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5th grade · Social Studies · Unit 1 of 10

Nations Before Contact

Many nations, many ways of life

What your child practices

The many distinct Native nations of North America before contact and how they lived in different regions, their governments and trade, and how they shaped the early United States. Native nations are living communities today.

Oregon State Standards learning standard: 5.H.CP.10; 5.H.CE.8; 5.C.PI.1 · the distinct ways of knowing and living of Indigenous peoples of North America before contact, and their effects on the early United States

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Why did ways of life differ among Native nations?

    • they adapted to different lands, climates and resources
    • they never used resources
    • they all lived the same way

  2. Question 2

    The Haudenosaunee traditionally lived in long homes of wood and bark called…

    • pueblos
    • longhouses
    • igloos

  3. Question 3

    Native nations had their own…

    • no rules at all
    • only one leader for the continent
    • governments, laws and trade networks

  4. Question 4

    Before Europeans arrived, North America was home to…

    • a few small villages
    • hundreds of Native nations with different languages and ways of life
    • one nation with one language

  5. Question 5

    Native nations are…

    • living communities today
    • only in museums
    • only in the past

  6. Question 6

    Some historians say the Haudenosaunee Confederacy influenced…

    • the Tang dynasty
    • the founders of the United States
    • the Roman Empire

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