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Virginia Native Americans

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 10mins

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.

Which of these seasons did the Native Americans harvest their crops?

a)

Fall

b)

Spring

c)

Summer

d)

Winter

4.
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
5.
a)

pets for the village

b)

ride on for long distances

c)

fur for warm clothing

d)

antlers to decorate with

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Why did Christopher Columbus call the Native Americans "Indians"?

a)

He thought he was in the Indies near China.

b)

He thought he was in the state of Indiana.

c)

He thought he was in the Indian Ocean.

d)

He thought he was in the country of India.

9.

Choose 3 examples of artifacts that the Virginia Indians have left behind.

a)

Mummies

b)

Arrowheads

c)

Pottery

d)

Tools

e)

Pyramids

10.

What are the three language groups to which Virginia's Indians belong?

a)

artifacts, archaeologists, and the Indies

b)

arrowheads, tools, and pottery

c)

Algonquian, Siouan, and Iroquoian

d)

PIedmont, Blue Ridge, and Tidewater

11.

Which person in history was responsible for naming Native American tribes "Indians" because he believe his ship landed in the Indies near China?

a)

Christopher Newport

b)

Captain John Smith

c)

Christopher Columbus

d)

Juan Ponce de Leon

12.
In which season did Virginia's Indians harvest crops?
a)
fall
b)
summer
c)
winter
d)
spring
13.

Virginia's Indians used ______ for clothing.

a)

cotton

b)

leaves

c)

deer skin

d)

denim