Geography
Largest river in the United States
What is the Mississippi River?
Region with mountains, mesas, and deserts and 5-story apartment buildings with ladders called pueblos
What is the Southwest?
Name of the explorer who in 1492 sailed the ocean blue with three ships: the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria
Who was Columbus?
group of first black pilots in the U.S. military
Who are the Tuskagee Airmen?
Name of the Native American who taught Pilgrims how to plant corn, catch fish, and get sweep syrup from trees.
Who is Squanto?
An imaginary line that circles Earth halfway between the North Pole and South Pole
What is the equator?
Name of region with heavy rainfall, cedar forests, plenty of fish, totem poles, and cedar capes.
What is the Northwest?
English explorer who searched, but never found, the Northwest Passage and was eventually left by his crew, in small boat with just his son and seven others..with no food and never to be seen again.
Who was Henry Hudson?
Name of the most famous Civil Rights Activist who was a Baptist minister and won the Nobel Peace Prize
Who was MLK?
President of Jamestown who declared that if colonists did not work, they would not eat.
Who was Captain John Smith?
the largest mountain range in North America
What are the Rockies?
Objects made by humans
What are artifacts?
Explorer who searched for the Fountain of Youth
Who was Juan Ponce de Leon?
a group of nine black students who were the first to attend formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
The word carved into the gatepost in the lost colony of Roanoke
What is Croatoan?
Second largest mountain range in the U.S.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
Word for groups that move from place to place as changes in seasons made food available in different areas.
What is nomadic?
Name of Spanish explorer who held an Aztec emperor captive and conquered the Aztec empire
Who was Hernan Cortes?
DAILY DOUBLE
Word that means being separated by race
What is segregated?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!
Name of the tobacco growing man Pocahontas married.
Who was John Rolfe?
Where a river begins
What is a source?
Region of grasslands that extends from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River Valley and is the home to deer, bison, and antelope.
What is the Great Plains?
A French nobleman who founded a failing colony and when he went on search for help, was murdered by his own men who had decided he was crazy.
Who was Robert de La Salle?
Name of court case that made segregation illegal
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Name of people who left England to separate from the Church of England and moved to the New World for religious freedom.
Who were Separatists?