The Native Americans and early pioneers

Question 0

How did the Native Americans arrive in North America?

Answer 0

They migrated across the Bering Strait

Question 1

Where did the Native Americans originate from?

Answer 1

North Asia

Question 2

Where did the Indians first settle?

Answer 2

The river valleys of the East

Question 3

Why did the Indians move on to the Plains?

Answer 3

Because the European settlers began settling in America

Question 4

What did the European settlers bring that the Native Americans had not previously been subject to?

Answer 4

Diseases such as smallpox and cholera

Question 5

What were the Plains marked as on early maps?

Answer 5

‘The great American desert’

Question 6

Where do the Plains lie between?

Answer 6

The Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, they stretch from Canada in the north to the Mexican border in the south

Question 7

What word is used to describe the Plains that means ‘little water?’

Answer 7

Semi-arid

Question 8

What animals were the Plains inhabited by?

Answer 8

Locusts, grasshoppers, wolves, gophers, antelope, rabbits and birds

Question 9

Describe the weather conditions of the Plains

Answer 9

Harsh, freezing winters, cold winter gales but very hot in summer

Question 10

Describe some features of the Plains

Answer 10

Gently rolling grasslands and slow flowing rivers
Lack of trees(excluding Black Hills and area closest to the Mississippi)
Flat and featureless
Enormous size

Question 11

Name the most famous Indian tribes

Answer 11

Sioux, Cheyenne and the Apache

Question 12

What tribes dominated the northern Plains?

Answer 12

Blackfoot, Assiniboine and the Crow

Question 13

Which tribes were located in the central Plains?

Answer 13

Sioux and Cheyenne

Question 14

Which tribes were in the south?

Answer 14

Comanche, Kiowa and Arapaho

Question 15

What type of lifestyle did the Indians live?

Answer 15

Nomadic, they did not live in one permanent place

Question 16

Why were the Indians nomadic?

Answer 16

They had to follow the buffalo, they also believed that land was created by the Great Spirit to share, and by permanently living somewhere you are claiming it for yourself

Question 17

Who was a band led by?

Answer 17

The Chief

Question 18

Why was a Chief chosen as a leader?

Answer 18

Because of his wisdom and skills as a hunter or warrior. Many medicine men became Chiefs

Question 19

Did a Chief have any formal power over his people?

Answer 19

No, but he was greatly respected by them because of his bravery or wisdom

Question 20

What was smoked at the start of a council meeting and why?

Answer 20

A ceremonial pipe, to bring wisdom to the discussion

Question 21

What shape did the Chiefs sit in at a council meeting?

Answer 21

A circle

Question 22

What is the home of Native Americans called?

Answer 22

The tipi

Question 23

Who made the tipi?

Answer 23

The women

Question 24

Why was the tipi made in the shape it was?

Answer 24

To withstand strong winds on the Plains

Question 25

Who unpacked the tipi and packed it onto the travois?

Answer 25

The women

Question 26

What was the outside of the tipi often decorated with?

Answer 26

Geometric designs or animals

Question 27

What was the role of Native American women?

Answer 27

To prepare the buffalo, tipi and food. They also made clothes

Question 28

What was the role of Native American men?

Answer 28

To hunt the buffalo

Question 29

What religious group travelled west due to persecution in the east?

Answer 29

The Mormons

Question 30

What year was the Mormon religion founded, who by and in what location?

Answer 30

Joseph Smith in the 1820s, New York

Question 31

Why did Christians disagree with Mormon teachings?

Answer 31

They believed it was blasphemous

Question 32

Where did Joseph Smith first move his followers?

Answer 32

Kirtland, Ohio

Question 33

Why did many non-Mormons blame the Mormons despite the fact that they were not to blame?

Answer 33

The Mormon bank collapsed, as many other banks, and a lot of non-Mormons lost their savings

Question 34

After the Mormons were chased out of Ohio, where did they go first?

Answer 34

Missouri

Question 35

What was the name of the city that the Mormons moved to in Illinois?

Answer 35

Nauvoo

Question 36

What year did Smith adopt the practice of polygamy?

Answer 36

1844

Question 37

What happened to Smith in 1845?

Answer 37

He was shot dead by a mob at the jail he was being held at

Question 38

What was the name of the new leader of the Mormons?

Answer 38

Brigham Young

Question 39

Why did Young take the Mormons west?

Answer 39

To escape persecution

Question 40

Where did Young take the Mormons and why was this place significant?

Answer 40

The Great Salt Lake, it was the most isolated place on the Oregon Trail

Question 41

What did Young plan to do to get the Mormons to the Great Salt Lake?

Answer 41

Build a winter camp near the Missouri River, en route to the Great Salt Lake

Question 42

What year did the first group of Mormons arrive in the Great Salt Lake?

Answer 42

July 1847

Question 43

What did the Mormons build in The Great Salt Lake?

Answer 43

A successful new home, Salt Lake City, designed with a temple in the centre

Question 44

Why did mountain men hunt for pelts?

Answer 44

Fur hats and clothing became popular in Europe

Question 45

Where did the mountain men go each year?

Answer 45

The Annual Rendez-Vous

Question 46

What happened at the Rendez-Vous?

Answer 46

Mountain men met with other mountain men and with traders to sell fur and buy things such as rifles, they then spent their money on gambling and prostitutes

Question 47

What was life like for mountain men?

Answer 47

Lonely and difficult

Question 48

Although mountain men spent most of their time alone, who did many of them marry?

Answer 48

Native American women

Question 49

What did many mountain men do after fur went out of fashion?

Answer 49

Became tour guides on the Plains