Historical Figures
This First Lady of the United States helped lead several White House initiatives for women, children, Native Americans, and Black people.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
The Ancient Greeks invented this competition for the best athletes.
What is the Olympics?
This war began when the Southern states seceded from the U.S. Government.
What is the Civil War?
These insects live in hexagon-shaped hives with a queen.
What are bees?
This flying machine, invented by Igor Sikorsky, is operated by propellers.
What is a helicopter?
This Civil Rights Leader gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
This was created in Ancient China to make writing on surfaces easier.
What is paper?
This war began when the British were making trade difficult for American merchants.
What is the War of 1812?
What is a life cycle?
This flying machine was discovered when one inventor learned that heat could cause paper to go into the air.
What is a hot air balloon?
This African American woman founded a school, library, hospital, and college during a time when Black children weren't able to attend school.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
The Ancient Chinese found insects that create this smooth, light material.
What is silk?
At the end of the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclomation abolished this.
What is slavery?
This beetle has the word 'bug' in its name, but is actually not considered a bug.
What is a ladybug?
This flying machine was originally built by the Wright Brothers, but has been changed and improved upon over time.
What is the airplane?
This suffragette voted illegally in an election, years before women gained the right to vote.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This river is viewed as a sacred body of water in some Indian religions.
What is the Indus River?
This famous figure helped lead the Underground Railroad to free enslaved people.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This term is used to describe what happens to rain after it falls to the sky, and before it goes back up again.
What is the water cycle?
This Chinese invention was made to speed up the printing process during a time when books were handwritten one page at a time.
What is the printing block?
This immigrant came to America and became a famous scientist, even though he was almost turned away.
Who is Charles Steinmetz?
The Ancient Greeks invented this form of government, which is still used today.
What is democracy?
This man was President during the War of 1812.
Who is James Madison?
Butterflies go through this sort of change, as they enter a chrysallis as a caterpillar and exit as a butterfly.
What is a metamorphosis?
This invention was created in Ancient Asia, to help farmers water their crops.
What are irrigation canals?