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| The mounds were built in many sizes and shapes |
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| Has a heavy body and resembles a pheasant. |
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| Benjamin Franklin recommended the wild turkey for the national bird. |
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| Around A.D.1400 the tribes five Iroquois tribes the Mohawk Oneida Onondaga Cayuga and Seneca joined together and formed the Iroquois League of Five Nations. |
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| One of the most biggest mammals in the Eastern Woodlands |
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| Similar to log cabins but were sometimes as much as one hundred feet long. |
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| The area we now call Kentucky |
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| One of the earliest American cultures in the Eastern Woodlands |
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| The eastern most tribe of the Iroquios League. Mohawk means man-eaters. They were fierce fighters and warriors. |
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| The fourth largest country in the world. |
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| 4.2 Appalachian Mountains |
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| The most prominent landform Eastern North America is a system of low mountain ranges. |
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| Through which pioneer families passed on their way west. |
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| The largest known underground cave system in the world. |
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| Slopes from the eastern edge of the Applachian down to the Atlantic coastal plains. |
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| A word which means "runaway" |
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| A low marshy area of tall grasses and swamps in what is now southern Florida. |
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| Indians that thePilgrims invited to share that first Thanksgiving dinner. |
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| One of the most civilized tribes of the eastern United States. |
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| An English puritan,came to Bostin to pastor church. |
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| A Sweedish Lutheran missionarywho traveled to New Sweden |
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| A native of Connecticut, who gave his life as a missionary to the native Americans. |
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| A faithful Indian helper who interpreted words into Indian language. |
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| He fought to keep all white men out of indian territory |
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| Since the Cherokees had no written language,Sequoya invited one |
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