SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Wood from the forests of Pennsylvania
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wood from burned down log cabins
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Native American plank houses were only built out of cedarwood, and they were typically around one hundred feet long.
Detailed explanation-2: -Pennsylvania Natives Tools, weapons, and household equipment were made from stone, wood, and bark. Transportation was on foot or by canoe. Houses were made of bark, clothing from the skins of animals.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many used wood posts from evergreens like pine, spruce, and cedar for their dwellings. Plains Indians would travel for days to obtain lodgepole pine logs since they were very straight and of a relatively small diameter so they could be more easily handled.
Detailed explanation-4: -Tepee is also known as “tipi”. It is a cone-shaped tent made of animal hide and wooden poles that used to be the usual dwelling of nomadic Native Americans living on the Indian Plains and other terrains in America. Teepees could be easily assembled and disassembled.
Detailed explanation-5: -The original inhabitants of what is now Pennsylvania included the Lenape, or Delaware, tribe and the Susquehannock tribe. Other tribes, particularly the Nanticoke and the Shawnee, migrated into Pennsylvania and New Jersey after the Europeans arrived.