American Revolution
The first president of the United States and a general during the American Revolution.
Who is George Washington?
The main character of Treasure Island
Who is Jim Hawkins?
A poem paragraph.
What is a stanza?
The study of rocks.
What is Geology?
The town in which the Spindletop Gusher was discovered.
What is Beaumont, Texas?
A law imposed by the British Government requiring colonists to buy 'stamps' along with all their paper goods and thus pay extra taxes.
The treacherous pirate masquerading as a ship's cook who betrays Captain Smollett and Jim Hawkins.
Who is Long John Silver?
A type of figurative language in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as.'
The innermost layer of the earth.
What is the core?
Sources of energy made from the remains of organic material buried far under the earth millions of years ago.
What are fossil fuels?
A war that took place decades before the American Revolution between the French, a few Native American Nations and the British.
What is the French and Indian War?
When the sailors on a ship fight to depose their captain and control the ship themselves.
What is mutiny?
A type of figurative language in which two things are compared WITHOUT using 'like' or 'as.'
What is a metaphor?
One of the three major types of rock.
What is sedimentary, igneous or metamorphic?
A natural fat that was used as fuel for lamps and candles before petroleum was discovered.
What is whale blubber?
The elm under which the Sons of Liberty met when planning their protests against the British Crown.
What is the Liberty Tree?
What is a league?
An animal to which the fog over a city is compared in Carl Sandburg's classic poem "Fog."
The large platforms of rock that rest on the earth's mantle and make up the earth's surface, slowly drifting over time.
What are tectonic plates?
Make a thirty-second argument for the discovery of oil at Spindletop being good for the city of Beaumont.
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A set of four coercive laws imposed on the American colonists that sparked even greater anger and rebellion in the colonies, including the Quartering Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Boston Port Act and the Administration of Justice Act.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
What is a moidore, doubloon or sequin?
A poetic device in which words with similar vowel sounds appear consecutively.
What is assonance?
The scientist who first proposed the theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The brothers who innovated a way to extract oil from the sandy soil of Spindletop Hill.
Who are the Hamills?