Year Long Theme
The production and exchange of goods and servcices?
What is the economy?
This mountain range marks the borders of North Carolina and Tennessee and the two Virginias
Where is the Appalachian Mountains?
This branch has the senate and house of representatives. It is where our leaders most directly represent their people. (The official name of the branch)
People with this first name wrote most of the primary sources we have read in this class.
Who is Thomas?
"When we were on death's door when we were needy
We made a promise, we signed a treaty.
We needed money and guns and half a chance,
Uhh who provided those funds?
______________________"
Where is France?
What is the slope of a line passing through the points (2, 4) and (4, 6)?
What is the number one?
This state's entire southern border the Rio Grande River and the Gulf of Mexico.
The nation where Mr. Wilson was born.
Where is the People's Republic of China?
The grandson of Genghis Khan
A model that sets the standard for how to deal with future issues of a similar problem?
What is a precedent?
This river carves the Grand Canyon and holds what was once called the Boulder Dam.
Where is the Colorado River?
If a bill passes through congress, the President can sighn or _____ it and it goes back to Congress.
What is Veto?
This is the name for the President's group of advisors like Secretary of State or Secretary of the Treasury.
What is the Cabinet?
"At Yorktown the British could not retreat,
Bottled up by Washington and the French _________,
Cornwallis surrendered and finally we had won!"
What is fleet?
What 'ism' does Puritan Literature reflect?
What is realism?
This state has the Crazy Horse monument and Mount Rushmore
Where is South Dakota
Mr. Wilson's former roommate of 2017 to 2019. (No credit for partial answers)
Who is Señor Jung?
The war fought over the Ohio River valley between France and England?
What is the Seven Years War or The French and Indian War?
In the electoral college, it doesn't matter how much of a states votes a candidate wins. If they win the majority of votes, they get all of the states' electoral vote. This is called ________________.
What is "Winner take all" ?
This is where the British general Cornwallis surrendered ending the American Revolution after being surrounded by the French Fleet.
Where is Yorktown?
This is the name of the first ten amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights?
What is The House of Representatives?
One night they crossed the ______________,
Surprised the Hessians in their lair,
And at Valley Forge they just bundled up their feet!
Where is the Delaware?
This term is used to describe a quantity that has both magnitude and direction.
What is a vector?
This state has more people than Wyoming and less than Washington DC. Also the home of Ben and Jerry's.
Where is Vermont?
The show represented on Mr. Wilson's mug as of the week of 21 Sept to 25 Sept
What is Parks and Recreation?
The name of the explorer who's ship was the first to circumnavigate the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan
Most commonly practiced religion in America. (No credit for partial answers)
What is Protestantism?
This national park holds the "death strip" where theoretically (but not legitimately likely), one could get away with a crime
Where is Yellowstone?
The responsibility of the Judicial branch of the United States government is to make sure laws are __________.
What is Constitutional?
This political party is anti federalist and was not a fan of strong centralized federal government as it was too much like a monarchy for their liking.
Who are the Democratic Republicans?
"Well, now I'm stuck in committee And I'll sit here and wait While a few key Congressmen discuss and _____________ "
What is debate?
The atomic number of this element is 11, the symbols has the Latin "natrium," and used in MSG - Commonly used to enhance Chinese food.
Sodium
This state contains the highest point in the United States outside of Alaska and Hawaii
Where is California?
Who are the St. Louis Cardinals?
The Roman emperor that cut Rome in half?
It facilitates the production and exchange of goods and services and it brings and holds a society together.
What is infrastructure?
This Great Lake makes up Ohio's Northern border
Where is Lake Erie?
This was the original constitution but we scrapped it since it didn't contain the people's written rights and it made the government too weak
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This native American tribe made a Constitution older than ours but has similar ideas to our Constitution.
Who are the Iroquois
"You can catch me in Phoenix, Arizona, or Sacramento, California, yeah
St. Paul, Minnesota, maybe,______________ , Alaska, yeah"
Where is Juneau?
This type of religion is made by humanity where they see the effect/result and search for the cause.
What is an evolved religion?
This is the state that Canada at one point offered to buy from the United States.
The book that Mr. Wilson is currently reading
What is Salt?
The name of the cruel program of "separateness" in South Africa that persisted until 1994
What is Apartheid?
The combined value of all goods and services produced within a nation's national borders.
What is GDP?
The name of the tallest mountain in all of North America
Where is Mt. Whitney or Mt. Denali?
If you draw a straight line going South of the White House and a line going West of the Capital building, they intersect at/closest to this land mark.
What is the Washington Monument?
This nation originally controlled New York before it ended up in the hands of the British
Who are the Dutch?
If we assume the debts, the union gets new line of credit, a financial diuretic
How do you not get it, if we're aggressive and competitive
The union gets a boost, you'd rather give it a ____________________?
What is sedative?
This term is used to describe how far something has traveled "as the crow flies".
What is displacement?
This state is the fifth largest state by land size
Where is New Mexico?
This is Mr. Wilson's Chinese name.
Who is Sun Kaishan?
The __________________, in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.
It contains the Rosetta Stone, and an Easter Island head.
Where is the British Museum?