All About Vikings and Early Explorers
This Viking is believed to be the first European to land in North America around the year 1000.
Who is Leif Erikson?
These people came to America in 1620 on the Mayflower seeking religious freedom.
Who are the Pilgrims?
This was the first permanent English colony in America, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
This important date marked when the United States declared that they were an independent nation.
What is July 4th, 1776?
This document was signed by George Washington.
What is the Constitution?
These were used by the Vikings to read and write.
What are Runes?
This Native American helped the Pilgrims learn how to plant crops and survive.
Who is Squanto (Tisquantum)?
This colony disappeared and to this day nobody knows what happened to the settlers.
What is the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
This important event was the start of unrest that brought about the Revolutionary War.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The President, the Vice President, and 15 cabinet members are included in this branch.
What is the Executive Branch?
These three ships carried an important mission for Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand.
What are the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
This colony is where the Pilgrims were headed before a storm knocked them off course.
What is Jamestown?
These three crops were grown in the Southern Colonies.
What are tobacco, indigo, and cotton?
This woman rode 40 miles to warn that the British were coming.
Who is Sybil Ludington?
Name one of the rights in the Bill of Rights. Two for double the points.
What is:
First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Second Amendment
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Third Amendment
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Fourth Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Fifth Amendment
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Sixth Amendment
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
Seventh Amendment
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Eighth Amendment
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Ninth Amendment
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Tenth Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
This explorer was credited for circumventing around the entire world, however he died before he could take the trip with his crew.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This Native American tribe helped the Pilgrims and celebrated the first Thanksgiving with them.
Who were the Wampanoag?
Name three jobs an apprentice might learn.
What are blacksmith, shoemaking, silversmith, printer, wood craver, tailor?
This document was signed in France to end the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This founding father put his name the largest on the Declaration of Independence so the King of England could see it.
This Spanish explorer searched for the Fountain of Youth in Florida.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
The agreement the Pilgrims made to govern themselves was called this.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Name three colonies (states) that were part of the New England Colonies.
What are New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut?
This holiday was used as a distraction to cross the icy Delaware River to surprise the Hessians to take back Trenton.
What is Christmas?
The Judicial Branch is in charge of this.
What is responsible for interpreting and applying existing laws to the cases that come before it. For example, the judicial branch decides everything from criminal and civil cases and applies the laws of the jurisdiction, as well as the Constitution to them?