Civics & Gov't
These are the three branches of government.
What are the Legislative Branch, Executive Branch, and Judicial Branch?
This is the number of contiguous states the USA.
What is 48?
Before it was New York City, this was its original name given by the Dutch.
What is New Amsterdam?
What are push factors?
This is what we call the black seating option with the pillow at the front of the room.
What is the comfy chair?
This is the fraction of votes needed to override a president's veto in the House and Senate.
What is 2/3's?
This is the number of territorie the USA has.
What are four? (US Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico)
This is the subtribe of the Lenape who lived on the island of Manhattan (Manahatta).
Who are the Munsee?
These were the two historic ports of entry into New York City.
What are Castle Garden and Ellis Island?
This is the state Danny is from.
What is New Hampshire?
This is the number of US Presidents impeached.
What is three? (Johnson, Clinton, Trump)
These four states meet to form what is known as "The Four Corners".
What are Utah, Coloado, New Mexico, and Arizona?
Name one of the four ways the Lenape lost their land.
What is by diseases, land lost through negotiated deals, land lost through war and other violence, or land lost and/or taken away through cheating and lying by the colonists.
This is the name of the fungus that killed millions of potato crops in Ireland.
What is blight?
Without looking, this is why the cop doesn't arrest the theif and instead helps him.
What is "Commas, lady!!"
This is the number of electoral votes needed to win the Electoral College and become elected president.
What is 270?
Name one of the two states to have its name in its capital city.
What are Oklahoma (Oklahoma City) or Indiana (Indianapolis)?
This is the name of the museum we went to on a field trip that showed Native New York's story and more.
What is the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian?
This is the city where Fiona and her family settle into after arriving in the United States.
What is Chicago?
These are the 4 R's of Paraphrasing.
What are realize, recheck, reword, and reorder?
This is what the Supreme Court decides.
These 13 states were originally known as the 13 original colonies.
What are New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia?
He was the Dutch governor who had the goal to gain control over as much land as possible make Manhattan island a successful Dutch colony.
Who is William Kieft?
This is what single men from China who illegally immigrated to the United States by purchasing documentation which stated that they were blood relatives to Chinese people who had already received U.S. citizenship were called.
What are Paper Sons?
Who are Claire or Abigail?