Global Events This Week
Grade 9 US History
Which school is it?
100

This week President Trump agreed to ease sanctions against Russia by purchasing 1.8 metric tons of this good (likely as a pre-election ploy to bring down prices).

What is DIESEL OIL?

100

The first English colony to legislate that a state of slavery is passed matrilineally in 1705.

What is VIRGINIA?

100

The Hanlon school was named for Paul Hanlon, a former chairman of the Board of Selectmen in 1985.  Prior to 1985 it was known by this name.

What is the Pine Hill School?

200

This week, this NATO country that borders the Black Sea summoned the Russian ambassador over the targeting of its ships by drones.  It was hit despite sharing no land border with Ukraine.

What is BULGARIA?
200

Which Native American people are known as "the people of the first light." Likely due to their position in the Northeast.

What is the WAMPANOAG?

200

This school is named for a former Superintendent of schools in Westwood.

What is Thurston?

300

Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to THIS SOUTHERN EUROPEAN COUNTRY and former fiancee to Donald Trump Jr. was asked to resign after asking a republican donor to pay her credit bill of $100,000. I guess it will be short-lived diplomatic Odyssey for her!

What is GREECE?

300

Knowledge of the Mayflower Compact (1620) and the First Thanksgiving survive only through the diary of this English settler at Plymouth.

Who was WILLIAM BRADFORD?

300
In 1905 this local school was moved from its original Clapboardtree site to Milk Street where it was used to store hay until it was purchased by the town in 1994.

What is the Fisher School?

400

The disputed Ukrainian city of Donetsk was known as Yuzovka from 1869-1924, named for a Welsh man named John Hughes who helped to establish this industry in the region.

What is COAL MINING? (would also take steel)
400

The case before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court by Quock Walker and Elizabeth Freeman in 1781 established settled that the Declaration of Independence made this practice illegal in the Commonwealth from then onward.

What is SLAVERY?

400

This school, which currently sits on High Street, was established in 1877 as a school for grades 1-8.  It was used as the district administration office until 2005.  It now has a bank on the first floor.

What is the COLBURN SCHOOL?

500

12 people were killed this week in an attack on a Saudi airport, conducted by THIS Shi'ite rebel group in Yemen.

Who are the HOUTHI?

500

This Shawnee leader fought to prevent the spread of American colonists beyond the Proclamation Line of 1763. He died trying to accomplish this in the War of 1812. Union General George Sherman was given his name for his middle name showing the respect he was given by the United States after his death.

Who is TECUMSEH?

500

When opened in 1948 the Sheehan School went by this name which combined two nearby geographic features of the immediate area (and is the name for a nearby street).

What is POND PLAIN School?

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