4th Grade History
In what year did Christopher Columbus sailed his first expedition to the Americas?
What was 1492?
This is where the world's first civilizations are believed to have formed.
What is Mesopotamia? (The Fertile Crescent)
In 1607, this town was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown
She was the wife of John Rolfe and daughter of Chief Powhatan, but Walt-Disney portray her as the romantic indigenous to the European sailor John Smith.
Who is Pocahontas?
Who was the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Who was the 16th President of the United States of America?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Where did the Indigenous people lived for thousands of years?
What is the Americas?
This is the system that divides powers between the states and the government. What's the name of this system?
What is Federal System?
This were those who remained loyal to Britain and opposed war for independence.
What is a Loyalist?
What was the set of laws in the United States that made it legal for places to be racially segregated.
What is Jim Crow Laws?
In 1620, this ship set sail from England with about 100 men, women, and children on board. What's the name of this ship?
What is the Mayflower?
In what year was the first war between the American colonies and Britain?
What is 1775?
Where did the Olympic Games originate?
What is Greece?
He is the hero of the War of 1812 and also became POTUS in 1824.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Where was “Black Wall Street” located?
What is Tulsa Oklahoma?
The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the United States from which country?
What is France?
When was the United States Declaration of Independence written?
What is July 4, 1776?
In 1800, who were the two presidential candidates that ran for ran for office in that year election?
Who are John Adams & Thomas Jefferson
In which town was Jesus born?
What is Bethlehem?
Who was the teenager known as the first African American to refuse to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama before Rosa Parks’ refusal?
Who is Claudette Colvin?
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What was the economic boom between the world wars called?
What was the Roaring Twenties?
She claimed God had called her to travel through the United States and preach the truth about slavery and women's rights. Who is this woman?
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This amendment freed African Americans from slavery.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
Which inventor called himself the “Black Edison” and came up with the modern three-signal traffic light and an early version of a gas mask?
Who is Garret Morgan?