This is an instrument that shows direction was used by early explorers.
What is a compass?
100
This term means to "take over and control."
What is conquer?
100
The Civil War started in this year.
What is 1861?
100
This terms means to go across a continent.
What is transcontinental?
100
This term means damage to land, air, and water from harmful materials.
What is pollution?
200
Term given by many scientists to the first people said to be in the Americas.
Who are Nomads?
200
The Pilgrims landed here when they arrived to America.
What is Plymouth Rock?
200
This was the President at the time of the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
For Native Americans this animal was the most important to them.
What is the buffalo?
200
To refuse to work until certain demands, such as higher wages or better working conditions, are met.
What is a strike?
300
Thousands of centuries ago the Americas were covered by these.
What are glaciers?
300
This Spanish explorer searched for the Fountain of Youth.
Who is Juan Ponce 'de Leon?
300
The worst battle of the Civil War started here on July 1, 1863.
Where is Gettysburg, Pennsylvania?
300
This person invented the telephone in 1876.
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
300
Name one thing that made working in the factories unsafe in the late 1800's.
What is poor lighting, very little fresh air, or unsafe machinery.
400
In around 1200 A.D. the Inca civilization developed here.
Where is South America?
400
This man was the leader of Jamestown.
Who is John Smith?
400
The Emancipation Proclamation did this.
What is ended slavery in the rebelling states?
400
In 1876, this U.S. officer took 225 of his men into a battle against the Lakota Indians led by Chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
Who was Colonel George Custer?
400
This is the name of a government grant that allows only the inventor to make, use, and sell an invention for a certain number of years.
What is a patent?
500
In around 1000 A.D. this Viking explorer reached the Atlantic coast of North America. He settled a colony called Vinland.
Who is Leif Erickson?
500
This group settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1628.
Who are the Puritans?
500
This was the total number of men lost in the Civil War.
What is approximately 618,000?
500
This act gave men who were 21 years of age, 160 acres of land. They had to pay $10, settle on the land for five years, build a home within six months, and grow crops.
What is the Homestead Act?
500
in the late 1800's this man controlled almost the entire oil industry in the United States.