Native Americans - Grace
  • 1. Nomads are people who
A) keep moving from place to place
B) live in round huts
C) settle in one place
D) grow crops
  • 2. Most Native Americans in what is now North Carolina who spoke Algonquian languages lived in
A) the Coastal Plain region
B) caves
C) the Piedmont region
D) the mountains
  • 3. Native Americans used wampum mainly for
A) hunting deer
B) ceremonies
C) food
D) trading
  • 4. A council is a
A) kind of village
B) form of government
C) large family living together
D) hunting party
  • 5. What was the main activity at the Green Corn Ceremony
A) Girls helped their mothers plant corn seeds.
B) Cherokee women made medicine from plants
C) Families gave thanks for a good harvest
D) Boys practiced skills they would need as grownups
  • 6. What was a very important agricultural product for North Carolina's early people?
A) tobacco
B) wheat
C) strawberries
D) corn
  • 7. The mounds built by the people we call Mound Builders were made of
A) wood
B) animal bones
C) leaves
D) soil
  • 8. Based on the languages they spoke, the earliest settlers of North Carolina can be divided into three groups: the Iroquian, the Algonquian and the
A) Incan people
B) Siouan people
C) Aztec people
D) Cherokee people
  • 9. Where did most early coastal peoples build their villages?
A) at the beach
B) along rivers or streams
C) next to swamps
D) at the base of mountains
  • 10. Which was the largest group of people in North Carolina's Mountain region long ago?
A) Cherokees
B) Creeks
C) Catawbas
D) Roanokes
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