Chapter 1 Quiz on Early American History

A rectangular shelter build by the Iroquois.

• Hogan

• longhouse

• kiva

• igloo

A navajo home that was dome-shaped and made of wooden poles, tree bark, and mud.

• hogan

• igloo

• pueblo

• kiva

An American Indian village of the Southwest made of stone and adobe buildings built very close together.

• hogan

• pueblo

• kiva

• longhouse

a special room in a pueblo that was set aside for religious activities

• kiva

• hogan

• pueblo

• longhouse

What is a dome shaped house made of blocks of snow and ice or sod that was build by the nomadic Inuits?

• Olmec

• Aztec

• igloo

• hogan

In what culture area did the Navajos and the Pueblos live?

• Pacific Northwest

• Arctic

• Southwest

• California

In what culture area did the Cherokees live?

• Plains

• Plateau

• Southeast Woodlands

• Northwest Woodlands

Which describes the Nez Perces tribe?

• named by the French settlers

• followed buffalo herds

• name means "pierced nose"

• lived on the plateau

What suggest that the earliest Americans were hunters?

• tomols

• clovis points

• potlatches

• totem poles

What did the Iroquois sometimes use as money?

• wampum

• wattle and daub

• clovis points

• tomol