USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

NATIVE AMERICANS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Eastern Woodland peoples were grouped as Iroquois or Algonquian by
A
How they dressed
B
The language they spoke
C
how they governed their tribe
D
They type of economy they had
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Indigenous people of the Eastern Woodlands spoke languages belonging to several language groups, including Algonquian, Iroquoian, Muskogean, and Siouan, as well as apparently isolated languages such as Calusa, Chitimacha, Natchez, Timucua, Tunica and Yuchi. Many of these languages are still spoken today.

Detailed explanation-2: -Eastern Woodlands Indigenous peoples belong to two unrelated language families, Iroquoian and Algonquian.

Detailed explanation-3: -A majority of Eastern Woodlands tribes spoke Iroquoian or Algonquian. The Iroquois speakers included the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, and Huron. The Iroquoian tribes were primarily deer hunters but they also grew corn, squash, and beans, they gathered nuts and berries, and they fished.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Eastern Woodlands tribes each operated in a hierarchical society that was split up into 4 classes: the chief (the civil war and war chief) and his family, the nobles, and the commoners.

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