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AP U.S. History Exam 2.4. How did trades like the one shown in the image lead to greater conflict among Native American groups?
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- 00:00
[ musical flourish ]
- 00:02
And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by hunter-gatherers,
- 00:05
a kidnapping ring solely focused on kids named Hunter. [a tribal man looking for Hunter]
- 00:09
Yeah, they're really mean. Avoid them, please.
- 00:11
All right, how were the societies in the Northwest
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- 00:14
similar to those in parts of California?
- 00:17
And here are your potential answers. [image of map of The U.S]
- 00:18
[ mumbles ]
- 00:24
Okay.
- 00:26
Native American societies in North America lived
- 00:28
their lives according to the rules of the lands they settled on. [a tribal man and woman arguing about the land]
- 00:32
At least until the Europeans came and shook things up.
- 00:35
So let's see which answer best describes
- 00:37
how tribes in the West were different from the rest.
- 00:40
Were societies in the Northwest
- 00:42
similar to those in parts of California because A - [a tribal man looking at a house made of teepee]
- 00:46
their homes were mobile so they could follow herds of animals?
- 00:50
Well, actually, the most mobile societies were nomadic tribes
- 00:54
in the Plains region. So that gets rid of A.
- 00:57
Were societies along the West coast similar because C - [a man lost in a corn field]
- 01:01
their economies depended on maize that spread from Mexico?
- 01:05
No, corn. That a-maize-ing stuff.
- 01:07
Well, hmm. Maize from Mexico played a
- 01:10
big role for Southwestern tribes
- 01:12
who built their homes in the sides of the cliffs and mountains. [two tribal women having a conversation]
- 01:16
So that's puebl-y not C or D.
- 01:19
Get that? Pueblo? That's a bad joke. Sorry.
- 01:22
Get rid of that thing.
- 01:23
All right. Which means societies in the Northwest
- 01:26
were similar to those in parts of California because B - [a tribal man hunting for potatoes]
- 01:29
they survived on a mix of hunting and gathering.
- 01:32
California covers a bunch of land from North to South,
- 01:35
which means it probably has more in common with the Northwest
- 01:38
than New Mexico and Arizona.
- 01:40
And unlike farmers in the Southwest,
- 01:42
Northwestern tribes survived on a mix of [image of men carrying potatoes]
- 01:45
hunting and gathering. So B is the right answer.
- 01:47
And for societies in that part of North America,
- 01:50
nuts and berries were all the for-rage.
- 01:53
Forage? Boy, we really stretched on that one. [an old man on the street checking something]
- 01:57
[ laughter ]
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