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History
Mix it up!
100
Value which attracted immigrants to the colonies
What is freedom
100
Name of child who is to take over Mr. Bergson's farm after his death in "O! Pioneer"
What is Alexandra
100
Present American president
Who is Barack Obama
100
Who first settled in the land that would become the US?
Who are "British colonists"
100
Americans' love of their country
What is patriotism
200
What has the United States been viewed as a land of? Hint: A place where there are circumstances that make you able to do many things.
What is "(land of) opportunity"
200
Author whose name you think has French pronunciation (but it doesn't) and who wrote "Souls of Black Folk"
Who is W.E. Dubois
200
The belief that anyone - no matter back ground - can be successful in the US
What is The American Dream
200
What year did the British colonists declare independence
What is 1776
200
Poetic genre with 14 lines and a set meter
What is a sonnet
300
The principle that people of different races, religions, and political beliefs can live together peacefully in the same society is known as what?
What is cultural pluralism
300
Novel that exposed the cruel nature of slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
300
Speaker at Gettysburg
Who is Abraham Lincoln
300
Issue which threatened the existence of a united country, a United States of America?
What is "slavery"
300
Person who moves to the US to live and work
What is an immigrant
400
The fact that Americans move many times during a life time (reflecting their belief in 'new beginnings')
What is "mobility"
400
Poetic genre that "The New Colossus" is written in
What is a sonnet
400
a rhetorical or literary device in which a writer compares or contrasts two people, places, things, or ideas using the words 'like' or 'as'
What is a comparison
400
The Doctrine that segregated the South for decades.
What is Seperate but Equal
400
idea that America has limitless wealth and natural resources
What is psychology of abundance
500
The ability to do and decide things for yourself without depending on others
What is individualism (or self-reliance)
500
(In the Declaration of Independence) Three words that come immediately after this: "... life, liberty and the
What is "pursuit of happiness"
500
A figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object.
What is a metaphor
500
Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks are spokespeople for this...
What is Civil Rights Movement
500
Conviction that a child should 'do better' than their parents, i.e. earn more, have a better education, a bigger house, etc.
What is progress
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