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Native Americans
Chapter 3 Test
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Social Studies
4th Grade
12/10/2012

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Pennsylvanian Period
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Time when Pennsylvania's coal beds formed.Climate was warmer and wetter than it is now.
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Iroquois League of five nations
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Group of nations who chose to follow the same governing rules
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Palisade
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Fenced walls made from logs
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Half Moon
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Henry Hudson, an English explorer hired by the Dutch. The half moon was his ship
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Etienne Brule
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Explored area around the Susquehanna River. Many believe he was the first European to set foot in Pennsylvania
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Peter Stuyvesant
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He was the governor of new Netherlands Dutch colony northeast of new Sweden and what is now New York New Jersey and Delaware.
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Armegott Printz
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She ran family estate on Tinicum Island
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Native Americans arrive
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After the Ice Age and the weather climate became warmer in America.Native Americans being growing crops in Pennsylvania on 3000 years ago.This allowed Native Americans to settle and live in pennsylvania.  The algonquian included the Delaware ot Lenni Lenape and the Shawnee.

 

Another group was the iroquios which included the Susquehannock.

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The Lenni Lenape
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Lived along the banks of the Delaware Brandywine Rivers. Man hunted animals for food and clothing.Women group crops for food. In the winter they gathered in long houses to tell stories and give thanks for food. By the 1700s they were forced off their land they move westward into Ohio and Oklahoma.
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The Nomads
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People who travel search of food
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Agriculture
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Planting seeds and growing crops
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Longhouse
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A long wooden building is covered by bark or grass and shared by several families
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Fossil
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The preserved remains of a plant or animal from long ago
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Archaeologist
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 scientist who study the lives and cultures people from the past
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Paleontologist
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Scientists who learns about the past by studying fossils
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