Exploration
The Viking who came to America around AD 1000.
Who is Leif Erikson?
The river that flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
Archaeologists believe early Americans came from this place.
What is Russia? or, What is the Bering Strait?
The first permanent English settlement in America.
What is Jamestown?
The first book printed in America.
What is the Bay Psalm Book?
The Italian sailor who reached the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The mountain range that lies a few hundred miles from the Atlantic Coast.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
The last of the Mound Builder groups.
What are the Mississippians?
The first English child born in America.
What is Virginia Dare?
This early American schoolbook included the Lord’s Prayer, Ten Commandments, and alphabet.
What is the New England Primer?
The first Spanish explorer to reach Florida.
Who is Ponce de Leon?
The largest estuary in America.
What is Chesapeake Bay?
The home that is most like an apartment house.
What is a pueblo?
The colony founded by Puritans seeking religious freedom.
What is Massachusetts Bay?
The man who believed the church should not control government.
Who is Roger Williams?
The Spaniard who explored the Southeast, including parts of Georgia.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
The five lakes that hold about 20% of the world’s fresh water.
What are the Great Lakes?
The crops known as the “Three Sisters.”
What are corn, beans, and squash?
The colony founded by Catholics to freely worship.
What is Maryland?
Colonists condemned this because they were not allowed a say in British laws.
What is taxation without representation?
The oldest European city in America, founded by the Spanish.
What is St. Augustine?
The Northeast region named by John Smith.
What is New England?
The Northwest tribes used these carved poles to tell stories and record history.
What are totem poles?
The man who explored New York Bay and the river now named after him.
Who is Henry Hudson?
The man chosen as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?