Geography-US & Canada
US History
World History
8th Grade
6th Grade
100
The cause of Hawaii's volcanoes.
What are hot spots in the earth's mantle?
100
Currency based on the price of gold.
What is the gold standard?
100
Describe a polis of ancient Greece.
What is a politically independent unit that included a city and surrounding land?
100
The date of the "shot heard around the world."
What is April 19, 1775?
100
The peoples of the far north (in North America).
Who are the Inuit?
200
Gross Domestic Product of the United States compared to other nations.
What is the highest GDP in the world?
200
George Westinghouse's invention that impacted nearly everyone.
What is delivery of electricity?
200
These people could vote in 5th century B.C. Athens.
Who are all male citizens regardless of wealth?
200
The place that Washington's army wintered and trained during the winter of 1776-77.
What is Valley Forge?
200
The Mesoamerican civilization conquered by Hernán Cortés.
Who are the Aztec?
300
Form of government practiced by the United States and Canada.
What is democracy?
300
definition of nativism.
What is the term that describes the belief that current inhabitants are better than incoming immigrants?
300
Period of cultural diffusion followed this Greek leader's conquest of the Persian Empire
Who is Alexander the Great?
300
The date of the first reading of the Declaration of Independence.
What is July 4, 1776?
300
These peoples are the oldest of the Mesoamerican civilizations.
Who are the Olmec?
400
Source of water for the Rio Grande River.
What is melting snow in the Rocky Mountains?
400
The year the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed
What is 1882?
400
The reason Muhammad left Mecca to live in Medina.
What is he feared for his life?
400
The Act that the British parliament passed that required all printed materials to bear a mark (state the year also).
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
400
This South American civilization was the largest, was located in modern day Peru, and reigned between the early 1200s and the 1530s.
Who are the Inca?
500
Reason for US factory moves to Mexico.
What is cheap labor?
500
The president under which the 16th and 17th Amendments to the US Constitution were passed.
Who is William Taft?
500
This major religion was born at the height of the Roman Empire.
What is Christianity?
500
The important events of March 1770 and December 1773 that occurred in Boston and indicated colonial discontent with the British parliament.
What is the Boston Massacre (1770) and the Boston Tea Party (1773)?
500
This Mesoamerican civilization is known for having the only fully developed writing system (hieroglyphics) during the pre-columbian period.
Who are the Maya?
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