Vocabulary Matching Quiz

Vocabulary Matching: Group 2 1. ______ allies 2. ______ ceded 3. ______ colonist 4. ______ unify 5. ______ ventured 6. ______ independence

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Vocabulary Matching: Group 3 1. ______ elegant 2. ______ felt 3. ______ pelt 4. ______ potential 5. ______ quest 6. ______ trek

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Who were the first people in South Dakota?

• Archaeologist

• Allies

• Colonist

• Clovis hunters

A long time ago South Dakota (Badlands) were actually covered by?

• Volcanoes

• Rainforest

• Marshes

• Grasslands

What group of people left the first written record of life in South Dakota in the form of petroglyphs?

• Sioux

• Plains Archaic

• Europeans

• Mandans

Petroglyphs are (a)   literately carved in stone.

The woodland people began to build ________________ ____________________ for their dead.

• Log Cabins

• Burial Mounds

• Pet Graves

Christopher Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492. He thought he had reached the East Indies. What was the name for the people he met on San Salvador?

• Sioux

• Mandans

• Indians

• Fellows

The earliest written record of any peoples in South Dakota is that of the three Sioux tribes. What are the three Sioux tribes?

• Missouri River people

• Great Plains people

• Lakota, Pakota, Sakota

• Mandan, Arichia, and Pawnees

• Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota

What is a winter count?

• Each year an important event was recorded often on animal skins

• Counts the days of winter

• Keeps track of how many people are born in winter