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Native Americans 8-1
Native Americans
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Eastern Woodlands | Lived on the eastern coast. The first Native Americans to encounter European settlers |
| Flora | Plant life |
| Fauna | Animal life |
| Slash and Burn | Method of creating suitable farmland |
| Three Sisters | Crops of Native Americans - corn, beans and squash |
| Cherokee | Native Americans that lived primarily in the Blue Ridge region |
| Catawba | Native Americans that lived primarily in the Piedmont region |
| Yemassee | Native Americans that lived primarily in the Coastal region |
| Palisade | A wall of sharpened logs, around a village, used for protection |
| Wattle and Daub | Mixture of grass, clay and small branches to create walls of their houses |
| Wigwams | Circular homes made of saplings covered with bark and grasses |
| Blue Ridge | Mountainous land form region |
| Coastal Zone | Location of the Yemassee tribe. Pron to bad storms and many tourists. |
| Piedmont | Location of the Catawba tribe. Below the Blue Ridge land form region. |
| Outer Coastal Plain | Flat and swampy land form region of SC |
| Inner Coastal Plain | Land form region with the most fertile soil and rolling hills. |
| Sandhills | Location of the state capital and old coastal sand dunes. |