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Native Americans

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which group of Americans were the first to live here?

a)

Settlers

b)

Immigrants

c)

Native Americans

d)

Pilgrims

2.

This group of Native Americans lived in Teepees, and they were hunters, horsemen, and warriors.

a)

Sioux/Lakota

b)

Powhatan

c)

Cherokee

d)

Pueblo

3.

Pueblo Indians lived houses called pueblos that were made of __________.

a)

Buffalo Skin

b)

Deer Skin

c)

Trees

d)

Mud

4.

How did the Powhatan travel?

a)

Horseback

b)

Bicycles

c)

Walking & Canoes

d)

Cars & Buses

5.

Who was the most famous member of the Powhatan tribe?

a)

Mulan

b)

Pocahontas

c)

Sacagawea

d)

Cinderella

6.

What type of homes did the Powhatan live in?

a)

Teepees

b)

Wigwams/Longhouses

c)

Pueblos

d)

Houses

7.

Which Native American tribe was never forced to leave their homelands, and in fact, still live there today?

a)

Sioux/Lakota

b)

Pueblo

c)

Powhatan

d)

Seminole

8.

What did the Powhatan use to make their wigwams and longhouses?

a)

Buffalo skin and bones

b)

Deer skin and bones

c)

Trees

d)

Fish skin and bones

9.

Which Native American tribes would have lived on the plains in what is now Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota

a)

Hopi

b)

Pueblo

c)

Choctaw

d)

Lakota/Sioux

10.

What did Powhatan mean in Virginia Algonquin?

a)

Rainbow

b)

Running stream

c)

Standing buffalo

d)

Waterfall

11.

What does the word Pueblo mean?

a)

City

b)

Village

c)

Country

d)

Ocean

12.

Which tribe of Native Americans lived in a climate of hot, humid summers and mild winters

a)

Pueblo

b)

Sioux/Lakota

c)

Powhatan

d)

Cheyenne

13.

What is something that all of the Native American tribes had in common?

a)

They all lived in the same type of house.

b)

They all ate deer.

c)

They all hunted and used all of the animals they hunted.

d)

They all lived in warm climates.

14.

Which of these were not a contribution of Native Americans to our culture?

a)

Pottery

b)

Basketball

c)

Weaving

d)

Farming

15.

What is another name for Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830?

a)

Path of Love

b)

Journey of Adventure

c)

Trail of Tears

d)

Stomp Dance

16.

Check all of these things might have been on the Pilgrims' Thanksgiving dinner table:

a)

Oysters

b)

Deer

c)

Turkey

d)

Mashed Potatoes

e)

Wild Cranberries

17.

Why were the Native Americans originally called Indians?

a)

Because they came from India.

b)

Because they liked the name.

c)

Because Columbus originally thought that he landed in India.

d)

Because that is how they introduced themselves.

18.

Which President made Thanksgiving an official national holiday?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

George Washington

c)

Barack Obama

d)

George W. Bush