Famous Americans
This location is where Neil Armstrong said, "That's one small step for a man, on giant leap for mankind."
What is the moon?
The capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. The D.C. stands for this.
What is the District of Columbia?
Name the US President that first spoke of "a government of the people, by the people, for the people."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Name the series of books where "The Friz" takes her students on trips through the human body and inside the Earth.
What is THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS series?
A picture of this famous "uncle" used to appear on recruiting posters when America was at war. Name this uncle.
Who is Uncle Sam?
This famous American flew a kite to prove that lightning is electricity during a thunderstorm in Philadelphia in 1752.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Name the city in the Midwest that is known as "Motor City."
What is Detroit?
The FBI is our national detective agency. The letters "FBI" stand for this.
What is the Federal Bureau of Investigation?
Name the famous author who wrote LITTLE WOMEN.
Who is Louisa May Alcott?
Name the historical document that turned the American colonies into the United States of America.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This brave American refused to give up her seat on the bus which was reserved for whites.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This mountain chain begins in Alaska and extends all the way down to New Mexico.
What is the Rock Mountains?
Name the American document that became the law of the land in 1788.
What is the Constitution of the United States?
Name the legendary lumberjack who strode through the northern forest with a giant blue ox named Babe.
Who is Paul Bunyon?
Gorge Washington's army spent the long, hard winter of 1777-1778 at this valley. Name the valley.
What is Valley Forge?
In the early 1800s, these two men led an expedition that covered 4,000 miles of the American West.
Who is Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
Lewis and Clark is acceptable.
This bay cuts the state of Maryland almost in half. Name this bay.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
State the name we gave to the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Scholastic publishes a very popular series by J.K. Rowling. Name the series.
What is the Harry Potter series?
Name the symbol of freedom given to the people of America as a gift from the people of France.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
During the Depression of the 1930s, this President told the nation, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Put these major cities in order from west to east: Grand Rapids, Seattle, Providence and Bismarck.
What is Seattle (WA), Bismarck ( ND), Grand Rapids (MI), and Providence (RI)?
Our national government is made up of three branches. Name all three.
What is the executive branch, the legislative branch, and judicial branch?
In 1969, half a million people gathered for an outdoor music festival in upstate NewYork. Name the festival.
What is Woodstock?
America was named after a famous Italian explorer. Name him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?