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Social Studies: Virginia Native Americans Review

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the name of the large Indian town used for hundreds of years before the arrival of the settlers? 
a)
Werewocomoco
b)
Roanoake
c)
Wyoming
d)
Williamsburg
2.
Which of the following crops were essential to Native American agriculture?
a)
Beans, Cotton, Squash
b)
Corn, Indigo, Pumpkins
c)
Beans, Squash, Corn
d)
Rice, Corn, Squash
3.
Where did American Indians live prior to the arrival of the European settlers?
a)
Throughout Virginia
b)
Coastal Plain/Tidewater
c)
Inland
d)
Valley and Ridge
4.
What happened to the American Indians after the European settlers arrived?
a)
They lived throughout Virginia
b)
Most were forced inland
c)
They lived only in the Piedmont
d)
They moved to England
5.
Which American Indian language group lived in the Piedmont?
a)
Monacan
b)
Cherokee
c)
Powhatan
6.
Which American Indian group lived in the Tidewater region?
a)
Powhatan
b)
Cherokee
c)
Monacan
7.

A tribe that lived in southwestern Virginia and southern Virginia and spoke the Iroquoian language was the _____________________________

a)

Powhatan

b)

Cherokee

c)

Monacan

d)

Mattaponi

8.

Christopher Columbus called the people he encountered "Indians" because -

a)

he thought he was in North America

b)

he thought he was in Africa

c)

he thought he was in the Indies

d)

he thought he was in Jamestown

9.

Who were the first group of people to live in Virginia?

a)

Scots-Irish

b)

American Indians

c)

African Americans

d)

English

10.

Virginia’s American Indians left evidence of their presence in all regions of Virginia. What kind of evidence did they leave?

a)

canoes and paddles

b)

nuts and berries

c)

teepees and villages

d)

arrowheads and pottery

11.

Which language was spoken by American Indians who lived near the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean?

a)

Cherokee

b)

Siouan

c)

Iroquoian

d)

Algonquian

12.

Which tribe in the Piedmont region

spoke the Siouan language?

a)

Nottoway tribe

b)

Cherokee tribe

c)

Monocan tribe

d)

Powhatan tribe

13.
a)

pets for the village

b)

ride on for long distances

c)

fur for warm clothing

d)

antlers to decorate with

14.

The foods eaten by the native peoples

changed with the seasons. In winter, they —

a)

hunted, fished, and picked berries

b)

grew crops such as corn, beans, squash

c)

harvested crops and hunted foods to preserve

d)

hunted birds and animals and lived off previously stored foods

15.

How did Virginia's American Indians

interact with their environment to meet

their food needs in the spring?

a)

harvested crops

b)

fished and picked berries

c)

grew crops

d)

lived on stored food

16.

These artifacts were most likely used by Virginia's American Indians-

a)

for writing and sewing

b)

as medical remedies

c)

as tools and weapons

d)

for decoration

17.

How do archaeologists help people

understand the past?

a)

They talk to the people who lived during

the time period being studied.

b)

They paint pictures of what they think

might have been in the area.

c)

They study many types of material

evidence left from people of the past.

d)

They research information in

encyclopedias and dictionaries.