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North American Natives - All Regions

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 1hrs 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the five tribes that make up the Iroquois League

a)

Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Mohawk, Seneca

b)

Narragansett, Pequot, Montauk, Deleware, and Cayuga

c)

Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole, and Creek

d)

Mohican, Montauk, Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo

2.

What issues was NOT covered in the excerpt from the Iroquois Constitution.

a)

Men were the ultimate leaders of the council.

b)

Land was not owned but given to all.

c)

Women were allowed to come in front of council to make decisions.

d)

If a foreign nation comes in, it can have its own system of government but can not wage warfare against others.

3.

Iroquois (and other Native American religion) belief that all things in nature; animals, plants, trees, rocks ... have spirits.

a)

Animism

b)

Dream Catcher

c)

Wampum

d)

Manetas

4.

What were the homes called that the Iroquois lived in that would allow for many people and room for a fire?

a)

Wigwams

b)

Plank Houses

c)

Longhouses

d)

Pueblos

5.

What tribe? Many groups that lived in the Eastern Woodlands of the Northeastern Region, present day New York State. This region had a wampum belt and constitution.

a)

The Hopi

b)

The Algonquian

c)

The Creek

d)

The Iroquois

6.

What tribe? Men were the leaders, they used canoes and toboggans, lived in wigwams, and reside in the most extensive region territory - From Canadian territory below the Hudson Bay and between the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains.

a)

The Algonquian

b)

The Navajo

c)

The Iroquois

d)

The Mississippian Mound Builders

7.

A handmade willow hoop, on which is woven a net or web. May also include sacred items such as certain feathers or beads. The circular shape represents the circle of life, with no beginning and no end. The device was known to catch the good dreams.

a)

Dream Catcher

b)

Wampum

c)

Totem Poles

d)

Travois

8.

These belts were made of shells to commemorate formal statements. They recorded history, important events, and alliances with other tribes.

a)

Hiawatha Wampum Belt

b)

Council Fire Belt

c)

Iroquois League Belt

d)

Cedar Wigwam Belt

9.

Two Native Americans, one from the Northeast and the other from the Northwest discuss their living arrangement. Who can argue that they have more room, better materials, and stronger foundations for their home, than the other? Choose the region and the name of their home.

a)

Longhouses

b)

Plank Houses

c)

The Northeast

d)

The Northwest

10.

What type of farmers are the Pueblo, Navajo, and Anasazi?

a)

Hunters and Gathers

b)

Dry Farming & Irrigation engineers

c)

Vegetarian Farmers

11.

What are the five big tribes that make up the Algonquin Confederacy.

a)

Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Mohawk, Seneca

b)

Narragansett, Mohican, Montauk, Deleware, and Munsee

c)

Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole, and Creek

d)

Mohican, Montauk, Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo

12.

The Algonquian word has many meanings, choose two of them.

a)

refers to the responsibility that they give to their shaman

b)

refers to "A place for spearing fish and eels"

c)

refers to people that use "toboggans and canoes"

d)

refers tot he language or to the group of tribes that speak related dialects.

13.

What tribe gave their sachem more power and responsibility than any others? In almost all of the regions we studied we learned of the sachem. This tribe's sachem was a medicine man, traffic to the spirit world, ward off evil spirits, and was also a dream interpreter.

a)

Iroquois

b)

Pueblo

c)

Tlingit

d)

Algonquian

14.

What kind of homes did the Navajo tribe live in?

a)

Wickiup

b)

Hogan

c)

Adobe

d)

Longhouse

15.

The THREE SISTERS ...

a)

Corn

b)

sunflowers

c)

rice

d)

Beans

e)

Squash

16.

Choose the ONE role that was NOT a role of women in the Southwest Native American Tribe?

a)

Owned Property

b)

Made moccasins, blankets, and clothing

c)

Traced Family Heritage

d)

Made Pottery and Dyes

e)

Hauled Water

17.

Who do the Native Americans of the Cherokee tribe give credit to for creating a written language?

a)

Sacagawea

b)

Pocahontas

c)

Squanto

d)

Sequoyah

18.

The US states of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and Mexico are called ...

a)

The Four Sisters

b)

The Four Tribes

c)

The Four Corners

19.

The round structures in the pueblo towns used for religious ceremonies are called ...

a)

Mesa

b)

Kiva

c)

Kachina

d)

Pueblo

20.

A peaceful tribe, excellant farmers, lived in pueblos and used the Kachina to ask for rain.

a)

The Hopi

b)

The Tlingit

c)

The Navajo

d)

The Iroquois

21.

If we were the archeologist studying a specific region of North America, and we stumbled upon a totem pole, weaved baskets and whale bones, what region might we be in?

a)

Mississippi Region

b)

Northwest

c)

Great Plains

d)

Southwest

e)

Northeast

22.

What are two advanced developments that the Northwest DID NOT have that they Southwest did?

a)

hunting and gathering

b)

pottery and agriculture

c)

religion and government

23.

What are the five big tribes of the Southeast?

a)

Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Mohawk, Seneca

b)

Narragansett, Mohican, Montauk, Deleware, and Munsee

c)

Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole, and Creek

d)

Mohican, Montauk, Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo

24.

What reason is given to explain why blankets are a huge part of ones social status in the Northwest?

a)

Because it was so hot in this area, natives would wrap themselves up in the blankets

b)

Because it was so cold in this area, natives always had blankets to keep them warm

c)

Because wealth and material items were a huge part of their lives, blankets, were considered currency

25.

What type of house did the Northwest Tlingit people live in?

a)

Plank House

b)

Wigwam

c)

Hogan

d)

Longhouse

26.

Archeologists can tell that the Mississippi people had a diverse trading network ...

a)

because maps were found that showed very detailed trade routes.

b)

because letters were found addressed to the chief that explained a detailed diverse trading network.

c)

because items that were not natural to the area were found, like shells, obsidian, copper, and mica.

d)

because stories have been told over generations that tell us so.

27.

What is an "effigy mound" or "geo" form?

a)

Mounds that were of geometric shapes and were covered with the skeletons of dead bodies.

b)

Mounds that looked like specific animals that had flattops.

c)

Mounds that had the Great Sun buried in them.

28.

What do architectural historians believe the relationship is between the mound shapes and the spaces around them?

a)

They believe that the shape of the mound and the space revolves around cosmology, the sunrise and sunset, solstices and equinoxes and the underworld.

b)

They believe that the shape of the mound and the space revolves around the shape of bears, serpents, or birds.

c)

They believe that the shape of the mound and the space revolves around the Great Sun.

29.

Explorer who theorized that the mound builders had migrated from Mexico because they had corn and horticulture techniques.

a)

Hernando DeSoto

b)

Antonine Le Page du Prat

c)

Albert Gallatin

d)

William Bartram

30.

A ceremony held by the Great Plains Native Americans in which they would pray to their creator for aid. It was held in the summer and men would buffalo hunt

a)

Buffalo Dance

b)

The Hunters Dance

c)

The Great Creators Dance

d)

Sun Dance

31.

What type of homes did the Great Plains Native Americans live in as nomads?

a)

Plank Houses

b)

Teepees

c)

Adobe Mounds

d)

Wigwams

32.

Clay used to build the pueblo houses is called?

a)

earthenware

b)

porcelain

c)

hard, rock slab

d)

adobe

33.

This civilization constructed the largest man-made earth mound on the North American continent.

a)

Illini Wek

b)

Adena

c)

Cahokia

d)

Oneota

34.

What happens during a potlatch?

a)

To gain higher social status, one would give away their material belongings at a ceremony providing food and entertainment.

b)

To gain higher social status, one would hold a ceremony in which tribe members would bring them gift, food, and entertainment.

c)

To gain higher social status, one would hold a ceremony in which tribe members would bring them gift, food, and entertainment and slaves would be sacrificed.

35.

Choose all of the characteristics of the Northwest Natives social system. *** Choose 3

a)

Aristocrats inherited their status from their mothers line.

b)

Common people could gain status by potlatches but were never seen as higher class.

c)

It is frowned upon to not show up to a potlatch, it shows disrespect.

d)

It was common for common people to become of high status and even become the Chief.

e)

It was common for women to become slaves if they would not stay married to the husband their father chose.