Famous People
The inventor of the electric light bulb
Who is Thomas Edison
An early family member of yours is your....
What is an ancestor
A place that is ruled by another country is called...
(there were 13 original ones)
What is a colony
The leader of the executive branch of government is....
Who is the President of the United States
Name the longest river in the United States....
What is the Mississippi River
A preacher who worked for the fair treatment for ALL Americans in the 1950s...
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
Something found in nature that people can use....
What is a natural resource
This war took place between Britain and the colonist and it resulted in America's freedom...
What is the American Revolutionary War
This group of people make laws for our country. It consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives.....
What is Congress
The earth has 7 of these large areas of land....
What are continents
A Cherokee Indian who developed an alphabet...
Who is Sequoyah
A branch of the federal government whose main job is to see that laws are carried out and are fair and just.....
What is the judicial branch of government
This place was where immigrants were checked in to the United States as they arrived in New York's Harbor...
What is Ellis Island
These men led an expedition across the western part of our country. They were helped by Sacajawea.
Who is Meriweather Lewis and William Clark
The 50th state to join the United States....
What was Hawaii
A woman who worked to get equal rights for women to vote.....
Who is Susan B. Anthony
Half of the earth....
What is a hemisphere
This event prompted the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. Name the event and the woman involved.
What was the Bus Boycott.
Who was Rosa Parks.
This man invented the first steel plow in 1837.
Who is John Deere
What is a scale
This man was a Union general during the Civil War who later became a United States president....
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
This set of imaginary lines on a globe or map that run from east to west are called....
What are lines of latitude
This era resulted in new laws that were made to protect against child labor....
What was the Industrial Revolution
This president served FOUR terms. He led the way through the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt
These imaginary lines on a map or globe run from north to south. ..
What are lines of longitude