Geography
The 5 world oceans.
What are theAtlantic, Southern, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic oceans
This was the primary home of the Lakota and Cheyenne.
What is the Great Plains?
This country sponsored Christopher Columbus’s voyage in 1492.
What is Spain?
This civil rights leader gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
This woman was the leading force behind the women’s suffrage movement and appeared on the U.S. dollar coin.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This state is home to the Grand Canyon.
What is Arizona?
The Iroquois Confederacy, also called the Haudenosaunee, originally consisted of this many nations.
What is five? (Later, the Tuscarora joined, making it six.)
Explorers during the Age of Exploration were searching for new trade routes to this continent.
What is Asia?
She was the first Black woman to travel to space in 1992.
Who is Mae Jemison?
In 1932, this pioneering aviator became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
This is the longest river in the United States.
What is the Missouri River?
In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in this region, believing he had reached Asia.
What are the Caribbean islands? (or What is the Bahamas?, as many believe he first landed there.)
This Italian explorer’s name was used to refer to the newly discovered continents of North and South America.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This historian and author is known as the "Father of Black History" and helped establish Black History Month.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
This labor leader and activist co-founded the National Farm Workers Association alongside César Chávez.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
This famous mountain range runs along the eastern United States from Georgia to Maine.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This Indigenous group, who lived in the Caribbean, suffered greatly due to Columbus’s arrival and the forced labor system imposed by the Spanish.
Who are the Taíno?
This Portuguese explorer was the first to sail around the southern tip of Africa, opening a sea route to Asia.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
In 2008, this person became the first Black president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
She became the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981.
Who is Sandra Day O’Connor?
This state borders eight other states, the most of any in the U.S.
What is Tennessee?
The 1830 Indian Removal Act led to this forced migration of thousands of Cherokee people from their homelands.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This treaty, signed in 1494, divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This self-made millionaire and entrepreneur became one of the first Black women in the U.S. to build a business empire with her hair care company in the early 1900s.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
This 18th-century poet was the first published African American woman in the U.S.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?