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American Indian Life in Texas

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How did the first people arrived to North America?

a)

By crossing a land bridge that linked Asia and the Americas

b)

By crossing the Pacific Ocean

c)

By crossing a land bridge that linked North and South America

d)

By crossing the Atlantic Ocean

2.

How did the first people of Texas get resources that not be found or made where they lived?

a)

By gathering

b)

By hunting

c)

By farming

d)

By trading

3.

After the last Ice Age ended, how did first people adapt?

a)

They no longer farmed.

b)

They hunted larger animals.

c)

They didn't saved seeds any longer.

d)

They hunted small animals

4.

In the illustration, what is a fact about the Caddo?

a)

They lived in portable houses made of grass and skins.

b)

They lived in teepees made of wood and skins.

c)

They lived in settlements in cone-shaped houses.

d)

They were nomadic hunter-gatherers living near the coast.

5.

What tribe lived along the coast of Texas and also inland, with good hunting grounds?

a)

The Wichita

b)

The Comanche

c)

The Caddo

d)

The Karankawa

6.

How did the Karankawa and the Caddo governed themselves?

a)

The Karankawa had were in clusters led by a chief; the Caddo had confederacy.

b)

Both had confederacies.

c)

The Caddo had were in clusters led by a chief; the Karankawa had confederacy.

d)

The Karankawa had a pueblo led by a chief; the Caddo had family banks led by a chief.

7.

Explain the adaption of the use of the horse to the Comanche on the Great Plains?

a)

Horses gave them control of the land.

b)

Horses helped them fight with the enemies.

c)

Horses helped them hunt buffalo.

d)

All the of answers.

8.

Identify the correct tribe that settled in farming communities along the Rio Grande.

a)

The Comanche

b)

The Lipan Apache

c)

The Pueblo Jumano

d)

The Mescalero Apache

9.

In the illustration, why did the Jumano set up camp?

a)

to trade shells, feathers, and turquoise

b)

to paint their bodies

c)

to farm

d)

to hunt buffalo

10.

What was different between the Indians before the Ice Age and after the Ice Age?

a)

They hunted.

b)

Both hunted and gathered.

c)

They farmed.

d)

They gathered.