MIDDLE SCHOOL U.S. HISTORY
This document, signed in 1776, declared the American colonies' independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This story follows a girl who leaves a glass slipper behind after fleeing a royal ball at midnight.
What is Cinderella?
This word describes a company that sells shares on the stock exchange, allowing anyone to buy ownership.
What is public?
This massive limestone statue, featuring the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh, sits near the Great Pyramids of Giza.
What is the Sphinx?
This park, located primarily in Wyoming, is known for its geysers, including the famous "Old Faithful."
What is Yellowstone?
This 1803 land deal with France nearly doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This story, published by Hans Christian Andersen, has a more tragic ending than its popular Disney adaptation, as protagonist turns to sea foam after failing to win the prince's love.
What is The Little Mermaid?
This type of business structure is owned by shareholders and treated as a separate legal entity from its owners.
What is a corporation?
This ancient Roman city was buried and preserved almost perfectly under volcanic ash after Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.
What is Pompeii?
This Arizona park protects a mile-deep gorge carved by the Colorado River over millions of years.
What is Grand Canyon National Park?
This U.S. Army officer led his troops to a disastrous defeat against the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.
Who is George Armstrong Custer?
In this story, two siblings abandoned in the woods by their parents follow a trail of breadcrumbs to find their way home, only to discover the birds have eaten the trail.
What is Hansel and Gretel?
This type of business structure combines the liability protection of a corporation with the tax benefits of a partnership, and is popular among small business owners.
What is an LLC (Limited Liability Company)?
This lost city in Peru, built by the Inca, was rediscovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911 and sits high in the Andes Mountains.
What is Machu Picchu?
This Utah park is known for its striking red sandstone cliffs and a narrow, walled slot canyon where visitors can hike directly through the shallow water.
What is Zion National Park?
This Virginia location is where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, effectively ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House?
In the original version of this story, the witch discovers the heroine's secret romance, cuts off her long hair, while her prince is blinded by thorns after falling from the tower.
What is Rapunzel?
This type of large company owns a controlling stake in several smaller, often unrelated businesses across different industries.
What is a conglomerate?
This massive collection of life-sized clay statues were buried with China's first emperor to protect him in the afterlife, and wasn't discovered until 1974.
What are the Terracotta Warriors (Terracotta Army)?
This Florida park protects the largest subtropical wilderness in the U.S. and is home to alligators, manatees, and a unique "river of grass" ecosystem.
What is Everglades National Park?
This document, ratified in 1781, served as the first constitution of the United States before being replaced due to its weak central government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This pair of German brothers published "Children's and Household Tales" in 1812, compiling hundreds of European folk stories (many far darker than their modern adaptations), including early versions of Cinderella, Snow White, and Rapunzel.
Who are the Brothers Grimm?
This type of company is owned and run by one person, who keeps all the profits but is also personally responsible for all debts.
What is a sole proprietorship?
This method, used by archaeologists to determine the age of organic material, measures the decay of a radioactive isotope over time.
What is radiocarbon/carbon dating?
This California park is home to towering trees, including General Sherman, the largest tree on Earth by volume.
What is Sequoia National Park?