Early Americans Test (Part I)
U.S. History I
Name: ___________________________
Answer questions 1-85 on the scantron provided.
1. The study of evidence left by early peoples is called
a. Geography b. Sociology
c. Anthropology
d. Geology
2. The Mound Builders built large mounds of earth to
a. Store food
b. Irrigate their farmlands
c. Defend their land d. Bury their dead
3. Which of the following combinations of crops was known as the “Three Sisters”?
a. Pumpkins, Squash, Beans b. Corn, Wheat, Beans c. Corn, Beans, Squash
4. Among the peoples of the Great Plains, an important source of food was
a. Fish
b. Seals
c. Buffalo
d. Squirrels
5. The most powerful people of the Eastern Woodlands area who lived in longhouses are the
a. Huron
b. Shawnee
c. Iroquois
d. Chippewa
6. Many Native American groups based their religions on worship of
a. Deceased rulers
b. Nature
c. The sun
d. Precious animals
7. Which one is NOT something done inside of a kiva?
a. Make laws b. Hold religious ceremonies c. Have a good time/recreation d. Sleep
8. Most people on the Plains had two types of shelters, _____ in the winter and _____ for summer.
a. Earth lodges; Wigwams b. Wigwams; Tipis
c. Earth lodges; Tipis
d. Longhouse; Tipis
9. Spearheads were made of
a. Stone
b. Copper
c. Wood d. Flint
e. A and D are correct.
10. Which of the following is NOT an example of something the natives used or invented?
a. Bow and Arrow
b. Medicines
c. Cocoa Beans
d. Wheel
True/False (A=True, B=False)
11. T/F Five tribes of the Northeast banded together to form the Iroquois League so that they could help each other
farm, hunt, and share their belongings.
12. T/F The word Eskimo means “eater of raw meat” and these people kept fires by burning whale oil.
13. T/F Plains Indians use bows and arrows to hunt as well as stampede the animals into traps.
14. T/F Cahokia disappeared as a great city, but the reasons are not yet known.
15. T/F Women are the farmers planting corn, beans, squash, and pumpkins in the Eastern Forests.
16. T/F In Europe, families designed crests that symbolized their family’s power, while natives used totem poles to
symbolize this.
17. T/F Cliff dwellers were farmers that grew crops on top of the flat-topped mountain (a mesa).
18. T/F The word Mississippi means “big water” or “Father of the waters”.
19. T/F The main theory on why the cliff dwellers built on the side of the mountain is so that they could avoid the cold,
nasty weather.
20. T/F The term Inuit means “real people”, which is how people who inhabit tundra regions describe themselves,
whereas the term Eskimo is a name given to those people by others.
21. T/F The women in many tribes in California made flour and bread from ground up acorns.
22. T/F Hiawatha was tired of the fighting ways of the Iroquois, got ideas of peace and from another man and then
approached the evil man (who had killed Hiawatha’s sisters) to change his ways.
23. T/F During the ice age the ocean levels dropped, exposing more land area.
24. T/F The Latin words for “thinking man” are Homo sapiens.
25. T/F Because natives used stone for their tools, the era is known as the “Stone Age”.
26. T/F The natives were gatherers that settled in various places along the land bridge route.
Matching: Match the vocabulary word to its definition.
a. Kiva
b. Potlatch
c. Pueblos
d. Cahokia
e. slash and burn
27. Clay plastered villages.
28. Round rooms dug into the ground; a common shelter for cliff dwelling Native Americans, used for lawmaking,
religious ceremonies, and more.
29. Clearing the trees from a piece of land, burning the branches and leaves to fertilize the ground.
30. Parties that could go on for days and days, a celebration of gift giving and a competition for prestige.
31. An ancient Indian city covering six square miles with a population of 25,000 that includes flat topped pyramid
mounds as tall as 10 story buildings.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
a. Girdling
b. Sachem
c. Atlatl
d. Longhouse e. Wampum
32. A dart thrower invented and used by many Native Americans as a hunting tool.
33. Killing a tree by cutting all of the bark along the trunk, this dries out the tree and makes it easier to be split into
firewood once it falls.
34. A Native American home that fits up to sixty people, made of branches strung together and covered with bark.
35. Another word for a Native American chief who keeps record of the tribe’s history.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
a. Wampum
b. Shaman
c. Eohippus
d. Wigwam
e. Igluviga
36. A small dome-shaped hut used by Native Americans with a hole in the middle for smoke from a fire to escape; made
of branches lashed together covered in bark or skins.
37. An ancestor of the horse found in North America in ancient times, had toes and was small.
38. A memory aid consisting of thousands of shell beads woven into a pattern; very valuable and sometimes used as
money.
39. A Native American spiritual leader or priest.
40. A shelter used by the Inuit people of the far north.
________________________________________________________________________________________________
a. Region
c. Location
e. Human-Environment
b. Movement
d. Place
Interaction
41.
42.
43.
44.
45.
Studying how countries trade products with other countries and how they communicate with each other.
Being able to find a place using it’s latitude and longitude coordinates.
Studying how the damming of rivers affects the lands downstream from the dam.
Studying the type of lands and waterways in Wrightstown and how the people use these lands and waters.
Studying the areas in northern Wisconsin which is called the Canadian shield where the trees and soil differ from
other areas in Wisconsin.
46. Remembering how to get to a spot using landmarks such as restaurants, shops, schools and nearby homes.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
a. Relative Location
c. Physical Characteristic
b. Absolute Location
d. Cultural Characteristic
47. Features created by human beings (schools, dairy farms, people, etc.)
48. Exact position of a place on the earth (600 High Street, Wrightstown, WI 54182)
49. Features that occur naturally (Fox River; rich yet rocky soil suitable for farmland)
50. Location in relation to other places (Wrightstown is halfway between Appleton and Green Bay)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
51. The Prime Meridian
a. Marks 0° latitude
c. Marks one 180° longitude
b. Is the same as the International Date Line
d. Marks 0° longitude
52. The Equator
a. Marks 0° latitude
c. Marks 0° longitude
b. Is the center of the earth
d. Splits the hemispheres west and east
53. Death Valley, California is very hot year-round and is in a temperate zone; Mt. Everest is in the tropics yet is very
cold year-round. What accounts for this difference?
a. The elevation
c. The lines of longitude
b. Sunlight in that area
d. The lines of latitude
54. Lines of latitude are measured in ______; another name for lines of latitude are ______.
a. Minutes; meridians
c. Degrees; parallels
b. Minutes; parallels
d. Degrees; meridians
55. Lines of longitude are measured in ______; another name for lines of longitude are ______.
a. Minutes; meridians
c. Degrees; parallels
b. Minutes; parallels
d. Degrees; meridians
56. What is the climate region of Wisconsin known as?
a. Temperate grassland
b. Humid Continental
c. Subarctic
57. What is most of the land in the U.S. used for?
a. Ranching
c. Farming
b. Manufacturing
d. Mining
58. What is the largest physical region that takes up the middle of the U.S.?
a. Intermountain
c. Coastal Plains
b. Great Plains
d. Canadian Shield
59. T/F A large portion of the federal lands out west, some of which are reserved for native tribal reservations, is known
to receive a good deal of rainfall.
60. Old Faithful is an example of a _________________ that is found in Yellowstone National Park.
a. Volcano
c. Lake
e. Desert
b. River
d. Geyser
61. The Niagara Falls between the U.S. and Canada is the oldest state park in the U.S. and contains ___ major falls.
a. Three
b. Seven
c. Twelve
d. Eighteen
62. There are more glaciers in ________ than anywhere else in the world; all the world’s glaciers contain ___% of the
world’s freshwater.
a. Antarctica; 30%
b. Alaska; 75%
c. Canada; 93%
63. What is another name for the Everglades (primarily found in Florida)?
a. Southern swamp
c. Interior Okeechobee
b. River of Grass
64. Who was the earliest explorer to the Western Hemisphere and where did he go?
a. Leif Erikson; Canada
c. Christopher Columbus; Bahamas
b. Erik the Red; Greenland
65. A large amount of land was added to the center of our country in 1803 with the ___________________.
a. Land Ordinance
c. Louisiana Purchase
b. Treaty of 1803
d. Cession of 1803
66. To settle the border lines between the U.S. and Canada, a great deal of _________________________.
a. Battles were fought
c. Treaties were signed
b. Money had to be paid to Canada
67. The single migration theory says that people came from ___________ by traveling across ________________.
a. Southern Asia; Pacific Ocean
c. Australia; Asian Land Bridge
b. Northern Asia; Bering Land Bridge
68. Which European country gets the most rainfall annully?
a. Norway
c. Germany
b. Sweden
d. Iceland
69. This theory argues that the first Americans travelled by boat across the Pacific from Australia.
a. Coastal migration theory
c. Trans-Pacific migration theory
b. Single migration theory
70. This supercontinent contained all of today’s continents together.
a. Gondwana
b. Rodinia
c. Pangea
71. T/F The Mercator map projection makes the southern hemisphere look much bigger than it should.
72. T/F A reason we tend to fear countries in the Middle East, like Iran and Pakistan (who also happen to have very high
Muslim populations) is because they possess biological and/or nuclear capabilities that serve as a threat and reason
we might feel a need to be present in the Middle East.
73. The traditional Mercator projection is useful for ____________, but it stretches areas like ________ to be much
larger than actual size.
a. Navigation, Africa
c. Navigation, Greenland
b. Showing locations, Europe
d. Charting weather, Europe
74. Which sect of the Muslim religion do the majority of Middle Easterners belong to?
a. Judaism
c. Shiite
b. Christianity
d. Sunni
75. The Fuller Projection uses what shape to map the earth?
a. Squares
c. Circles
b. Triangles
d. Parallelograms
76. This migration theory argues that the first Americans may have traveled from Southern Asia or Japan in boats across
the Bering Sea and down the coasts of North and South America.
a. Coastal migration theory
c. Beringia migration theory
b. European migration theory
d. Trans-Pacific theory
77. This migration theory argues that the first Americans may have traveled across the Pacific Ocean when the sea levels
were lower.
a. Coastal migration theory
c. Beringia migration theory
b. European migration theory
d. Trans-Pacific theory
78. T/F Sea levels rose rapidly due the melting of glaciers, often allowing for human occupation or a possible migration
route.
79. Some scientists have suggested that the first Americans migrated in boats across the Atlantic Ocean from:
a. Africa
c. Europe
e. Southern Asia
b. Australia
d. Japan
80. The New York Police use a mapping system, referred to as COMSTAT where certain icons represent specific details
related to crime in the area. The size of the icon represents the _______________.
a. Type of crime
c. Time of the police
b. Amount of crime
officer’s shift
81. T/F The COMSTAT system has been responsible for the decline of crime and many other police departments are
turning to the model set by New York.
82. Which of the following continents was NOT pictured in the T-O Maps?
a. Asia
c. Europe
b. Africa
d. Australia
83. T/F In Ptolemy’s book “Geographia”, the cartography system was improved as he mapped to scale, with grids, and
showed perspective.
84. After many of the scientifically designed maps of Ptolemy and others were burned at the library at Alexandria,
__________ made most of the maps for centuries.
a. Nuns
c. Priests
b. Slaves
d. Kings
85. The timeline of Rand McNally’s mapmaking history showed that the company made _________ maps.
a. Bike
c. Battle
b. Road
d. All of the above are true
Written Portion (Part II): Answer the following questions on the green part of the scantron.
Geography/Migration Short Answer (5 points): in a few sentences, describe at least two of the five themes of
geography and how they apply to the concept of migration. Be sure that one example comes from readings 2-13 and
one from our migration presentation for full credit.
Migration Theories Essay: use your outline to answer the following question:
For decades the “single-migration theory” was accepted as the only way people first inhabited North and South America;
they migrated across the Beringia Land Bridge. Recently, archeologists began finding new evidence of peoples in North
and South America who were here before land bridge migration would have been possible. These findings have led
scientists to question the single migration theory and suggest other possible routes of migration. Use the other two
theories, Coastal migration and Trans-Pacific migration, supported by a minimum of four sites, to explain why we should
question the “single migration theory” as the only way people migrated to America. Thoroughly describe each site,
including evidence found that would support your explanation. Include an introduction and conclusion.