I was nicknamed the Iron Horse and helped early riders travel quickly - around 20 MPH.
What is the train.
100
Name the four cardinal directions.
What is North, South, East, West
100
I was general and commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
100
This branch is led by the President.
What is the Executive Branch?
200
Built pueblos out of mud and straw
Who are the Hopi?
200
The year that Ohio became a state.
What is 1803?
200
Name the four ordinal or intermediate directions.
Northwest, Northeast, Southwest, Southeast
200
Fill in the blank: "No taxation without ______________"
What is representation?
200
This branch is led by congress and makes the laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
300
Lived in modern day Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.
Who are the Semonioles?
300
I am the Spaniard most known for my search for the fountain of youth, but I am also known for "discovering" Florida.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
300
Name three out of the four New England Colonies.
What are Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island?
300
The Stamp Act and other acts like it were levied on the colonists by Britain in order to help pay for this previous war.
What is the French and Indian War.
300
This branch is presided over by the Supreme Court and other lower federal courts, and interprets the meaning of laws.
What is Judicial Branch?
400
Lived in the Great Plains region, were nomadic, and hunted animals such as buffalo and deer.
Who are the Pawnee?
400
My name is Fernando Vasquez de Balboa and I am most known for being the first European to set eyes on this body of water.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
400
Name four out of the five Mid Atlantic Colonies.
What are New York,, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware?
400
I am the 33 year old Virginian that wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
Three word phrase describing how not one branch has complete control over the others.
What is "Checks and Balances"?
500
Having perhaps the most unique sounding name, they built long houses 100 feet in length, ate lots of fish, and lived on the Pacific coast.
Who are the Kwakiutl?
500
I am the only French explorer that you studied last year, and I explored the Saint Lawrence River and founded the city of Quebec.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
500
The total number of colonies before westward expansion began.
What is 13?
500
The battle that is considered the turning point in the war occurred here.
What is Saratoga?
500
George Washington and Barak Obama (The first and most recent presidents) as well as all presidents in between are deemed the "Commander and Chief's" meaning that they are the commanders of this.