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Chapter 1 Study Guide

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What allowed Native Americans to live in one place all year round?

a)

They began to hunt bison

b)

They began to trade with each other

c)

They began to practice the same religion

d)

They began to practice agriculture.

2.

Which Native American civilization charted the movements of the sun, moon, and stars?

a)

Incans

b)

Aztecs

c)

Mayans

d)

Powhatan

3.

Which answer BEST explains why early Native Americans spread throughout North America?

a)

Their gods told them to keep moving.

b)

They used irrigation to farm.

c)

They thought their were more resources if they kept moving.

d)

They followed animal herds across the continent.

4.

How do most experts think the first people came to North America?

a)

by walking across a land/ice bridge between Asia and North America

b)

by sailing from Europe

c)

by sailing from Japan

d)

Humans were always in North America

5.

Which Native American group built huge earthen structures in the Mississippi River region?

a)

Mound Builders

b)

Cherokee

c)

Plains People

d)

Pueblo

6.

Which Native American people built the large city of Tenochtitlan and lived in Mexico?

a)

Pueblo

b)

Mayans

c)

Incans

d)

Aztecs

7.

Which statement is true about the early settlement of the Americas?

a)

Native Americans lived only in the Pacific Northwest until European explorers and settlers arrived in the 1500's.

b)

The earliest settlers in North American arrived by migrating northward from South America.

c)

The first people to settle in North America were the English. They started a colony in present-day Virginia.

d)

Hunter-gathers most likely crossed a land bridge from Asia into North America. They migrated southward into Central and South America over time.

8.

Which of the following answers is correct?

a)

The Iroquois lived in South America

b)

The Makah and Nootka lived in the Florida region.

c)

The Powhatans lived in Virginia.

d)

The Cherokee lived in the Pacific Northwest.

9.

Which of the following is an example of a Native American economy?

a)

The Pueblo of the Southwest sought help and advice from spirits they called kachinas.

b)

The Mound Builders built huge earthen structures.

c)

The League of the Iroquois was made up of five nations.

d)

The Powhatans built canoes and tools to catch fish in the waters that surrounded their homelands.

10.

Which of the following is an example of ways Native Americans changed their environments to improve their lives?

a)

In California, Native Americans burned shrubs so that grasses would grow. The grasses attracted deer.

b)

Native Americans from different regions spoke different languages.

c)

Native American women played the main role in raising children.

d)

All Native American groups had the same religion and government.

11.

Which Native American group lived in Alaska, built igloos, and hunted seals?

a)

Iroquois

b)

Powhatan

c)

Inuits

d)

Mayans

12.

Which Native American tribe lived in Washington and Oregon and built an economy based on animals of the sea?

a)

Cherokee

b)

Iroquois

c)

Makah and Nootka

d)

Pueblo

13.

Which of the following is an example of a Native American government?

a)

The Pueblo people dug irrigation canals to capture rain water and deliver it to their fields.

b)

Many Native Americans died from exposure to European diseases.

c)

The Iroquois formed a five-nation league that took decisions on behalf of all the nations.

d)

European explorers took native plants from Americas back to Europe and grew them there.

14.

The Pueblo people lived in a region of little rainfall. How did they change their environment so that they could grow crops?

a)

They burned shrubs.

b)

They dug irrigation canals.

c)

They built islands from sea shells.

d)

They cleared forest from the land.

15.

Which answer is the BEST definition of culture?

a)

Cultures refers to the type of farming a people develop.

b)

Culture is a system of warfare.

c)

Culture is the way of life of a people. It includes their art, rules, beliefs, and history.

d)

Culture is the system by which a people make, share, and use goods.

16.

Which of the following was a role of women in Native American societies?

a)

hunting and leading warfare

b)

trading with other Native people

c)

making clothing and other household goods

d)

protecting the community from enemies

17.

Which answer is true about Native American children?

a)

Male children were forced to fight to prepare for war.

b)

Children usually led hunting parties.

c)

A kachina raised all the children

d)

Children learned from storytellers, who passed on group's traditions.

18.

Which Native American nation in the Northern woodlands formed a union of nations called a league?

a)

Iroquois

b)

Pueblo

c)

Mayans

d)

Powhatans

19.

Which answer is true about Native American religions?

a)

Very few Native American people were very religious.

b)

Many Native American people adopted their religions from Asian civilizations.

c)

Religious wars were common among Native American nations.

d)

Many groups believed that animals and the earth had spirits.

20.

Which of the following is true about the daily lives of Native Americans?

a)

Men played the central role of hunting and protecting the community.

b)

Religion played little to no part of the lives of most Native Americans.

c)

Women hunted and fished for their entire village.

d)

Children were treated merely as a source of labor.

21.

Which answer is true about Native American cultures?

a)

Native American cultures were heavily influenced by Asian culture.

b)

The Aztecs imposed their culture on almost all of the Native American tribes.

c)

Native American cultures were diverse and environments affected the development of each Native American tribe.

d)

Native American cultures derived from European cultures.

22.

a system for making rules and decisions to help guide a group

a)

culture

b)

civilization

c)

government

d)

economy

23.

a system by which a group makes, shares, and uses goods

a)

economy

b)

council

c)

league

d)

adapt

24.

a system for bringing water to dry fields

a)

adapt

b)

council

c)

nomads

d)

irrigation

25.

a complex culture that has made advances in learning, as well as in system of government, religion, economics, and the arts

a)

civilization

b)

culture

c)

agriculture

d)

council