Indigenous People
The day designated as Indigenous Peoples' Day in the United States every year
What is the second Monday of October?
The largest country in South America, formerly part of the Portuguese Empire.
What is Brazil?
What is celebrated in Mexico and many other Latin American countries instead of Halloween?
Dia de los Muertos
The two European countries that make up the peninsula of Hispania.
What are Spain and Portugal?
The year Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue
What is 1492?
The name of the famous native woman, daughter of the Powhatan chief, noted for her association with the Jamestown settlement
Hint: Think Disney
Who is Pocahontas?
(Pocahontas was much younger than depicted during the events of the Disney movie, she was actually probably 11 or 12)
Toussaint L'Ouverture helped to liberate this Caribbean nation, that shares an island with the Dominican Republic.
What is Haiti?
The most common symbol for the Day of the Dead; the calaveras de azúcar .
What are sugar skulls?
This country, made up of over 7,000 islands, is one of the most well-known Hispanic countries in Asia.
What is the Philippines?
Christopher Columbus' place of birth
What is The Republic of Genoa (modern day Italy)?
Around how many Indigenous People were in the Americas when discovered by Columbus?
A. 1 Million
B. 25 Million
C. 100 Million
D. 1 Billion
C. 100 Million
The name of the priest who's Grito de Dolores set off the Mexican War of Independence.
Who is Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla?
What is the original purpose of a jack o' lantern?
To ward off evil spirits.
The name of the Hispanic people who lived in northwest Mexico and the modern state of California?
What is Californios?
Where Columbus was trying to get to on his famous journey.
What is India?
Who are the Algonquin, Puebloan, Muscogee Creek, Haudenosaunee (Shawnee), Cherokee, and many more?
The man that liberated northern South America and has a country named after him. The George Washington of South America.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
This director is famous for films that use a unique artistic style in his dark movies.
Who is Tim Burton?
The name of the Hispanic people who lived in northern Mexico and the modern US state of Texas?
What is Tejanos?
Cristopher Columbus' reasoning for why his journey would be possible, which conflicted with most scholars' beliefs at the time.
What is that the Earth was much smaller than had been theorized?
One way that historians determined regions of Indigenous Peoples in North America.
What is shared language? What is cultural practices?
What is political systems?
The man that liberated southern South America.
______ de San _______
José de San Martín
What's the name of the leading role character in "The Nightmare Before Christmas"
Jack Skellington
What is September 15th and because it is the date that most Central American countries, Mexico, and Chile gained their independence?
This is where Columbus actually landed at the end of his famous journey.
What is the Bahamas?