topics 2.1-2.4 vocab quiz

Question 1

domed house made from blocks of snow by American Indians who lived in the Arctic

Answer 1

igloo

Question 2

feasting and gift giving ceremony in northwestern American Indian culture

Answer 2

potlatch

Question 3

portable, cone shaped home made by American Indians who lived on the Plains

Answer 3

teepee

Question 4

a home made by Northeastern American Indians formed by bending the trunks of young trees and tying them together to make round frame covered with bark or reed mats

Answer 4

wigwam

Question 5

a rectangular type of home built by northeastern American Indians made from wood and bark or mats made of reeds

Answer 5

longhouse

Question 6

a person related to previous generations of ancestors

Answer 6

descendant

Question 7

something built of constructed

Answer 7

structure

Question 8

an object made by a human being such as a tool or weapon

Answer 8

artifact

Question 9

a long period of extremely dry weather

Answer 9

drought

Question 10

Iroquois clan leader

Answer 10

hoyaneh

Question 11

a group of people chosen to manage the affairs of a community

Answer 11

council

Question 12

an association formed to work together on shared goals such as military goals

Answer 12

alliance

Question 13

trade route believed to exist connecting Europe and Asia by sea through the Arctic Archipelago and around the northern coast of North America: European explorers first began searching for it in the 1490’s

Answer 13

Northwest passage

Question 14

political alliance of 5 Iroquois groups, known as the 5 nations, in the late 1500s

Answer 14

Iroquois league

Question 15

English Protestant who rejected the church of England

Answer 15

Pilgrim

Question 16

colonial trade routes among Europe and its colonies the west indies and africa which goods were exchanged for enslaved Americans

Answer 16

triangular trade

Question 17

a leg of the triangular trade route on which enslaved africans were transported from Africa to the Americas

Answer 17

middle passage

Question 18

revolt especially of soldiers or sailors against their officers

Answer 18

mutiny

Question 19

1775 law passed by Great Britain that allowed religious freedom and kept existing French laws in Canada

Answer 19

Quebec Act

Question 20

territory of the British Empire with internal self rule

Answer 20

dominion

Question 21

the most sever economic decline in U. S. history that began in 1929 and lasted through the 1930’s

Answer 21

Great Depression

Question 22

the efforts of African Americans town equal rights during the 1950’s and 1960’s

Answer 22

civil rights movement