Test Bank For Out of Many A History of The American People Brief Edition Combined Volume 8th Edition John Mack Faragher Mari Jo Buhle Susan H Armitage

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Test Bank Item Title: TB_Q.1.1.3
Topic: The First American Settlers
Learning Objective: Basic History: Analyze the effects of historical, social, political, economic,
cultural, and global forces on this period of United States history.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
4) The Desert culture __________.

A) was one of the first settled North American peoples
B) migrated seasonally in search of game
C) disappeared after being unable to adapt to changes in the environment
D) relied on agriculture
Answer: B
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
5) Archaeological evidence suggests that plant cultivation in the __________ began about 5,000
years ago.
A) Great Basin
B) Great Plains
C) highlands of Mexico
D) desert of Arizona
Answer: C
Topic: The Development of Farming
6) Staple crop farming __________.

A) developed in China and spread to the rest of the world
B) developed independently in several areas of the world
C) had little impact on social life
D) remained isolated at its point of origin
Answer: B
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7) A consequence of Native Americans’ increasing reliance on agriculture was __________.

A) a decrease in the need for military forces
B) a new division of labor and, ultimately, the emergence of classes
C) increased reliance on weather patterns
D) higher levels of disease
Answer: B
Skill Level: Analyze It
8) The development of Teotihuacan illustrates which of the following?

A) the growing complexity of Mesoamerican cultures
B) Native Americans’ inability to adapt to environmental change
C) the impact of mass population migrations on the Great Basin
D) native cultures becoming less sophisticated over time
Answer: A
9) Adoption of farming might be considered an extension of __________.

A) more egalitarian societies
B) Archaic forest efficiency
C) environmental adaptation
D) falling populations
Answer: B
10) During the first millennium BCE, what culture developed in the arid Southwest?
A) Hohokam
B) Skoaquik
C) Arawaks
D) Pima
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Answer: A
Topic: Farming in Early North America
11) A major achievement of the Hohokams involved __________.

A) the building of communities of cliff dwellings
B) the development of the first system of irrigation in America
C) the importation of grains like maize into North America
D) the development of crops that needed no water
Answer: B
12) Woodland people developed complex earthworks __________.

A) after they adopted agriculture
B) before they adopted agriculture
C) after coming into contact with the Aztecs
D) after the arrival of Europeans
Answer: B
13) Which of these best explains the sometimes violent competition for resources between
Mississippian settlements?
A) religious conflicts
B) political instability
C) population growth
D) ethnic divisions
Answer: C
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14) Eastern Woodland tribes subsisted by __________.

A) gathering, hunting, and limited agriculture
B) raids on neighboring villages
C) fishing and farming
D) dry farming and small game hunting
Answer: A
Topic: Cultural Regions of North America on the Eve of Colonization
15) Which product is not correctly paired with its region of origin?
A) flint: Mexico
B) obsidian: Rocky Mountains
C) copper: Great Lakes
D) mica: Appalachians
Answer: A
Difficulty Level: Difficult
16) From studying surviving pre-Columbian works of art, historians __________.

A) have a clear picture of Indian religious beliefs
B) see no evidence of emotions
C) can only speculate about their meaning
D) can translate written Mississippian documents
Answer: C
17) With what culture did the Hohokam share many traits?
A) Mesoamerican
B) Hopewell
C) Athapascan
D) Clovis
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Answer: A
18) Why might native communities have resisted shifting to agriculture?

A) They were ignorant about plants and cultivation.
B) Farming offered few advantages in some areas.
C) Merchant clans prevented their workers from adopting farming.
D) Farming took so little work that it promoted laziness.
Answer: B
19) The largest Indian population centers could be found among __________.
A) the Archaic peoples of the interior
B) the fishing communities of the Pacific Northwest
C) the hunters and gatherers of the Great Plains
D) the farming districts of the South, the Southwest, and the Northeast
Answer: D
20) Desert farmers like the Pima and Yuma __________.

A) exported high-quality flint hoes
B) were highly communal apartment dwellers
C) were the first to plow using animals
D) lived in dispersed settlements called rancherias
Answer: D
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21) The oldest continuously occupied towns in the United States are home to the __________.
A) Cherokees
B) Pueblos
C) Apaches
D) Navajos
Answer: B
22) On the eve of European colonization, remaining Mississippian cultures in the South included
the __________.
A) Pimas
B) Apaches
C) Mimacs
D) Natchez
Answer: D
23) The members of the Iroquois Confederacy were forbidden to __________.

A) go to war with each other
B) trade with Europeans
C) leave their ancestral homelands
D) farm
Answer: A
24) The Iroquois were unusual among Native American cultures because their society was
__________.
A) matrilineal
B) patriarchal
C) pacifist
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D) not dependent on agriculture
Answer: A
25) After the collapse of Cahokia, the main area where the Mississippian culture persisted was
the __________.
A) forests of the Northeast
B) forests of the Pacific Northwest
C) deserts of the Southwest
D) forests of the Southeast
Answer: D
26) According to the migration hypothesis, ancestors of Native Americans came from
__________.
A) Africa
B) Israel
C) Northern Europe
D) Asia
Answer: D
27) The Monte Verde culture in Chile is evidence of the importance of __________.
A) migration along the “Pacific Coast Highway”
B) the spread of Mississippian culture
C) Aztec cultural influence
D) farming in pre-Columbian America
Answer: A
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28) Folsom technology was a refinement of what culture?

A) Plano
B) Hopewell
C) Clovis
D) Teotihuacan
Answer: C
29) Cultivation of maize began in __________.

A) Asia
B) Africa
C) Mesoamerica
D) Europe
Answer: C
30) The primary function of a chief in a farming community was to __________.

A) conduct warfare against other tribes
B) divide property among the clans
C) appease the gods
D) supervise the economy
Answer: D
31) The Desert culture was characterized by reliance on __________.

A) bison hunting
B) small game and plant foraging
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C) intensive maize cultivation
D) fish and sea mammals
Answer: B
32) Which phrase best describes a kiva?

A) burial mound of Hopewell mortuary cult
B) Hohokam ball-playing court with surrounding religious platform mound
C) Pueblo impersonations of ancestral, sacred spirits
D) Anasazi subterranean religious center
Answer: D
33) Teotihuacan had a population of about __________ at its height.

A) 30,000
B) 100,000
C) 1 million
D) 200,000
Answer: D
34) Pueblo Bonito is to the Anasazi as Cahokia is to the __________.

A) Hohokam
B) Hopis
C) Algonquians
D) Mississippians
Answer: D
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35) Someone sent to negotiate with the Five Nations would be meeting with __________.
A) Mohawks, Oneidas, Onodagas, Cayugas, and Senecas
B) Mimacs, Crees, Montagnais, Ojibwas, and Hurons
C) Hurons, Mohawks, Creeks, Natchez, and Aleuts
D) Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, Cherokees, Natchez
Answer: A
36) Which of these societies had tens of thousands of communities in the Southwest?
A) Inuit
B) Mohawks
C) Senecas
D) Anasazi
Answer: C
37) The population of the precolonial Americas __________.

A) is impossible to estimate with any confidence
B) varied greatly by region
C) was uniformly distributed across the continents
D) was greatest in the Arctic and Great Basin
Answer: B
38) In what area of North America were the largest populations of nonagricultural Indians
concentrated?
A) California and the Pacific Northwest
B) Great Basin
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C) New England
D) Mesoamerica and the Caribbean
Answer: A
39) Which of these was an important early social consequence of farming?

A) development of more elaborate kinship systems
B) elimination of gender-based divisions of labor
C) leveling of social inequalities
D) decentralization of authority
Answer: A
40) The bow and arrow was first developed __________.

A) in Mexico
B) on the Great Plains
C) in the Northeast
D) in the desert basins of the Southwest
Answer: B
41) Which of these is true of the inhabitants of the Americas prior to colonization?
A) The inhabitants of the Americas all produced similar cultures.
B) No single physical type characterized all the peoples of the Americas.
C) The inhabitants of the Americas failed to develop farming.
D) All Native Americans belonged to a single race.
Answer: B
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42) Which of these helps explain why migration to North America was attractive to Siberian
hunter-gatherers?
A) North America was home to many large mammals.
B) It was much warmer in North America than in Asia.
C) Siberian hunter-gatherers were often attacked by more aggressive Asian peoples.
D) The population of Asia had grown too large to be supported by available resources.
Answer: A
43) What distinguished the third and final migration from Asia to the Americas from the
previous two?
A) It occurred as the result of endemic warfare.
B) It resulted in the settlement of the northeastern portion of North America.
C) It involved hundreds of thousands of people.
D) It occurred long after Beringia had disappeared under rising seas.
Answer: D
44) How did the development of farming affect family life?

A) People built smaller dwellings.
B) People married at an older age.
C) People became more mobile.
D) People had larger families.
Answer: D
45) Where was Mayan civilization centered?

A) northeastern region of North America
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B) Andes Mountains
C) Yucatan Peninsula
D) Mississippi Valley
Answer: C
46) Which statement was true of most North American Indian farming communities?
A) There was little division of labor on the basis of gender.
B) Women and men belonged to separate social groupings.
C) Women participated in both hunting and farming.
D) Men took sole responsibility for farming.
Answer: B
47) Which major challenge did the Anasazi face in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries?
A) The climate became drier.
B) Iroquois bands raided Anasazi communities.
C) A new and deadly plague struck.
D) Religious conflicts divided the society.
Answer: A
48) The Adena were __________.

A) mound builders
B) a desert people
C) a largely urban culture
D) strictly hunter-gatherers
Answer: A
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49) Which of these was the single overwhelming fact of life in the Southwest?
A) the abundance of resources
B) cultural diversity
C) land scarcity
D) aridity
Answer: D
50) Which of these helped make the South ideal for farming?
A) its mild climate
B) its low population density
C) the absence of large mammals
D) its short summers
Answer: A
Essay Questions
51) What is forest efficiency and how did it affect community populations?
Key Points: natural resources; knowledge and its accumulation; efficiency and sustainability
52) Why did some native societies resist adopting agriculture?

Key Points: benefits of agriculture; drawbacks of settled farming; labor; lifestyle
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53) What do the monumental earthworks at Cahokia suggest about the community?
Key Points: social hierarchy; organization of labor; community priorities; resource surpluses
54) Using either the Anasazi/Mississippian or the Iroquois/Algonquian, compare and describe
their attitudes about community in such areas as sex roles, lines of descent, wealth and property,
political structures, religion, and war.
Key Points: population; conflict; priorities; political structures; settlement patterns
55) What led to the gradual abandonment of the Four Corners area by the Anasazi?
Key Points: climate; famine; migrants; violence and conflict
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4) The Desert culture __________.

6) Staple crop farming __________.

7) A consequence of Native Americans’ increasing reliance on agriculture was __________.

8) The development of Teotihuacan illustrates which of the following?

9) Adoption of farming might be considered an extension of __________.

11) A major achievement of the Hohokams involved __________.

12) Woodland people developed complex earthworks __________.

14) Eastern Woodland tribes subsisted by __________.

16) From studying surviving pre-Columbian works of art, historians __________.

18) Why might native communities have resisted shifting to agriculture?

20) Desert farmers like the Pima and Yuma __________.

23) The members of the Iroquois Confederacy were forbidden to __________.

28) Folsom technology was a refinement of what culture?

29) Cultivation of maize began in __________.

30) The primary function of a chief in a farming community was to __________.

31) The Desert culture was characterized by reliance on __________.

32) Which phrase best describes a kiva?

33) Teotihuacan had a population of about __________ at its height.

34) Pueblo Bonito is to the Anasazi as Cahokia is to the __________.

37) The population of the precolonial Americas __________.

39) Which of these was an important early social consequence of farming?

40) The bow and arrow was first developed __________.

44) How did the development of farming affect family life?

45) Where was Mayan civilization centered?

48) The Adena were __________.

52) Why did some native societies resist adopting agriculture?

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