Social Studies for Elementary Grades Entry Quiz Enter your Full Name. To be sure your teacher receives your quiz score, enter your teacher's email address. Before you do the quiz, why not Check out the latest Quiz Statistics and the Top Scores. Name: Teacher's email address: The United States has a government to help lots of people make decisions together. Did Native American people long ago have governments too? YES NO Do Native American tribes today sometimes have their own governments? YES NO Are all Native American governments the same? YES NO Does the chief of a plains tribe like the Lakotas or the Nez Perce make all the decisions himself? YES NO Name one quality of a good chief. They had to be the son of a powerful chief and be wealthy. Everything they did had to be for the good of the people, and not just for themselves. They had to be fierce and warlike and be able to ride a horse very well. Why did Sitting Bull and the Lakota people fight the United States soldiers? They were afraid of white people . They did not want to lose the land. What did Chief Joseph treasure most and want for his people? He wanted them to live free in their own country. He wanted them to have gold and power. A leader of the Native American people who come from the Pueblo nations is called a cacique (kah-SEE-kay). Is his group the leader all year round? YES NO Benjamin Franklin made sure that the new United States government copied the five nations of the Iroquois people who created something instead of making war on each other. What did they create? They created the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade. They created money that had an eagle on the coins. They created a confederacy of tribes who promised to help each other and not fight. The five tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy gave the United States new concepts that governments in Europe did not practice. Name one. Leaders must own land. People must be 21 years old to vote. A person should be able to speak without being interrupted by others. Wealthy and powerful people make the best leaders. © Nihewan Foundation 1999
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They had to be the son of a powerful chief and be wealthy. Everything they did had to be for the good of the people, and not just for themselves. They had to be fierce and warlike and be able to ride a horse very well.
They had to be the son of a powerful chief and be wealthy.
Everything they did had to be for the good of the people, and not just for themselves.
They had to be fierce and warlike and be able to ride a horse very well.
They were afraid of white people . They did not want to lose the land.
They were afraid of white people .
They did not want to lose the land.
He wanted them to live free in their own country. He wanted them to have gold and power.
He wanted them to live free in their own country.
He wanted them to have gold and power.
They created the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade. They created money that had an eagle on the coins. They created a confederacy of tribes who promised to help each other and not fight.
They created the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade.
They created money that had an eagle on the coins.
They created a confederacy of tribes who promised to help each other and not fight.
Leaders must own land. People must be 21 years old to vote. A person should be able to speak without being interrupted by others. Wealthy and powerful people make the best leaders.
Leaders must own land.
People must be 21 years old to vote.
A person should be able to speak without being interrupted by others.
Wealthy and powerful people make the best leaders.
