Chapter 1: Peoples of the Southeast

Which geographic feature had the greatest effect on the Cherokee people? (5.7, 5.13.a, 5.13.b)

• a) Appalachian Mountains

• b) Mississippi River delta

• c) Atlantic Ocean

• d) Gulf of Mexico

Which nation's people made these items? (5.13.c)

• a) the Catawba

• b) the Seminole

• c) the Cherokee

• d) the Mississippians

How is a person's clan determined in the cultures of the Southeast? (5.13.c)

• a) by birth

• b) by a test

• c) by personal choice

• d) by a religious leader

In Southeast nations, why were parts of towns designated as red and white? (5.13.c)

• a) One part was responsible for farming, and the other was responsible for hunting.

• b) One part was responsible for war, and the other was responsible for peace.

• c) One part was for villagers, and the other was for travelers.

• d) One part was for men, and the other was for women.

What was the purpose of the sport of stickball? Select the two correct answers. (5.13.c)

• a) to bring children into adulthood

• b) to gain political standing

• c) to choose a new chief

• d) to settle disputes

• e) to have fun

What is celebrated at the midsummer busk? (5.13.c)

• a) the corn harvest

• b) the invention of stickball

• c) the initiation into a new clan

• d) the formation of the Creek Confederacy

Who created this syllabary? (5.13.c)

• a) Sequoyah

• b) Sacagawea

• c) chiefs of the Creek Confederacy

• d) Europeans who studied the Creeks

Which detail describes the Catawba ?

• a) built palisades

• b) played stickball

• c) held a midsummer busk

• d) were part of the Creek Confederacy

Which detail describes the Cherokee ?

• a) spoke Siouan

• b) fished shellfish

• c) used shells as tools

• d) had a written alphabet