Vocabulary #1
Vocabulary #2
People #1
Holidays and Monuments
100
This is a piece of art carved from stone or made from metal and other materials.
What is a sculpture?
100
This is something created to honor and remember a person or an event.
What is a monument?
100
This person is a tall-tale hero of the American Southwest.
Who is Pecos Bill?
100
This holiday is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November.
What is Thanksgiving?
200
This is medicine that keeps people from getting a disease.
What is a vaccine?
200
This are stories told by Greeks and Romans using gods and goddesses to explain why something in nature is the way it is.
What are myths?
200
This person found peaceful solutions to problems by helping settlers.
Who is Chief Plenty Coups?
200
This monument in St. Louis, Missouri, honors the brave pioneers who settled the West.
What is the Gateway Arch?
300
This uses humorous exaggeration to explain how something came to be the way it is.
What is a tall tale?
300
This is a tale that started as a fact and later added details that may not have actually happened.
What is a legend?
300
This person created a vaccine for polio.
Who is Jonas Salk?
300
This is the holiday to celebrate our country's birthday and independence.
What is the Fourth of July?
400
This is something that keeps a memory alive.
What is a memorial?
400
Stories and poems that people write are considered this.
What is literature?
400
Frederick Douglass spent most of his life speaking and writing about this topic.
What is slavery?
400
These people's faces are shown on Mount Rushmore.
Who are the four most important United States Presidents? George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt
500
This shows the outside and inside of an object at the same time.
What is a cutaway diagram?
500
These are the qualities that people show, such as strength, courage, and humor.
What are character traits?
500
This First Lady and American hero worked to end poor living conditions and fought for the basic rights of all.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
500
This is a national holiday to honor citizens who have given their lives for the United States.
What is Memorial Day?
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