North America and Louisiana's Peoples

Which detail belongs in the Clovis culture circle?

• a) traveled by boat to North America

• b) hunted mammoths and mastodons

• c) planted crops like corn and squash

• d) lived in the mountains during the winter

Which detail belongs in the Folsom culture circle?

• a) used mastodon hides for clothing and shelter

• b) developed a sophisticated social structure

• c) lived in permanent settlements all year

• d) made very large spearpoints

Which detail belongs in the center of the diagram?

• a) chose shamans as leaders

• b) built homes on frozen ice sheets

• c) performed ceremonial rain rituals

• d) hunted game with spears and atlatls

Which details belong in the Ancestral Pueblo column? Select the two correct answers.

• a) built cliff dwellings using stone and adobe

• b) made a coarse flour from seeds and grains

•  c) created underground ceremonial chambers

• d) learned how to grow corn in parts of Mexico

• d) learned how to grow corn in parts of Mexico

Which detail belongs in the Mound Builders column?

•  a) used baskets to heap large piles of dirt

•  b) made shoes out of yucca and other plants

• c) carved canoes out of trees for transportation

• d) did not practice any identifiable religious beliefs

Which culture formed mostly to the east of the Mississippi River?

• a) Clovis culture

• b) Folsom culture

• c) Ancestral Pueblo

• d) Mound Builders

These petroglyphs may tell the story of an important hunt. Which detail from the photograph

supports this idea?

• a) the footprints

• b) the wiggly lines

• c) the figure throwing a spear

• d) the figure with a large head

How did agriculture change civilizations in North America?

•  a) It made them abandon religion.

•  b) It made them hunter-gatherers.

• c) It made them travel by boat overseas.

• d) It made them create permanent settlements.

Where did the first settlers who arrived in North America by boat land?

• a) Atlantic coast

• b) Gulf of Mexico

• c) Caribbean Sea

• d) Pacific coast

What is one reason the Mound Builders built mounds?

• a)to bury their dead

• b) to hide their location

• c) to trade with other cultures

• d) to communicate with neighbors