AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM
OCEAN VOYAGES
WITCHCRAFT
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
POTPOURRI
100

SOME AMERICAN PROTESTANTS WERE AFRAID OF ELECTING THESE PEOPLE TO OFFICE, WHO THEY THOUGHT WOULD TAKE ORDERS FROM THE VATICAN.

WHAT ARE CATHOLICS?

100

WHEN CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS CROSSED THE ATLANTIC OCEAN IN 1492, HE BELIEVED HE HAD LANDED IN THIS COUNTRY.

WHAT IS INDIA?

100

IN 1692, PEOPLE IN THIS MASSACHUSETTS TOWN CAME TO BELIEVE THERE WERE WITCHES AMONG THEM.

WHAT IS SALEM?

100

THIS FOUNDING FATHER LED THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMY TO VICTORY AND BECAME THE UNITED STATES’ FIRST PRESIDENT.

WHO IS GEORGE WASHINGTON?

100

THIS ASTRONOMER WAS THE FIRST TO OBSERVE MOONS ORBITING JUPITER.

WHO IS GALILEO GALILEI?

200

CHRISTIANS WHO BELIEVE ONE SHOULD BE BAPTIZED AS AN ADULT ARE CALLED THIS.

WHAT ARE BAPTISTS?

200

THIS PORTUGUESE EXPLORER LED THE FIRST EXPEDITION TO CIRCUMNAVIGATE THE GLOBE.

WHO IS FERDINAND MAGELLAN?

200

MANY PEOPLE ACCUSED OF WITCHCRAFT WERE SENTENCED IN COURT TO THIS PUNISHMENT FROM WHICH THERE WAS NO RETURN.

WHAT IS DEATH?

200

AMERICAN COLONISTS WERE UPSET THAT THEY HAD TO PAY THESE TO THE BRITISH, EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD NO REPRESENTATIVES IN PARLIAMENT.

WHAT ARE TAXES?

200

THIS IS THE BELIEF THAT SOME RACES ARE SUPERIOR TO OTHERS.

WHAT IS RACISM?

300

AMERICA HAS MORE PROTESTANTS THAN AUSTRIA DOES BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HAVE THIS.

WHAT IS THE COUNTER REFORMATION?

300

THIS PORTUGUESE MARINER WAS THE FIRST TO ROUND THE SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA.

WHO IS BARTOLOMEU DIAS?

300

A BEWITCHED VICTIM MIGHT EXPERIENCE THIS, CAUSING THEM TO LOSE CONTROL OF THEIR MOVEMENTS.

WHAT IS A FIT?

300

BRITISH SOLDIERS KILLED PROTESTORS IN A "BLOODY MASSACRE" IN THIS COLONIAL CITY.

WHAT IS BOSTON?

300

ON APRIL 15, 1912, THIS PASSENGER SHIP SANK EN ROUTE TO AMERICA AFTER STRIKING AN ICEBERG.

WHAT IS THE TITANIC?

400
HALF OF THE PEOPLE IN UTAH FOLLOW THIS RELIGION, FOUNDED BY JOSEPH SMITH IN THE 1820S.

WHAT IS MORMONISM?

400

THIS PORTUGUESE NOBLEMAN WAS THE FIRST EUROPEAN TO REACH INDIA BY SEA.

WHO IS VASCO DE GAMA?

400

THE FIRST PEOPLE IN SALEM TO BE ACCUSED OF WITCHCRAFT WERE THIS, A WORD FOR SOMEONE WITH FEW SOCIAL CONNECTIONS CAST OUT FROM SOCIETY.

WHAT IS AN OUTCAST?

400

THE THIRTEEN AMERICAN COLONIES SENT REPRESENTATIVES TO A MEETING CALLED THIS TO OPPOSE THE BRITISH.

WHAT IS A CONGRESS?

400
THE PRACTICE OF SEPARATING PEOPLE BY RACE, WHICH WAS LAW IN SUCH COUNTRIES AS THE UNITED STATES AND SOUTH AFRICA.

WHAT IS SEGREGATION?

500

RELIGIOUS LEADERS WHO TRAVELLED THE COUNTRY GIVING SERMONS WERE CALLED THIS.

WHAT ARE PREACHERS?

500

COLUMBUS’S 1492 EXPEDITION CONSISTED OF THESE THREE SHIPS.

WHAT ARE THE NINA, THE PINTA, AND THE SANTA MARIA?

500

THE WITCH PANIC IN SALEM BEGAN WITH TITUBA, A SLAVE FROM THIS GROUP OF ISLANDS IN THE CARIBBEAN.

WHAT ARE THE WEST INDIES?

500

THIS FOUNDING FATHER WROTE THE AMERICAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND APPEARS ON THE FRONT OF THE $2 BILL.

WHO IS THOMAS JEFFERSON?

500

THIS TYPE OF HISTORICAL FICTION ASKS THE QUESTION, WHAT IF?

WHAT IS ALTERNATE HISTORY?