American History
William Penn was the inspiration for this colony which became a state.
What is Pennsylvania?
The Puritans left this country in search of religious freedom
What is England?
The country to the south of the United States of America
What is Mexico?
Another name for the Medieval plague.
What is the Black Death?
The Native American empire that he conquered.
Who were the Incas?
In Salem, Massachusetts, the people began accusing each other of this.
What is witchcraft?
This Native American leader tried to unite the tribes in Massachusetts to fight off the English colonists
Who was King Philip (or Pometacom)?
The largest country in South America
What is Brazil?
This leader of the Mongolian empire had a different name as a child.
Who was Genghis Khan?
Pizarro was influenced by this man's conquest of the Aztecs in Mexico
Who was Cortes?
Blackbeard was famous for being this
What is a pirate?
The Puritans left this country because they were worried their children were forgetting their ways
What is Holland (or the Netherlands)?
The Central American country that touches South America
What is Panama?
This was the document that the king of England was forced to sign which limited his power.
What was the Magna Carta?
The number of men Pizarro had when he conquered the Incas
What are 180?
The Acadians in Canada were removed from their home by this person
Who was the English king?
The Native Americans who helped the Pilgrims (and where we get Thanksgiving from)
Who were the Wampanoags?
The large island that lies 90 miles to the south of Florida
What is Cuba?
The name of the large religious monument from the Khmer Empire in Cambodia.
What is Angkor Wat?
The name of the emperor at the time that Pizarro arrived.
Who was Atauhualpa?
Roger Williams, the Quaker who shocked the Puritans with his religious freedom, founded this colony which became the capital of Rhode Island.
What is Providence?
The Ancestral Puebloans built these in the rocks of the American Southwest.
What are cliff dwellings?
The island in the Caribbean that is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States
Great Zimbabwe this in southeast Africa 800 years ago.
What is a wealthy trading city?
This famous conquistador of the Mississippi River and friend of Atahualpa was tricked into leaving so Pizarro could accuse the emperor
Who was Hernando de Soto?