If you are looking at a birds eye view map of the Lower School, which part of the building would you see?
What is the roof or top of the Lower School building
100
How many original colonies were there?
What is 13.
100
Who was Leif Eriksson's father (Hint: There is a color in his name)
What is Erik The Red
100
What do you call a group of wagons traveling west together?
What is a wagon trail
200
What is the Jolly Roger?
What is the black and white, skull and crossbones symbol on a flag.
200
What is the difference between cardinal directions and ordinal directions?
What is cardinal directions are North, South, East & West. Ordinal directions are a combination of two cardinal directions (Northeast, Southwest, Southeast)
200
Which country ruled the 13 colonies?
What is England
200
True or False: Religion was brought over to the New World and forced upon the native people who were already living there.
What is TRUE
200
Give two reasons why people chose to move west
What is Opportunity, Freedom, Space
300
What does the word RAID mean?
What is to entrance into another's territory for the purpose of seizing goods or valuables
300
The Triangle includes these three areas (continents).
What is Europe, Americas, Africa?
300
Pilgrims signed this document while they sailed to the New World. It was an early form of representative government.
What is The Mayflower Compact
300
What is the name of the cruise ship in the book Sea Legs?
What is The Mona Lisa
300
Give three challenges pioneers faced along the trail?
What is starvation, sickness, extreme weather, indian attacks, broken wagons.
400
What COUNTRY in Europe were the conquistadors from?
What is SPAIN
400
If you are traveling from South Carolina to Connecticut, in which cardinal direction are you traveling?
What is North
400
The first attempt of an English settlement in the New World. Sometimes known as the “Lost Colony.”
What is the Roanoke Colony
400
What was the name of the law that forced Native Americans out of their homes and off their land?
What is the Indian Removal Act (1830)
400
Name the trail that honors the Cherokee people that died when forced off their land
What is The Trail of Tears
500
A series of inter-connected trade routes through Asia that connected China to Europe.
What is The Silk Road
500
Explain in your own words what 'map scale' is
What is it indicates the relationship between the distances on the map and the actual distances on Earth.
500
Maine later became a state, but originally was a part of this colony.
What is Massachusetts
500
How did the Louisiana Purchase affect the size of America?
What is it doubled the size of the nation
500
Who hired Lewis & Clark and paid for their expedition?