Iroquois Government and Culture

The Iroquois' name 'Haudenosaunee' meant:

• People who build longhouses

• People who make canoes

• People who bark together

• People who hunt together

The Iroquois used which type of government?

• Monarchy

• Confederacy

• Dictatorship

• Democracy

3. How was it different from the one the colonists had?

• It had more freedom than the colonists' version.

• It had stricter rules than the colonists' version.

• It was exactly the same as the colonists' version.

• It was less organized than the colonists' version.

What did the colonists learn from the Iroquois?

• Peace negotiation

• Iron forging

• Diplomacy

• Democracy

The Europeans sought to use the Iroquois' skills in:

• farming and pottery

• hunting and fur trading

• shipbuilding and navigation

• metalworking and mining

List three of the six nations in the Iroquois Confederacy.

• Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga

• Cherokee, Sioux, Apache

• Navajo, Hopi, Zuni

• Seminole, Creek, Choctaw

Women influenced the Iroquois government by:

• serving as chiefs

• choosing and advising the chiefs

• leading war parties

• trading with other nations

The fate of the Iroquois differed from most other Native American nations because:

• They formed alliances with both the British and the French.

• They were able to keep all of their ancestral lands.

• They were forced to move west much later than most other tribes.

• They split into factions, with some supporting the British and others the Americans during the Revolutionary War.

What did they think when they learned of the Iroquois form of government?

• They thought it was primitive and ignored it.

• They were impressed and inspired by its democratic principles.

• They believed it was too complex to understand.

• They thought it was identical to their own government.