US States
Largest state in the United States.
Alaska
Largest river in the United States. It begins here in Minnesota at Lake Itasca and ends in Louisiana at the Gulf of Mexico (America).
Mississippi River
What is the most important animal to Great Plains Native Tribes?
Boston, Massachusetts
Who were the first Europeans to reach North America around the year 1000 AD / CE.
Vikings
Smallest state in the United States.
Rhode Island
Largest mountain range in the United States. It is located in Western US States like Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.
Rocky Mountains
Identify the 2 largest Native Tribes in Minnesota.
Anishinaabe / Ojibwe / Chippewa
Dakota / Lakota / Sioux
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Christopher Columbus was hired by Spain to sail across the Atlantic Ocean in the year ____.
1492
Most populated state in the United States.
California
Mountain Range in the Eastern United States. It crosses states like Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Appalachian Mountains
Famous Native American guide to the Lewis & Clark Expedition (Corps of Discovery). She was born to the Shoshone Tribe in Idaho but had been captured by the Hidatsa Tribe in North Dakota. Today North Dakota's largest lake is named after her.
Sakakawea or Sacagawea or Sacajawea
Name the first 2 battles of the Revolutionary War that occurred on April 19, 1775 in Massachusetts. The first battle was won by the British while the second was won by the Americans.
Lexington & Concord
After the failure and death of the Roanoke Colony in 1586, ______________ became the first successful English colony in North America in 1607.
Jamestown, Virginia
Least populated state in the United States.
Wyoming
What is the Native American name of the tallest mountain in the United States? It is located in Alaska and its English name is Mount McKinley.
Denali
Chief of the Lakota who defeated the US 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Greasy Grass (Little Bighorn) in 1876 and has a large monument still under construction in South Dakota.
Crazy Horse
The United States would NOT have won the war without the help of this European kingdom and their mighty navy.
France
The Plymouth Colony around Massachusetts Bay was settled in 1620 by a group of Christian Puritans called the ________ who were seeking religious freedom.
Pilgrims
Name the 5 inhabited U.S. Territories.
Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa.
Name the 5 Great Lakes.
Superior, Michigan, Huron, Eerie, and Ontario.
Which Native tribe helped inspire the 13 American Colonies to unite as one nation (the United States) during the American Revolution with examples like Hiawatha's Great Law of Peace and a democratic Confederacy form of government.
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)
Name the last major battle and the British commander who surrendered to end the American War for Independence.
Yorktown, Virginia
General Charles Cornwallis
The first Europeans to reach Minnesota were from which country?
France