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The First Americans
review cards for The First Amercan Unit
| Question | Answer | Section |
|---|---|---|
| What kind of food did American Indians eat? | They ate corns, beans, and squash but mainly corn that grew in flat-top mesas up in the mountains. | 1.9 |
| How did they use cotton? | The American Indians grew cotton so they can wove them into clothes. | 1.9 |
| Why was it helpful to have tree-less grasslands with dense grasses in the Great Plains? | It was helpful because many buffalo can graze there and the American Indians used buffalo for a lot of things. | 1.10 |
| What were buffalo used for? | Buffaloes offered dry meat for food, skin to tie around cone poles for their home, warm robes as clothes, and strips of buffalo tendons to go with hardwood bows. | 1.10 |
| Did the forests affect the ways American Indians adapted? | Yes, in a way because the elm bark and logs were used to make their homes, canoes, and sometimes they burned trees for farming. | 1.11 |
| What kind of clothing and food did the American Indians of the Eastern Woodlands have? | They used deer skin to make skirts, capes, and moccasins. Women made deer syrup out of berries and nuts but they also ate fish. | 1.11 |
| What are mounds? | They were burial sites that looked like temples | 1.12 |
| What types of homes did they have? | Their homes were trees woven into rectangular frames that had leaves as roofs with clay. | 1.12 |
| What were some types of food they ate? | Corn, squirrels, pumpkins, deer, sunflowers etc. | 1.12 |
| What two main rivers were in the Southwest cultural region? | The Colorado and Rio Grande. | 1.9 |
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