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