The correct answer is A) families shared longhouses but also lived separately in wigwams.
The statement that best describes the housing used by the American Indian cultures of the Northeast in approximately 1500 is "families shared longhouses but also lived separately in wigwams."
As agriculture increased in the Northeast regions inhabited by the Iroquoians, urbanization represented an issue for the tribes. The work in the fields required that Indians lived together in villages to take care of the crops. They lived in longhouses and also in small wigwams because the Indians still hunt animals and fished in the rivers. The Iroquians and the Algonquians realized in that time for the farming fields and trade.