2. Jeopardy A?B?C?D?E? $100 $200 $300 $400 $500

3. ANSWER How the earliest people probably traveled to reach North America

4. QUESTION What is: By foot across the Bering Strait land bridge or by boat along the coast of the land bridge

5. ANSWER True or False: The Iroquois League was formed because people wanted to bake goods with each other.

6. QUESTION What is: False, the Iroquois League was formed because they wanted to live peacefully with each other.

7. ANSWER TRUE OR FALSE: The EARLY, EARLY, EARLY Americans living during the Ice Age grew corn and traded with Europeans

8. QUESTION What is: NO, NO, NO! This is false! They hunted and gathered. They found shelter in caves, tents built of wood and animal skins. They lived near streams or lakes, BUT they did not TRADE---YET!

9. ANSWER Archaeologists learn about early life in New York by studying these

10. QUESTION What are: artifacts—like spear points

11. ANSWER TRUE OR FALSE: EARLY people of New York used natural resources to write down their words to communicate

12. QUESTION What is: NO, NO, NO WAY! They used natural resources to hunt forest animals, they used wood for building shelter, they fished in streams and lakes; BUT THEY DID NOT WRITE ANY WORDS---YET!

13. ANSWER When the EARLY Americans began to farm their lives changed in this way.

14. QUESTION What is: Their lives changed as they stayed in one place longer and built villages.

15. ANSWER TRUE OR FALSE: The Iroquois and Algonquian spoke the same language.

16. QUESTION What is: NADA, NUNCA, NOPE! They DID NOT speak the same language! They were both Native Americans, they both built shelter in the forest, they both hunted and cleared areas. BUT THEY DID NOT SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE!

17. ANSWER TRUE OR FALSE: Algonquian people traveled in horse-drawn carriages.

18. QUESTION What is: NOT POSSIBLE! They would not have been caught dead in a horse-drawn carriage! They traveled on foot along trails or in birch-bark canoes on rivers!

19. ANSWER This is why Algonquians moved their villages into the forest when winter arrived.

20. QUESTION What is: because it was the best time of the year for hunting, and they wanted to be closer to the animals.

21. ANSWER Algonquian children did this during the Harvest Moon

22. QUESTION What is: They helped pick ripe vegetables!

23. ANSWER TRUE OR FALSE: Today’s Algonquian people have left the New York area and are no longer interested in continuing old traditions.

24. QUESTION What is MOST CERTAINLY FALSE! The Shinnecock group have opened a museum and hold a powwow each year! They are still here in NEW YORK!

25. ANSWER This is why the Iroquois League was formed

26. QUESTION What is: because Iroquois groups needed to find a way to live together peacefully.

27. ANSWER TRUE OR FALSE: After the Iroquois League was formed, the Iroquois groups fought even more than ever before.

28. QUESTION What is: NOPE! The Iroquois League helped the groups solve their problems PEACEFULLY!

29. ANSWER This is why the Iroquois called themselves the “People of the Longhouse”

30. QUESTION What is: because Iroquois families lived in wooden buildings called longhouses.

31. ANSWER This is why the Iroquois Trail was so important.

32. QUESTION What is: because it helped people in villages stay in touch with each other

33. ANSWER TRUE OR FALSE: The purpose of most Iroquois festivals was to tell stories, dance and play games, and give thanks and celebrate.

34. QUESTION What is: YUP! THAT’S RIGHT! Wouldn’t you have loved to have been there?

35. ANSWER Early people who got their food by hunting animals and gathering plants

36. QUESTION What are: hunter-gatherers

37. ANSWER An object made by people in the past

38. QUESTION What are: artifacts

39. ANSWER A scientist who learns about the past by studying artifacts

40. QUESTION What is: an archaeologist

41. ANSWER Died out forever!

42. QUESTION What is: extinct

43. ANSWER A small, dome-shaped home

44. QUESTION What is: a wigwam

45. ANSWER To buy and sell goods

46. QUESTION What is: to Trade

47. ANSWER Land set aside by the government for Native Americans

48. QUESTION What are: Reservations

49. ANSWER An Algonquian meeting or celebration

50. QUESTION What is: a Powwow

51. ANSWER Iroquois family that shared an ancestor

52. QUESTION What is: a Clan