Advanced Placement-Style United States History
Practice Question of the Day



Cahokia: the walkways are modern, the manmade hills are not
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Question 910:

The Indian tribes settling in the Mississippi River Valley region in pre-Columbian America

    (A) built cliff dwellings and elaborate canal systems
    (B) never developed large settlements
    (C) established a settlement near the present city of St. Louis that featured temple mounds and may have included 40,000 people
    (D) built stepped pyramids, had a glyphic writing system, and very accurate calendars
    (E) roamed the Great Plains as nomads and mainly hunted buffalo



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