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The First Americans
Review Cards for the First American's
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1.9 What features did the Southwest have and what food sources could be found there? | Had many environments including canyons, mountains, deserts, and flat-topped mesas. Food included corn, beans, and squash. |
| 1.9 What were the people's houses in the Southwest like? What were they made up of? | Used bricks of adobe and built thick walled houses. Their houses were 4 stories high and their pueblos could hold up to 1,000 people. |
| 1.9 Which materials did the people in the Southwest use? What was their clothing made of? | Wore clothes made of cotton that was woven and spun. Also dyed clothes with bright colors from plants/minerals. They used corn grinders as tools. |
| 1.10 How did the Great PLains' land look like including animals/food? | Treeless grasslands, spread from Rockies to Mississippi Valley and from Canada to Gulf of Mexico. Eastern part had more water than Western part, so had softer soil. Buffalo were a very important food source. |
| 1.10 What did houses look like in the Great Plains? | They used buffalo tendons as thread. Buffalo skins were sewed together and fastened to a tipi. |
| 1.10 What materials/tools were used by the people who lived in the Great PLains? | Made Buffalo hides into robes and bedding. Their clothes and bags were also made out of hides. Their tools included: hardwood bows, bone knives, shields, waterproof containers,bone scrapers, horns, hooves, and buffalo dump served as fuel for fires. |
| 1.11 What did the land look like in the Eastern Woodlands? What food was grown/hunted? | Eastern Woodlands stretched from Mississippi river 2 Atlantic ocean and from Canada 2 North Carolina. In winter, it snowed and in summer, it rained, so it was a forest. Deers, bears, birds, fish ,green nuts, berries, sunflowers,and syrup was used as food. |
| 1.11 What materials and tools did the people in the Eastern Woodlands use? | Skirts, capes, and moccasins from deer skins were used for clothing and nets and spears were used tools. |
| 1.11 How were houses made in the The Eastern Woodlands and out of what materials? | Sturdy log frame houses covered with elm bark. Houses were about 20 ft. wide and could be over 100 ft. long. Several families could live in these houses. |
| 1.12 What was the climate like in the Southeast and what did the land look like/contain? (including food sources) | the climate was warm and humid in the summer and they had mild winters. This area had fertile coastal plains, river valleys, mountains, and swamps. |
| 1.12 What materials were used to build houses in the Southeast and why were mounds built? | The houses were built around mounds due to spiritual reasons. Strips of trees were woven into a rectangle plastered with clay. The houses's roots were made out of leaves at the point. |
| 1.12 Which tools/materials proved to be useful to the people in the Southeast? | Wooden wove deerskins skirts were made because the Southeast did not have enough time to make clothing. PLenty of jewelry was made.Baskets, wooden handguns, and bone arrows were used. |