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Worksheets8th grade social studies
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 45mins
Which Native American tribe is associated with the longhouse?
Iroquois
Navajo
Apache
Cherokee
What was a common trade route used by early North American Indians?
Ganges River
Amazon River
Mississippi River
Nile River
What are large thick moving sheets of ice:
Who were the first people to cross into NA
Native Americans/Hunter Gatherers
Where was the maya civilization
Where was the inca civilization
What does civilization mean
What caused the decline of the Mississippian civilization?
excessive drought
deadly disease
it is a mystery
invasion by another tribe
How did agriculture develop in North America?
It spread northward from the Mesoamerica civilizations
It spread from European explorers trading with the natives
It spread southward from the natives along the arctic
It spread from Asian explorers who sailed to North America
Which group build their temples and homes for the elite on top of platform mounds?
Adena
Hopwell
Mississippian
Anasazi
What is considered one of the biggest reasons that created tension among the Natives of Pennsylvania and the European Colonists?
Religious Conversion
Desire for Land
Cultural change
Fur Trade
Ice Millenium
Frozen Age
Beringian Time
What does this map represent
How early invaders conquered Russia
How Americans settled in Jamestown
How early humans traveled into the Americas
How early humans migrated to Asia
Which civilizations used the 365 day calendar based on the sun
Aztecs and Mayans
Incas and Aztecs
Mayans and Toltecs
Navajo and Incas
By the middle of the 1700s what different groups of Native Americans were living with the borders of Pennsylvania?
Shawnee
Lenni-Lenape
Cherokee
Pueblo
Who claimed to be the "King of the Delaware's"?
Shickellamy
Conrad Weiser
Teedyuscung
Benjamin West
In what country was William Penn born?
England
Germany
America
Wales
What new religion did William Penn join?
the Church of England
the Catholics
the Quakers
Methodist
The King of England paid his debt to the Penn family by giving William ________.
money
a new religion
land in America
a new house
What does Pennsylvania mean in Latin?
Penn's Forest
woodlands
Penn's Woods
wooded land
What is a treaty?
a document that gives you land
a wampum belt
when two people agree to share
a formal agreement between two groups
Penn planned and constructed what town that would be his capital?
Philadelphia
Chester
Germantown
Boston
What was most important about the location for the city of Philadelphia?
It could had wide streets
It had river access to the Atlantic Ocean
It had a lot of land to build homes
It had flat land
The Treaty of Shackamaxon began a friendship between
the Quakers and fellow colonists
the Native Americans and the Quakers
the British and the Native Americans
the Quakers and the British
The name Philadelphia reflects Penn's beliefs because it
means "City of Brotherly Love."
reflects traditional English names.
shows that Penn loved his father.
is a Quaker name for peace.
Which of these events did Not result in the Walking Purchase?
Penn's sons thought of a way to get extra land.
The land was measured by one man walking.
James Logan forged a deed.
Land was measured by three men running
What effect to the Walking Purchase have on the Lenape?
They were satisfied that the deal was fair.
They were angry becuse they had been cheated out of more land.
They were glad to move farther into the wilderness.
They were pleased that their treaty had been honored.
Why was the _________ trail important to young George Washington?
Kuskusky
Great Shamokin
Venango
Great Minquas
The Susquehannocks conducted trade with Indians to the east along
Warriors Path
Great Minquas Path
Great Shamokin Path
Venango Path
The Delaware Indians were also known as the
Lenni Lenape
Iroquois
Cherokee
Mohawk
William Penn's son had fallen into debt. In order to increase their income, they began selling land to (a) before it had been purchased from the Indians.
Lord's Valley is named after
Religious group or being close to god
Lord Levi
Simeon Lord
A very large area of land created by the lord god
The Lenape were segregated into pockets or parcels of land surrounded by non-tribal setters was the result of what?
(a)
Which Indian path is important to Northeast Pennsylvania?
Minisink Wyoming
Great Shamokin
Great Minquas
Kuskusky
What does the name Kuskusky or Kuskuskies mean?
Four Delaware Indian villages
A name of a pastry
Name of a city
Indian language
What early group of European Colonists gave the Great Minquas Path its name?
(a)
What natural resources were important to the Lenape?
forests, animals, & rivers
rivers, coal, & crops
forests, rivers, & gas
The beaver was an important natural resource because people most wanted its....
fur
teeth
leather
William Penn believed that the Native Americans should be paid for their land. This shows how Penn.....
set up a government
built Pennsbury Manor
tried to treat people equally
What happened after the Walking Purchase of 1737 between the Native Americans and Colonists?
they solved their problems fairly
the Colonists cheated the Natives and they were never friends again
Indians were at a disadvantage from the Europeans because
They had no armor
They had no advanced weapons
They had no immunity to diseases
ALL OF THE ABOVE
What killed so many America Indians when the Europeans arrived.
Dogs
Gods
Disease
Floods
What were wigwams used for in the Algonquin group?
tombs
homes
temples
business centers
