West South Central States
East South Central States
South Atlantic States
Middle Atlantic States
New England States
100
Name the country bordering Texas to the southwest and the river that forms the international border between the two.
What are Mexico and Rio Grande?
100
This capital is known as the center for country music. Name this capital of Tennessee.
What is Nashville?
100
This bay joins the Atlantic Ocean on Virginia's eastern border and is the United State's largest estuary. This bay is famous for its blue crab. Many scientists are concerned that pollution in the bay is harming the crabs. Name this bay.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
100
This mountain range runs from New York south through Maryland. (This range runs all the way from Maine to Georgia, but since this answer is in the category of Middle Atlantic States, it still applies.)
What is the Appalachian Mountain Range?
100
The New England states are on the East Coast of the U.S. This ocean borders the East Coast.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
200
This state is one of the most multicultural. Its long time inhabitants are of American, Indian, French, Spanish, English, and African ancestry.
What is Louisiana?
200
The river to the north of Kentucky was part of the border that divided "free" states and slave states in the years before the American Civil War. Now, it also forms Kentucky's northern border. The record for the largest blue catfish ever caught was caught in this river.
What is the Ohio River?
200
Civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., was born in the capital of Georgia. Name this capital.
What is Atlanta?
200
This area became the nation's capital on June 11, 1800. Before that the land was part of Maryland, and Philadelphia was the U.S. capital. Although it no longer is part of another state, it is not a state itself. Name this area which serves as the capital of the United States.
What is Washington D.C.?
200
One thing the colonists got tired of was paying taxes to the King for things like tea. One day in 1773, to show their anger, some colonists climbed onto an English ship and threw all its tea in the Boston Harbor. The Boston Harbor is in Boston, Massachusetts. Name the two states that border Massachusetts to the south.
What are Connecticut and Rhode Island?
300
Louisiana's largest city was almost destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. This city is south of the capital, Baton Rouge, and located south of a lake, and where a river empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Name this city.
What is New Orleans?
300
Rosa Parks, a significant figure in the civil rights movement, was born and lived in Alabama. She famously refused to give up her seat on the bus, and her arrest sparked a boycott of the bus system in the capital city of her home state. Name this city.
What is Montgomery?
300
One hundred years ago, Orville and Wilbur Wright conducted the first successful airplane flight on an island off the northeast coast of North Carolina in a town. Name this town.
What is Kitty Hawk?
300
This city has been the largest city in the country since 1790. Over 8 million people live there now. It also was a former capital city of the U.S., before Philapdelphia, and Washington D.C. Even though it's the largest city in its state, it is not the state capital. Name the state that shares the name of this city.
What is New York?
300
The first state in the union to outlaw slavery was Vermont. 1. Name the state bordering Vermont to the east. 2. Name the state bordering Vermont to the west.
1. What is New Hampshire? 2. What is New York?
400
This state has more dangerous tornadoes than Texas. It also has a panhandle, (a narrow strip of land projecting out like a handle), on its northwest side.
What is Oklahoma?
400
Tennessee is the home state of the pioneer Davy Crockett, singer Dolly Parton, bluegrass musician Lester Flatt, and actor Morgan Freeman. There are three large cities in Tennessee, located in the western, middle, and eastern parts of the state. Name them.
What are Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville?
400
This state is nicknamed the "Palmetto State" for the palmetto tree, a form of palm tree and the official state tree. The palmetto tree's history in this state dates back to the Revolutionary War, when cannonballs from the British fleet bounced off the palmetto log walls of Fort Moultrie. The capital of this state is Columbia. Name this state.
What is South Carolina?
400
On Dec. 25th, 1776, George Washington launched a surprise attack that helped win the American Revolutionary War. He did this by crossing an icy river in the middle of the night. The river flows downstream to form a bay. Name this bay that is between New Jersey and the state to the south.
What is the Delaware Bay?
400
Name the three New England states sharing a border with Canada?
What are Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine?
500
Louisiana is the only state with a large population of _______, descendants of the Acadians who were driven out of Canada in the 1700's because they wouldn't pledge allegiance to the King of England.
What are Cajuns?
500
Kentucky's ___________ cave is the longest recorded cave system in the world. It has 350 miles of caves. Name this cave.
What is Mammoth?
500
Florida, the only state that was originally a colony of Spain, is a peninsula. 1. Name the ocean that borders Florida on the east. 2. Name the large body of water that borders Florida on the west.
1. What is the Atlantic Ocean? 2. What is the Gulf of Mexico?
500
Francis Scott Key wrote the United States anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner", in this state. This state's symbols include the Diamondback Terrapin, the Baltimore Oriole, and the Black-Eyed Susan. Name this state that borders Delaware on the west and south.
What is Maryland?
500
The Appalachian Trail, a hiking trail that runs through the Appalachain Mountains, goes from Maine to Georgia. If you started hiking south in Maine, name all the New England states you could hike through.
What are Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut?
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