Chapter 1 Test: The Early Americans

True/False: The Maya were the first Americans to use horses and wheeled carts.

• true

• false

True/False: The the first to use horses were the Native Americans of the Plains but not until the 1600s.

• true

• false

True/False: Archeologists do not know the exact date when the first people appeared in North America.

• true

• false

True/False: Some early Americans hunted bison and mammoths.

• true

• false

True/False: The Anasazi built mud-brick dwellings called mounds.

• true

• false

True/False: The Anasazi built great stone dwellings called pueblos.

• true

• false

True/False: The Cherokee lived in the northern most region of North America.

• true

• false

True/False: The Iroquois lived in the northern most region of North America.

• true

• false

Match the following

• clan

• group of related families

• complex

• a building

• structure

• scientific way to determine age of an artifact

• carbon dating

• rough calculation of a number

• estimate

• highly detailed

The first Native Americans probably reached North America by crossing which of the following?

• Alaskan Sea

• Bering Strait

• Atlantic Ocean

• Pacific Ocean