Early Inhabitants of Pennsylvania

How do historians believe native tribes traveled to North America 12,000 years ago?

• an ice bridge
• by canoe
• by horseback

When the first explorers and European settlers arrived, there were two large groups of Native Americans: the Algonquians and the Iroquois. How were these groups classified?

• by area
• by language
• by government

True or False: Women had a great deal of power among the Native American tribes in Pennsylvania.

• True
• False

True or False: Native Americans did not have a written language.

• True
• False

The Iroquois started off as five feuding tribes, so they formed a league of tribes to keep from fighting each other. What was this league called?

• clan
• Iroquois Confederacy
• council

Someone who studies past cultures through actual objects that are found are called

• archaeologists
• paleontologists
• scientists

Which European country claimed the region of Florida?

• Spain
• France
• England

Which European country claimed the region of the Great Lakes?

• Spain
• France
• England

Which European country claimed the region of Pennsylvania?

• Spain
• France
• England

By the early 1600s, the English had already started colonies where?

• Jamestown, Virginia
• Plymouth, Massachusetts
• All of the Above