Where and What Am I?
Early American History
People
Words to Know
Potpouri
100
I am know as the city of Brotherly Love and the home of Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell.
What is Philedelphia?
100
The time in which Eurpeans began to settle in North America.
What is the 1500s?
100
This is the official language of the United States.
What is NONE; the United States does not have an official language.
100
Having the ability to speak two languages.
What is being bilingual?
100
These are the four men's faces on Mount Rushmore.
Who are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt?
200
I was created by the Colorado River over a six million year time period.
What is the Grand Canyon?
200
The tribe in the southwestern United States who developed a complex irrigation system.
Who are the Anasazi?
200
This is the number of Native Americans living in the United States today.
What is two million?
200
A large farm that grows mainly one crop to sell.
What is a plantation?
200
During the Civil War, more soldiers died of this than gunshots and fighting.
What is disease?
300
I am the war memorial that is a long, black stone wall with the names of the fallen soldiers etched on me.
What is the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D.C.?
300
DAILY DOUBLE! The country that the United States bought Alaska from in 1867.
What is Russia?
300
Along with Protestant Christians, this is the most common religious group in the United States today.
What are Roman Catholics?
300
This is a territory controlled by people from a foreign land.
What is a colony?
300
The state in which the first kindergarten was started in 1856.
What is Wisconsin?
400
I am the city where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
What is Memphis?
400
The country, in addition to France, that settled much of the land west of the British colonies.
What is Spain?
400
This is the approximate thirty year period when immigration was particularily heavy in the United States.
What is the 1890's to the 1920's?
400
This is the industry that produces cloth products.
What is textile?
400
Nothing.
What does the "S" stand for in Harry S. Truman?
500
I am the National Park that is home to one of the world's richest fossil beds and where the once nearly extinct buffalo roam freely today.
What are the Badlands in South Dakota?
500
DAILY DOUBLE! The ammendment to the Constitution that ended slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Ammendment?
500
This is the percentage of Americans who are descended from African slaves.
What is 13%?
500
This means "formally added to" like Hawaii was to the United States in 1898.
What is annexed?
500
In this state, it is illegal to bathe two babies at once.
What is California?
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