Pre-Columbian Era Review

The actual name for the Iroquois people is

• Algonquins

• Cherokee

• Seminoles

• Haudenosaunee

The term Haudenosaunee means

• cave dwellers

• wind talkers

• people of the longhouse

• people of the pueblo

The term confederacy means...

• a form of government where one person or group has all the power

• a form of government where there is a king or queen

• a form of government that contains city-states

• a form of government where many parts are joined together or unified

The primary reason the Iroquois formed a confederacy was to

• improve trade

• hunt more efficiently

• promote peace

• improve travel

The Iroquois term for chief is

• sachem

• wampum

• ramapough

• sacagawea

The main job of the Great Council was to

• organize religious festivials

• decide the guilt or innocence of an accused person

• make laws for the confederacy

• perform marriage ceremonies

If an Iroquois man and woman got married where would the new couple live?

• his clans longhouse

• her clans longhouse

• their own longhouse

• the eldest clan mother's longhouse

Where would you most likely find artifacts of ancient Iroquois civilzation?

• California

• Minnesota

• New York

• Washington

Choosing leaders by voting is an example of

• representative democracy

• federalism

• checks and balances

• habeus corpus

Clan mothers had the ability to remove elected sachems from being chief if they performed poorly. This is an example of

• representative democracy

• checks and balances

• federalism

• habeus corpus