Lesson 2: From Clovis to Mississippian

The first Americans crossed a land bridge over the ____.

• Bering Strait

• Atlantic Ocean

• Indian Ocean

• Mississippi River

The First People came to America because they were ____.

• running away

• looking for a home

• chasing their food

• looking for a warmer climate

The coastal route theory says that some people may have migrated to the Americas by ____.

• boat

• walking

• skating on ice

• traveling on the beaches

The Clovis and Folsom cultures were nomadic (moving from one place to another).

• True
• False

Clovis spearpoints are some of the oldest fossils ever found in the Americas.

• True
• False

"Prehistoric" means ____.

• before textbooks were written

• before the Common Era

• before written records

• before people came to the Americas

The Clovis and Folsom peoples were named after ____.

• mammoths

• bow and arrow

• pottery

• spearpoints

The Clovis and Folsom people were in North and South America.

• True
• False

Which people built low stone walls that were a form of irrigation?

• Ancestral Pueblo

• Clovis and Folsom

• Mississippian Culture

• Mound Builders

The _____ people settled in one place and were farmers in the desert.

• Clovis and Folsom

• Mississippian Culture

• prehistoric

• Ancestral Pueblo