1. 200 300 400 500 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Vocabulary Native Americans Of the Coastal Plain Native Americans Of the Piedmont Native Americans Of the Mountain 100

2. What does it mean to work at just one job?

3. Specialize

4. What do we call the beliefs, traditions, and ways of life of a group of people?

5. Culture

6. What do we call a group of people who share land, speak the same language, and have the same customs?

7. Tribe

8. What do we call a system for making decisions for a group of people?

9. Government

10. A ______________ is a large group made up of several smaller groups that work together toward the same goal.

11. Confederation

12. What is another name for farming?

13. Agriculture

14. What do we call a government in which the people take part?

15. Democracy

16. ___________ are beads made from shells and used to keep records, send messages to other tribes, for gifts, and to trade with.

17. Wampums

18. What do we call rectangular houses made of wood frames with rounded roofs covered with bark or grass?

19. Longhouse

20. What do we call the group of advisors who make the final decisions?

21. Council

22. What language speaking group do most of the Coastal Plain Native Americans belong to?

23. Algonquians

24. Name three tools that the Native Americans on the Coastal Plain used to catch their fish.

25. Nets, Spears, and Weirs

26. Name the four ways that Native Americans in this region got their food.

27. Hunting, Fishing, Gathering, and Farming

28. The Native American group found in the Piedmont Region long ago was…

29. Siouan

30. Name three of the five Algonquian speaking tribes that settled on the Coastal Plain.

31. Hatteras, Roanokes, Croatoans, Secotans, and Pamlicos

32. What language speaking group did Native Americans in the Piedmont Region belong to?

33. Siouans

34. How many Siouan speaking groups were there in the Piedmont Region?

35. 15

36. What three crops did the Native Americans on the Piedmont Region grow together and why? Please give at least two reasons.

37. They crops that were grown together were beans, corn, and squash. They grew these together because they all helped one another. It reduced the amount of weeding needed, the corn stalks served as poles for the beans, and the beans helped fertilize the corn.

38. What was the largest group of Siouan speakers that lived in the Piedmont Region and how many members did they have?

39. The largest group of Native Americans in the Piedmont Region were the Catawbas. They had between 5,000-6,000 members.

40. Explain what type of government the Catawbas had and how this was similar to the structure in the United States now. Be specific!

41. The Catawaba’s government was structured as a democracy. They had a chief, similar to our president, as well as a Council, similar to our Congress. The chief did not have complete authority to make the decisions he wanted. All of the people had an opportunity to speak up and vote.

42. What language speaking group did most of the Native Americans in the Mountain Region belong to?

43. Iroquoians

44. What was the largest group of Native Americans in the Mountain Region?

45. Cherokees

46. In what two mountain regions did the Cherokees settle?

47. Appalachian Mountains and the Great Smoky Mountains

48. Give three jobs of both a Cherokee boy and a Cherokee girl.

49. Boys: Hunting, Gathering, Harvesting, Practicing hunting skills Girls: Cooking, Babysitting, Farming, Weaving

50. Explain how the Cherokee government was set up. Be specific!!

51. The Cherokee government was one large confederation broken down into seven clans. Each clan had a name such as wolf, deer, or bird. Each local Cherokee village had its own government. There was a round, seven-sided council house in the middle of each village and this is where they met to make decisions. The government was a democracy and the women were also able to take part in the decision-making process.