Question/ Answer History Study Guide US1.3
US 1.3 The student will demonstrate knowledge of how early cultures
developed in North America
US1.3a Describe how archaeologists have recovered material evidence of ancient
settlements including Cactus Hill.
1. How do archaeologists study human
behavior and culture?
2. What is one of the oldest archaeological
sites in the United States?
Through the recovery and analysis of artifacts.
Cactus Hill
3. On what river in is Cactus Hill located?
The Nottoway River
4. Where in Virginia is Cactus Hill located?
Southeast Virginia
US1.3b Locate where the American Indians lived, with emphasis on Eastern Woodland
(Iroquois), Plains (Lakota), Southwest (Pueblo), Northwest (Kwakiutl), and Arctic
(Inuit). I like playing kickball inside.
5. Where was the Inuit people’s homeland?
Alaska and Northern Canada
6. What is the arctic area like where the
Inuit Indians lived?
The temperature is below freezing much of the
year.
7. Where was the Kwakiutl homeland?
Pacific Northwest coast
8. What was the Pacific Northwest like?
It has a rainy, mild climate.
9. Where did the Lakota people live?
The Great Plains.
10. What are the Great Plains like?
They are characterized by dry grasslands
11. Where did the Pueblo tribes live?
In the southwest U.S.
In what is now Arizona and New Mexico
12. What was the area like where the Pueblo
tribes lived?
13. What area did the Iroquois Indians
inhabit?
14. What was the Eastern Woodland area
like?
15. Who were the first Americans?
16. What are natural resources?
It was desert and areas bordering mountains and
cliffs
Northeast North America
(called the Eastern Woodland)
It was heavily forested.
American Indians
Resources that come directly from nature.
17. How did American Indians use natural
resources?
They fished in rivers, hunted animals, and grew
crops.
18. What are human resources?
People working to produce goods and services.
19. What are examples of human resources
used by the American Indians?
People who fished, made clothing, and hunted.
20. What are capital resources?
Goods produced and used to make other goods
and services.
21. What are examples of capital resources
used by the American Indians?
Canoes, bows, and spears
22. How did the American Indians get their
food?
They fished, hunted and harvested crops.
23. What was American Indian clothing
made of?
24. What did American Indians use for their
housing?
Animal skins and plants
Their shelter was made of resources found in
their environment (e.g., sod, clay, mud, stones,
animal skins, and wood).