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IN History review
1st semester material: pre-history - 1800
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A state is all the people that live in an area defined by "frontiers," which can be natural like ______________ or man-made boundaries/lines. | rivers |
| The capital city of Indiana is ______________. | Indianapolis |
| The state flower of Indiana is the ______________. | peony |
| The state tree of Indiana is the ______________. | tulip tree |
| What do we call people from Indiana? | Hoosiers |
| Name one of the two rivers that helps form the "frontiers" (boundaries) of Indiana. | Ohio or Wabash |
| What did we have in Indiana long ago that helped to form the land as we know it now, with the north being flat and good for agriculture and the south being filled with caves, accessible limestone, and other "karst" features? (HINT: it was COLD!!) | glaciers |
| How was it possible for Indiana to have massive glaciers (slow-moving rivers of ice) in it long ago? | Indiana was much colder/there was an ice age |
| T or F: glaciers never reached Bedford, and that is why we have caves, underground rivers, and other limestone features here that are not found elsewhere in the state. | true |
| ______________ is the study of human events where a WRITTEN RECORD EXISTS. | history |
| ______________ is human events and lives BEFORE written records existed. | pre-history |
| Archaeologists learn things about people from the past by studying ______________, things they made or used that are left behind. | artifacts |
| Archaeologists collect artifacts and other evidence about ancient peoples, and then they ______________ that evidence to make their best guesses about what people's lives were like. | interpret |
| Indiana's Clovis culture was a ______________ culture; they had no written language. | prehistoric |
| The Clovis people were hunter gatherers who hunted ______________. | mammoths |
| The Adena culture was the first group in Indiana to practice agriculture, and they were famous for building______________ out of earth. | mounds |
| The fall of a complex human society is called ______________. | societal collapse |
| Name at least 2 things that can happen when a society collapses. | war, violence (because no more government to enforce law and order), famine, loss of written language, plague/disease. |
| What was North America's first big city called? | Cahokia, built by the Mississippian culture |
| Who were the first people to grow corn in Indiana? | the Mississippian people |
| Were the people from Cahokia war-like? | No. They spread their culture with their religion, not with war. |
| What was the name of the religious sport that Cahokians liked to play? | chunkey |
| What character from Cahokian mythology famously played a game of chunkey against a group of red-headed giants? | Red Horn |
| Who was the French explorer that first went down the entire length of the Mississippi River AND established the first fort in Indiana (Ft. Miami)? | Cavalier (full name: Rene-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle) |
| The Miami capital city of ____________ was located at an extremely important portage: a stretch of only nine miles where people could carry their canoes accross land and ultimately get to the Mississippi River. | Kekionga |
| The French only wanted furs from the Native Americans, while the British wanted both furs and ____________ for their overflowing population to settle. | land |
| True or false: The British frequently married Native American women. | false; the British brought their women with them to settle, while the French typically sent only men and these FRENCH men often intermarried with Indians. |
| Which culture tended to have a "live and let live" approach to the Indians; French or British? | French. While still attempting to convert them to Christianity, the French otherwise respected their culture and did not attempt to change much about it. |
| The first European person to reach Indiana was from what country? | France |
| When they first met, what was the one product that Europeans were interested in trading for with the Native Americans? | beaver pelts |
| True or False: the most valuable beaver pelts to the Europeans were the old ones Native Americans had been wearing as robes for at least a year. | True. "The savages could not understand why these men came so far to search for their worn out beaver robes" -Claude-Charles Le Roy, Monsieur doe Bacqueville de la Potherie (1681) |
| A ___________ was a person of mixed heritage (half Native American and half French) that traveled by canoe to trade beaver pelts. | voyageur |
| The Native Americans living in Indiana around the time of contact with Europeans belonged to the ___________ language group. | Algonquian |
| What was the name of the biggest tribe of Indians living in Indiana when Europeans got there? | Miami |
| True or False: The Miami Indians had both male and female chiefs, each with important responsibilities. | true |
| What did Miami Indians use to make their clothing before Europeans arrived? | deerskin |
| The Miami Indians were know for growing a special type of ___________ that was milky white and easier to process. | corn |
| Name at least 2 animals the Miami liked to hunt for food. | buffalo, deer, beaver, squirrel, bear, rabbits |
| What time of year did the Miami men go out to hunt? | winter |
| The ___________ was/is a major path running through southern Indiana, originally created by millions of migrating bison. | Buffalo Trace |
| True or False: The Miami started getting European diseases like smallpox and measles ONLY AFTER they met French missionaries and other European people. | False; about 135 years before the first French people came to Indiana, the Miami were suffering from major epidemics of European diseases. |
| The ___________ were a result of the Iroquois (who lived closer to the East Coast and therefore met Europeans sooner) attempting to conquer their neighbors so they would have more territory for hunting beaver pelts to trade with the English. | Beaver Wars |
| The first European person to reach Indiana was from what country? | France |
| When they first met, what was the one product that Europeans were interested in trading for with the Native Americans? | beaver pelts |
| True or False: the most valuable beaver pelts to the Europeans were the old ones Native Americans had been wearing as robes for at least a year. | True. "The savages could not understand why these men came so far to search for their worn out beaver robes" -Claude-Charles Le Roy, Monsieur doe Bacqueville de la Potherie (1681) |
| A ___________ was a person of mixed heritage (half Native American and half French) that traveled by canoe to trade beaver pelts. | voyageur |
| The Seven Years War between the French and the British for control of fur trading territory in North America was also known as the _____________________ War. | French & Indian |
| Who won the 7 Years War, the French or the British? | British |
| When the British took over French colonial territory, they did several things that upset the Native Americans. Name one of them. | treated them as conquered peoples, did not respect treaty agreements with them (because they thought it would be easy to defeat them in battle), stopped giving gifts to chiefs, restricted the sale of gunpowder |
| The Native American prophet who had a vision of ascending a mountain to meet the "Master of Life" and preached a return to traditional Native practices and a rejection of European trade goods was named _______________. | Neolin |
| Who was the leader of a confederacy of Great Lakes tribes who rebelled against British colonial rule by capturing British forts like Michillimackinac, Miami, and Presque Isle? | Pontiac |
| Pontiac and his warriors entered Fort Detroit with a plan to capture the guns and artillery there. The warriors waited for the signal from Chief Pontiac; he was going to flip over a _______________. | wampum belt |
| After Pontiac's War, the British issued a proclamation saying white settlers could not cross the _______________ Mountains; that land was reserved for Indians. | Appalachian; sadly there were many who crossed this boundary anyway. |
| The very first settlers to reach an area of the frontier were called _______________. They would quickly clear the land for profit, build the most ruidmentary shelter, then move on to the next plot of land they hoped to clear and sell. | frontiersmen |
| True or False: American settlers on the frontier were very careful to use sustainable farming practices as they worked the land because land was very expensive. | false; land was cheaper than labor and settlers mostly viewed it as an expendable resource. Most planned to move on to a new plot of land within their lifetimes. |
| Frontier farmers had to be as _______________ as possible, which meant they made nearly everything on the farm: furniture, wagons, candles, clothing, etc. | self-sufficient |
| True or False: most frontier farmers built 2-story framed, European-style houses for their families. | false; they typically built a one-room cabin, sometimes with only a door and one window, a fireplace, and hemlock boughs for a bed. |
| Kekionga, the Miami town, was known as a _______________ community; which meant that various cultures mixed and mingled here. | middle ground |
| Name 2 vegetables that frontier settlers in Indiana liked to eat. | squash, mustard greens, corn, potatoes, pumpkins, green beans. |
| What was a food that frontier settlers in Indiana mostly had to live without? | spices (like pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, etc.); also sugar and white flour. |
| What were the special dishes that colonial settlers let their children eat out of. | porringers |
| True or False: during the colonial period, Miami Indians typical wore a mixture of European and more traditional native clothing. | true |
| True or false: Inhabitatants of the 13 colonies mostly stayed in their original territories pre-Revolutionary War and did not cross the boundary into Indian Territory (the Appalachians) to settle west. | false |
| After the Revolutionary War began, the British began to distrbute weapons and ammunition to the Miami and other frontier tribes. Why? | To get them to attack American settlers. |
| George Rogers Clark captured three British frontier forts with a militia of only ____________ men and without firing a shot in the summer of 1778. | 175. (He did this with the help of papers proving France's alliance with the American revolutionaries, which convinced many tribes to side with him.) |
| When the Revolutionary War ended, Britian gave the frontier territory containing Indiana to the US. But without the efforts of George Rogers Clark to capture British forts there during the war, these states could easily be part of what country today? | Canada |
| True or false: After the Revolutionary War, the new American government took a French-style, "live and let live" approach to the Native Americans. | false |
| In the late 1780s, Native Americans in the Great Lakes region formed an alliance known as the ____________ to attempt to establish a soverign Indian state on the frontier. | Northwestern Confederacy (in its day, it was known as the Miami Confederacy) |
| In 1790, the US military was ordered by President George Washington to destroy the Native city of ____________, in order to establish American sovereignty on the frontier. | Kekionga |
| ____________ was the great war chief and strategist of the Northwestern Confederacy. | Little Turtle |
| What precious artifacts did the Miami people lose in the fire after the American army burned Kekionga? | wampum belts |
| At the Battle of ____________, the Northwestern Confederacy was defeated by the US army. The Indians ran towards their allies, the British, who had not taken part but remained barricaded inside Ft. Miami, but were not admitted into the fort. | Fallen Timbers |
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