ACE Practice Tests

Question 1

The densest Native American populations in what would later become the US were found in…

Answer 1

California and the Pacific Northwest

Question 2

The Hohokam Indians were located where?

Answer 2

Arizona

Question 3

The Pueblo Indians lived where?

Answer 3

Arizona and New Mexico

Question 4

Hopewell indians were where?

Answer 4

The midwest

Question 5

Native Americans’ social and cultural development before 1500 was shaped by…

Answer 5

Geographical isolation, great climatic and geographical variations across America, and long-term changes or cycles in weather, such as warming trends and extended droughts

Question 6

What tribe was the ancestor of the modern Pueblo Indians?

Answer 6

The Anasazis

Question 7

Who were the Aleuts?

Answer 7

The Aleuts were an Indian tribe that spread across Alaska and Canada

Question 8

At the time of Columbus’s 1st voyage to the New World, about how many Native Americans lived on the continent north of present-day Mexico?

Answer 8

7 million to 10 million people

Question 9

Characteristics of Native American culture before contact with the Eastern Hemisphere include:

Answer 9

Strong kinship or extended family ties, the belief that all nature was infused with spiritual power, and strong oral traditions but no written languages

Question 10

Among North American Indians, women alone did the farming except for in tribes in the…(region)

Answer 10

Southwest

Question 11

The term Archaic peoples refers to _____

Answer 11

Native North Americans from about 8000 to 1500 B.C.

Question 12

What led to the collapse of the Mississippian cultures, especially Cahokia?

Answer 12

Scarcity of food and military challenges by other groups

Question 13

Manitou refers to…

Answer 13

The spiritual force that Native Americans believed permeated all nature