Native Americans - Grace
  • 1. Nomads are people who
A) settle in one place
B) grow crops
C) live in round huts
D) keep moving from place to place
  • 2. Most Native Americans in what is now North Carolina who spoke Algonquian languages lived in
A) the Piedmont region
B) the mountains
C) the Coastal Plain region
D) caves
  • 3. Native Americans used wampum mainly for
A) trading
B) hunting deer
C) food
D) ceremonies
  • 4. A council is a
A) large family living together
B) form of government
C) kind of village
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) strawberries
C) corn
D) wheat
  • 7. The mounds built by the people we call Mound Builders were made of
A) leaves
B) wood
C) soil
D) animal bones
  • 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) Aztec people
B) Cherokee people
C) Incan people
D) Siouan people
  • 9. Where did most early coastal peoples build their villages?
A) at the base of mountains
B) at the beach
C) next to swamps
D) along rivers or streams
  • 10. Which was the largest group of people in North Carolina's Mountain region long ago?
A) Creeks
B) Roanokes
C) Cherokees
D) Catawbas
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