Unit 2 test
Using Theory 2 explain how human beings first arrived on the American continents
According to this second theory, the first people arrived in the Americas at least 15,000 years ago and may have spread throughout the Americas by traveling by boat along the Pacific Coast
Which Native American Tribe used agriculture to provide some if not most of their food?
Adena and Hopewell
Which Native American Tribes lived in cone-shaped homes made of sticks, bark, and willows?
Adena and Hopewell
Which Native American cultures settled and lived in the Ohio River Valley?
Adena and Hopewell
Which Native American Tribe lived in the area of what is now the states of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah
Ancestral Pueblo
Around 1300, the Ancestral Pueblo moved south into what is now southern Arizona. Identify the reason for their move.
Due to drought
Which Native American Culture had an abundance of trees and water and ran from the Great Lakes area to the Atlantic Ocean
Eastern Woodlands
Identify and describe the resources the Native Americans of the Great Plains used to build their homes. Identify the name given to their homes
In areas where some trees could be found, people made homes called lodges from sticks and a mixture of grass and dirt. However, since the plains had very few trees, many people also used animal hides to make homes called tepees.
Eastern Woodlands
Iroquois and Creeks
Pacific Northwest
Kwakiutl
Great Plains
Lakota
Identify the location of the actual Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings at various sites in the Southwest
Mesa Verde National Park, in Southwest Colorado; and at Canyon de Chelly National Monument, in Northeast Arizona
Identify the location for the Indian burial mounds built by the Hopewell people
Mound City, Chillicothe, Ohio
Which Native American Culture built their homes from wood, such as cedar, and decorated them with beautiful wood carvings?
Northwest Native Americans
What name was given to those that migrated from Asia to North and South America between 15,000 to 12,000 years ago
Paleo Indians
Who were nomadic hunter-gatherers?
Paleo-Indians
Identify the innovations that allowed the Ancestral Pueblo civilization to become more advanced
Pottery, adobe bricks, irrigation, and cliff dwellings
Southwest
Pueblo and Navajo
Using Theory 1 explain how human beings first arrived on the American continents.
Scientists believed that these first people simply walked to the Americas—from Asia! Huge portions of the northern oceans froze into glaciers. This freezing caused the water level in the Bering Strait to drop, creating a land bridge called Beringia that connected Asia and North America
Explain how the Iroquois formed and came to exist
The tribes of the Eastern Woodlands learned to live among each other and share their resources
The Ancestral Pueblo used stones to build dams and reservoirs to direct and hold the water.How did they benefit from this advancement?
These advancements allowed the people to farm their food
What did the Hopewell and Anasazi have in common
They both began growing food to add to what they hunted.
Read the text below. Many historians believe the first inhabitants of North America crossed a land bridge from Asia 13,000 years ago. Others believe the first Americans arrived on boats 15,000 years ago. If the land-bridge theory is correct, which statement best describes the earliest Americans
They moved from place to place in search of animals to hunt and plants to gather.
Pacific Northwest
Tlingit
Identify the resources used by the Eastern Woodlands to build their homes. Identify the name given to their homes.
Used trees and animal products in many ways. They used the branches and bark of trees to build longhouses
