🍕 The Story of Pizza
Immigrants from this Italian city brought their simple flatbread recipes to America.
What is Naples? (Naples)
The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship from the people of this European country.
What is France?
For thousands of years before Europeans arrived, this Native American group lived on the island and called it "Mannahatta."
Who are the Lenape?
Broadway received this famous glowing nickname in the 1890s because of its bright electric signs.
What is "The Great White Way"?
This wealthy industrialist and philanthropist gave the money to build Carnegie Hall in 1891.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
In 1905, this Italian immigrant opened America’s first official pizzeria in Little Italy, New York.
Who is Gennaro Lombardi?
This vocabulary word means a safe, protected body of water next to land where ships can dock.
What is a harbor?
Dutch settlers started New Amsterdam as a trading post to buy and sell the valuable fur of this animal.
What is a beaver?
This vocabulary word means a large hall or building where people sit to watch a play or concert.
What is an auditorium?
This vocabulary word means the natural qualities of a hall that make musical sound clear and rich.
What is acoustics?
This vocabulary word describes a food or lifestyle that is simple, modest, and not fancy.
What is humble?
At Ellis Island, doctors and officials had to do this action to examine immigrants' health and papers carefully.
What is inspect?
The Dutch built a tall wooden wall to protect their town. Today, that location is this famous financial street.
What is Wall Street?
As New York grew northward, the theatre district started to do this action, meaning to get bigger and spread out.
What is expand?
In the late 1950s, artists fought to save the hall so developers would not do this action (knock it down).
What is demolish?
After returning home from this war, American soldiers had a huge craving for pizza, making pizzerias spread across the country.
What is World War II?
This date is inscribed on the tablet held by the Statue of Liberty to celebrate American independence.
What is July 4, 1776?
In 1664, Governor Peter Stuyvesant chose to do this action, meaning to stop fighting and give up control to the British.
What is surrender?
Theatre owners built large new auditoriums near this numbered street because land was cheaper and had more space.
What is 42nd Street?
Duke Ellington gave this type of pioneering, innovative jazz performance on a classical stage.
What is groundbreaking?
This vocabulary word means a basic, essential food (like bread, rice, or pizza) that people eat regularly.
What is a staple?
This vocabulary word means a family member who lived a long time ago, such as a great-grandparent.
What is an ancestor?
New Amsterdam was full of people speaking 18 different languages. This adjective describes a group made of many backgrounds.
What is diverse?
This adjective describes great storytelling or art that never loses its value and lasts forever.
What is timeless?
Carnegie Hall is an officially recognized, historic building. This word describes such a protected building or site.
What is a landmark?