The Long Lines
Maps
Colonial America
Potpourri
Westward Expansion
100

What are meridians

lines longitude

100

If you are looking at a birds eye view map of the  school, which part of the building would you see?

What is the roof?

100
How many original colonies were there?
What is 13.
100

Which state is made of islands?

What is Hawaii?

100
What do you call a group of wagons traveling west together?
What is a wagon trail
200

Where do the lines of longitude meet?

The North and South pole

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

Where does the prime meridian pass through?

Greenwich, England

300

Where do we find what the pictures on a map represent?

What is a map key?

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 country is north of the U.S.?

Canada

300
Give three challenges pioneers faced along the trail?
What is starvation, sickness, extreme weather, indian attacks, broken wagons.
400

Lines of longitude run?

What is North and South

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

What is the imaginary line at 0 degrees longitude?

What is prime meridian?

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

What is a compass rose?

It tells the directions on a map.

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?
Who is Thomas Jefferson
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