Geography
These are images that represent something on a map
What are Symbols?
The primary motivation for European explorers can be summarized by these three words
What are gold, God, and glory?
These are the three colonial regions.
What are the New England, Middle, and Southern regions?
The 19th-century belief that the United States was divinely ordained to expand across the North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This "unsinkable" ship hit an iceberg and sunk in 1912.
What is the Titanic?
These lines circle the globe running east to west, however they are used to measure your distance north or south of the equator.
What are latitude lines?
An Italian explorer who sailed for Spain, he made four transatlantic voyages beginning in 1492 and is credited with opening the Americas to widespread European exploration
Who is Christopher Columbus?
A Quaker who founded Pennsylvania as a safe haven for members of the "Society of Friends" and other religions.
Who is William Penn?
The $15 million land deal in 1803 that effectively doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Man who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
This line separates the earth into two hemispheres, east and west.
What is the prime meridian?
Of the three motivations, this one specifically referred to the desire to spread Christianity to non-Christian peoples.
What is God?
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
This 1830 law, signed by President Andrew Jackson, authorized the removal of Native American tribes to lands west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The year the United States landed on the moon.
What is 1969?
These maps display the borders of territories, states, countries, etc.
What are political maps?
The three S's that many explorers were after.
What are silk, spices, and stones?
This is the region New York was located in.
What is the middle region?
The name given to the restricted, often undesirable tracts of land Native Americans were forced to live on by the U.S. government.
What are reservations?
Author who wrote Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night Dream.
Who is Shakespeare?
a circular diagram on maps and navigational instruments that displays the cardinal directions (North, East, South, West) and often intermediate points
What is a compass rose?
Explorer who is credited with circumnavigating (sailing around) the world for the first time.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This is the region Georgia was located in.
A journey people took towards the Pacific Northwest, travelling in carriages and suffering from disease along the way.
What is the Oregon Trail?
Ancient city buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD.
What is Pompeii?