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The First Americans
Review for the First Americans
| Question | Answer | Chapter / Section # |
|---|---|---|
| How did the American Indians in the Southwest use the natural resources in their surroundings? | The American Indians in the Southwest used the natural resources in their surroundings by eating cultivated plants and making homes out of adobe. | Section 1.9 Southwest |
| What tool did the American Indians in the Southwest use? | The American Indians in the Southwest used corn grinders. | Section 1.9 |
| What was the main food source in the Great Plains and how did the American Indians get that food source? | The main food source in the Great Plains were buffalo. They used bowstrings and rope made from buffalo tendons. | Section 1.10 Great Plains |
| What were the main geographic feature of the Great Plains? How did the American Indians take advantage of it? | The main geographic feature of the great plains are tree-less grasslands. The American Indians took advantage to this because that was the environment that buffalo lived in. | Section 1.10 |
| What were the main food sources, homes, and clothing that the American Indians in the Eastern Woodlands had? | The main food source in the Eastern Woodlands were animals and cultivated plants. They built homes out of logs that were 20 feet wide and 100 feet long. The American Indians in the Eastern Woodlands wore animal hide and fur as clothing. | Section 1.11: Eastern Woodlands |
| What were the main geographic features of the Eastern Woodlands? What kind of tools did the American Indians use? | The main geographic features of the Eastern Woodlands were forests, rivers, and lakes. The American Indians in the Eastern Woodlands made stone tools. | Section 1.11 |
| How were the American Indians' houses built? | The American Indians in the Southeast made houses out of strips of young trees woven into rectangular frames which were plastered with clay and the roofs were made of leaves. | Section 1.12: Southeast |
| What were the main food sources and tools of the Southeast? | The American Indians ate cultivated plants, such as corn, beans, squash, pumpkins, and sunflowers. The tools they used were hoes, bows and arrows. | Section 1.12 |