Soc. Stud. Ch 1 The First Americans

What is culture?

• A group of people who make laws.

• Family members who lived before me

• An organized society.

• The way of life shared by a group of people which contains their art, language, ideas beliefs, and history.

What is economy?

• A system that brings water to crops

• Shared beliefs of a group of people

• A system a group makes to trade and use goods (useful things)

• An igloo where the Inuit people live

What region had American Indians whose leaders wore war bonnets?

• Great Plains

• Pacific Northwest

• Inuit of the far North

• the Southwest

The Inuit lived by the ______.

• rivers (rios)

• desert (desierto)

• sea (mar)

• mountains (montanas)

The First People moved _________ after crossing the land bridge. They needed a more mild climate.

• N - North (norte)

• S - South (sur)

• E - East (este)

• W - West (oeste)

American Indians changed the land they lived on by clearing the land of trees, and ____________ to water crops.

• building houses

• making totem poles

• digging canals

• digging lakes

The Inuit people lived in houses called ________. They hunted whales and seals and lived by the sea.

• teepees

• cliff houses

• igloos

• classrooms

The people of the Southwest lived in cliff houses and used _______ to water crops.

• igloo

• teepee

• bison

• canals

The people of the Great Plains lived in teepees and traveled to hunt _________.

• whales

• seals

• bison

• tomatoes

American Indian women had jobs including- _________.

• hunting

• keeping the community safe

• making weapons

• planting and caring for crops