

• the hot climate they lived in

• potlatches

Which 2 things that the Europeans introduced to the Plains people improved their lives?

• phones

• guns

• horses

• diseases

• cars