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,The Unfinished Nation, 9e (Brinkley)
Chapter 1 The Collision of Cultures

1) The Clovis people began their existence in North America
A) with migrations across an ancient land bridge over the Bering Strait.
B) with the explorations of Christopher Columbus.
C) as a result of the development of the wheel.
D) long after the last ice age ended.
E) from the southern tip of South America.

Answer: A
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

2) Scholars estimate that human migration into the Americas over the Bering Strait occurred
approximately
A) 2,000 years ago.
B) 5,000 years ago.
C) 9,000 years ago.
D) 11,000 years ago.
E) 18,000 years ago.

Answer: D
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

3) The first truly complex society in Mesoamerica was that of the
A) Maya.
B) Aztecs.
C) Inca.
D) Pueblo peoples.
E) Olmecs.

Answer: E
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation




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,4) The pre-Columbian North American peoples in the Pacific Northwest
A) did not have permanent settlements.
B) developed political systems as sophisticated as those of the Maya and Aztecs.
C) fished salmon as their principal occupation.
D) were the most peaceful of pre-Columbian societies.
E) were known as the Inuit.

Answer: C
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

5) The pre-Columbian North American peoples in the Southwest
A) were primarily hunters of small game.
B) were largely agricultural.
C) lived in small, nomadic tribes.
D) created an economy exclusively based on trade.
E) primarily pursued moose and caribou for sustenance.

Answer: B
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

6) Pre-Columbian peoples of the northern forests of North America
A) were nomadic big-game hunters.
B) lived in small sedentary tribes.
C) relied primarily on fishing for survival.
D) used horses.
E) developed a harsh religion that required human sacrifice.

Answer: A
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation




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, 7) Prior to European contact, the eastern third of what is today the United States
A) was politically controlled by the Cahokia Indians.
B) contained no permanent settlements.
C) had the most abundant food resources of any region of the continent.
D) was populated by tribes that engaged in hunting and gathering but did not yet farm.
E) remained for the most part uninhabited.

Answer: C
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

8) Cahokia was a large trading center located near what present-day city?
A) St. Louis
B) Memphis
C) New Orleans
D) Baton Rouge
E) Detroit

Answer: A
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

9) Many pre-Columbian tribes east of the Mississippi River were loosely linked by
A) the shared use of a series of forts.
B) common linguistic roots.
C) economic compacts.
D) intertribal religious festivals.
E) the Iroquois Confederacy.

Answer: B
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation




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