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Grade 4 Pre-Colonial Period
The settlement was built in the middle of a huge American Indian Empire. An empire is what?
  1. a large holding of crops for Indians to use in cooking
  2. the house that the chief indian lived in
  3. a large holding of land and power
  4. a larger area filled with gold and riches
Grade 4 Pre-Colonial Period
Where do the Eastern Woodland Indians get their name?
  1. They liked climbing trees
  2. They lived in Virginia's many forests.
  3. They chopped down trees for lumber
  4. They lived in the Piedmont region
Grade 4 Pre-Colonial Period
Which tribe lived in the Southeast and had cypress trees as a resource?
  1. Pawnee Tribe
  2. Hopi Tribe
  3. Kwakiutl Tribe
  4. Seminole Tribe
Grade 4 Pre-Colonial Period
Which tribe was in The Great Plains-Central United States?
  1. Pawnee Tribe
  2. Hopi Tribe
  3. Seminole Tribe
  4. Nez Perce Tribes
Grade 4 Pre-Colonial Period
What people lived in pithouses?
  1. Paleo Indians
  2. Fremont Indians
  3. Anasazi Indians
  4. Desert Gatherers
Grade 4 Pre-Colonial Period
This tribe lived in large rectangular houses made of cedar planks with bark roofs.
  1. Hopi Tribe
  2. Pawnee Tribe
  3. Inuit Tribe
  4. Kwakiutl Tribe
Grade 4 Pre-Colonial Period
These Indians are original people of Nebraska and Kansas.
  1. Kwakiutl Tribe
  2. Nez Perce Tribe
  3. Pawnee Tribe
  4. Hopi Tribe
Grade 4 Pre-Colonial Period
American Indian shelters were built from what materials?
  1. Bricks
  2. Teepees
  3. Wood (Trees)
  4. Tarps
Grade 4 Pre-Colonial Period
Five nations joined together to form the Haudenosaunee.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 4 Pre-Colonial Period
In this tribe, buffalo were plentiful.
  1. Pawnee Tribe
  2. Hopi Tribe
  3. Seminole Tribe
  4. Inuit Tribe
Grade 4 Pre-Colonial Period
Which tribe was known as wealthy skilled wood crafters?
  1. Inuit Tribe
  2. Pawnee Tribe
  3. Kwakiutl Tribe
  4. Hopi Tribe
Grade 4 Pre-Colonial Period
The Nez Perce tribe lived on a high, flat area of the Northwest with steep sides, tall prairie grass, lots of trees and many rivers. This area is called the...
  1. Plains
  2. Columbia Plateau
  3. Pacific Northwest
  4. Arctic
Grade 4 Pre-Colonial Period
Who makes the decisions for the Iroquois League?
  1. Great Council
  2. Congress
  3. Tribe
Grade 4 Pre-Colonial Period
This tribe were skilled weavers, farmers, and religious ceremonial people.
  1. Hopi Tribe
  2. Kwakiutl Tribe
  3. Seminole Tribe
  4. Pawnee Tribe
Grade 4 Pre-Colonial Period
What are reserves or reservations?
  1. Land that the government owns
  2. Land that the state owns
  3. Land that belongs to tribes and is legally under their control
  4. Land that belongs to tribes and is legally under the control of the government
Grade 4 Pre-Colonial Period
What was the first crop raised by Native Americans in Mexico?
  1. beans
  2. corn
  3. squash
Grade 4 Pre-Colonial Period
How did the Spanish explorers impact the lives of the Native Americans?
Grade 4 Pre-Colonial Period
Longhouses were the permanent houses of the ....
  1. Inuit and Nez Perce
  2. Kwakuitl and Nez Perce
  3. Only the Kwakuitl
Grade 4 Pre-Colonial Period
Who named North America?
  1. Pocahontas
  2. John Smith
  3. John Rolfe
  4. Sir Walter Raleigh
Grade 4 Pre-Colonial Period
Most Eastern Woodland peoples used            farming,                      hunting,            and             gathering,              to get food.
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