Test 4 Flashcards
This is the name of the founder of Rhode Island and the first Baptist church in America
Roger Williams
This man brought the gospel to the Native Americans until he died at the age of 29 from tuberculosis.
David Brainerd
This man invented a written language for the Cherokeees
Sequoya
This man translated portions of the Scriptures into the Mohawk language
Joseph Brant
This man’s translation of the Scriptures into the language of the Native Americans was the first Bible printed in America
John Eliot
This is the world’s largest bay
Hudson
This man’s search for the Northeast Passage gave France a claim to Canada.
Jacques Cartier
This man was the first explorer int he modern times to reach the North American mainland.
John Cabot
The Native Americans of the Dakota tribe were called
Sioux
Most of the Plains’ Native Americans lived in this type of housing
Tepees
This is the largest land animal in the Western Hemisphere
Bison
This is the name of a ground squirrel that lived in vast underground “towns” stretching over the prairie.
Prairie dog
This was the most important animal to the Native Americans of the plains
Bison
The plants that are least likely to grow on a prairie are
Trees
Prairies experience _______________ weather conditions than other areas
More extreme
This is the term for a plain or hilly region within the temperate one that is covered by grasses
Prairie
This is a very early and very advanced civilization was famous for its burial mounds
Hope we’ll
The Native Americans from this tribe defeated Custer at Little Bighorn
Sioux
This tribe was named for the color of their moccasins
Blackfoot
This tribe was the predominant tribe in the Florida Everglades
Seminole
This tribe kept a pictorial chronicle of their history
Delaware
These NAtive Americans were the most famous tribe to settle in Mexico
Aztec
The five tribes of this group formed the League of Five Nations
Iroquois
This tribe celebrated the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims
Wampanoag
These Native Americans had an advanced civilization in Central America
Maya
These famous Native Americans are from South America.
Inca
Canada is the largest world producer of this product
nickel
England gained control of most of North America as a result of the
Seven Years War
Early explorers of Canada were searching for a water route to Asia that they called the
Northwest Passage
Canada’s form of government is
A constitutional monarchy
Canada has two official languages:
English
And
French
Canada’s capital city is
Ottawa
The longest river in the United States is
The Missouri River
This is the world’s largest gulf
Gulf of Mexico
Mount Rushmore is located in
The Black Hills
This is an important Atlantic current that begins in the Gulf of Mexico
Gulf Stream
This is the largest river in the United States
The Missouri River
This is a region in the Dakotas which has many irregular cliffs and spectacularly colored hills
Badlands
This is the world’s largest freshwater lake
Lake Superior
The most important animal to the Native Americans of the plains was the bison. Give 5 ways that they used the bison
- They at the bison’s meat and drank its milk
- They made shoes, robes and clothing from its hide.
- They made homes/tepees out of their hides.
- They used the manure for heating and cooking
- They used bones to make tools, needles, and knives.
