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How the earliest people probably traveled to reach North America

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What is: By foot across the Bering Strait land bridge or by boat along the coast of the land bridge

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True or False: The Iroquois League was formed because people wanted to bake goods with each other.

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• What is: False, the Iroquois League was formed because they wanted to live peacefully with each other.

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• TRUE OR FALSE: The EARLY, EARLY, EARLY Americans living during the Ice Age grew corn and traded with Europeans

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• What is: NO, NO, NO! This is false! They hunted and gathered. They found shelter in caves, tents built of wood and animal skins. They lived near streams or lakes, BUT they did not TRADE---YET!

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• Archaeologists learn about early life in New York by studying these

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• What are: artifacts—like spear points

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• TRUE OR FALSE: EARLY people of New York used natural resources to write down their words to communicate

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• What is: NO, NO, NO WAY! They used natural resources to hunt forest animals, they used wood for building shelter, they fished in streams and lakes; BUT THEY DID NOT WRITE ANY WORDS---YET!

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• When the EARLY Americans began to farm their lives changed in this way.

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• What is: Their lives changed as they stayed in one place longer and built villages.

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• TRUE OR FALSE: The Iroquois and Algonquian spoke the same language.

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• What is: NADA, NUNCA, NOPE! They DID NOT speak the same language! They were both Native Americans, they both built shelter in the forest, they both hunted and cleared areas. BUT THEY DID NOT SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE!

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• TRUE OR FALSE: Algonquian people traveled in horse-drawn carriages.

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• What is: NOT POSSIBLE! They would not have been caught dead in a horse-drawn carriage! They traveled on foot along trails or in birch-bark canoes on rivers!

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• This is why Algonquians moved their villages into the forest when winter arrived.

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• What is: because it was the best time of the year for hunting, and they wanted to be closer to the animals.

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• Algonquian children did this during the Harvest Moon

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• What is: They helped pick ripe vegetables!

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• TRUE OR FALSE: Today’s Algonquian people have left the New York area and are no longer interested in continuing old traditions.

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• What is MOST CERTAINLY FALSE! The Shinnecock group have opened a museum and hold a powwow each year! They are still here in NEW YORK!

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• This is why the Iroquois League was formed

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• What is: because Iroquois groups needed to find a way to live together peacefully.

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• TRUE OR FALSE: After the Iroquois League was formed, the Iroquois groups fought even more than ever before.

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• What is: NOPE! The Iroquois League helped the groups solve their problems PEACEFULLY!

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• This is why the Iroquois called themselves the “People of the Longhouse”

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• What is: because Iroquois families lived in wooden buildings called longhouses.

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• This is why the Iroquois Trail was so important.

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• What is: because it helped people in villages stay in touch with each other

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TRUE OR FALSE: The purpose of most Iroquois festivals was to tell stories, dance and play games, and give thanks and celebrate.

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• What is: YUP! THAT’S RIGHT! Wouldn’t you have loved to have been there?

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Early people who got their food by hunting animals and gathering plants

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• What are: hunter-gatherers

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• An object made by people in the past

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What are: artifacts

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• A scientist who learns about the past by studying artifacts

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What is: an archaeologist

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• Died out forever!

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What is: extinct

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A small, dome-shaped home

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• What is: a wigwam

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To buy and sell goods

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• What is: to Trade

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Land set aside by the government for Native Americans

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• What are: Reservations

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• An Algonquian meeting or celebration

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• What is: a Powwow

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• Iroquois family that shared an ancestor

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• What is: a Clan