Early Kentucky
Famous pioneer who blazed the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap.
Who is Daniel Boone?
Event where colonists dumped tea into the harbor to protest British taxes.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The major mountain range running through eastern Kentucky.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
Goods produced in Kentucky and sold to other countries or states.
What are Exports?
The city that serves as the capital of Kentucky.
What is Frankfort?
This trail allowed thousands of settlers to cross the mountains into Kentucky.
What is the Wilderness Road?
Document signed in 1776 stating the colonies were free from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The large ocean that borders the East Coast of the United States.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Goods brought into Kentucky from other places to be sold here.
What are Imports?
The supreme law of the United States, written in 1787.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The first European explorer to build a cabin in KY and name the Cumberland Gap.
Who is Dr. Thomas Walker?
The slogan colonists used to protest taxes: "No Taxation Without _______."
What is Representation?
This river forms the entire northern border of Kentucky.
What is the Ohio River?
When there is not enough of a resource (like water or money) to satisfy everyone's wants.
What is Scarcity?
The branch of government that makes the laws (Congress).
What is the Legislative Branch?
The natural break in the Appalachian Mountains that allowed settlers to pass through.
What is the Cumberland Gap?
Colonists who supported freedom from Britain were called Patriots; those who supported the King were called this.
Who are Loyalists?
The longest river in North America, flowing south into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
Trading goods for other goods without using money (e.g., furs for gunpowder)
What is Barter?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution that protect our rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
One of the first forts built in Kentucky, established by Daniel Boone near the Kentucky River.
What is Boonesborough?
The war fought between the American Colonies and Great Britain for independence.
What is the Revolutionary War?
Kentucky is bordered by this many states (Bonus: Name 3 of them)
What is Seven?
In a market, if the price of a toy goes up, the demand usually goes ______.
What is Down?
This person is the head of the Executive Branch of Government.
What is President?
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What is Governor?