Early Indigenous Tribes of North America

Question 1

Both the American Indians of the woodlands and those of the Southwestern desert

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hunted and farmed.

Question 2

Why did American Indians who lived in dry areas make knives from flint rather than slate?

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Slate was more common in wet microclimates.

Question 3

What artifacts are the Hohokam people best known for?

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canals for carrying water to their desert farms

Question 4

Which of these American Indian groups still celebrates its heritage at powwows?

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the Lakota

Question 5

Which option lists only pre-Columbian American Indian groups that lived in what is now Ohio?

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the Adena, the Hopewell, and the Mississippian

Question 6

Which of the following American Indian cultures was made up of several groups who spoke a common language?

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the Iroquois

Question 7

Pre-Columbian American Indian groups lived in the Americas

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before the arrival of European settlers.

Question 8

Which of the following was a pre-Columbian Mound Builder culture?

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the Adena

Question 9

Which of these cultures would be most likely to develop in a wet, wooded microclimate?

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a complex culture with a varied diet

Question 10

The geography of which region led to the pre-Columbian construction of dams, canals, and pueblos?

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the Southwest

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