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Native Americans
Relating to the Bible
Famous People
Landmarks
Geography
100
Used by some Native American Tribes as money
What are shells?
100
The original copy of this book is filled with quotations from the Bible. It was said of the author "He taught millions to read, and not one to sin." Name the book, and it's author.
What is the Dictionary (1812) and Noah Webster.
100
_______ was the First Governor of Plymouth
Who is John Carver?
100
This was the product South Carolina sold to England that was the major reason for their becoming so wealthy.
What is the rice that was sold to England?
100
These are the Atlantic to the east and the Pacific to the west
What are the 2 largest oceans in the world that border America?
200
An Indian Princess whose brief but influential life has made her one of the most famous people in American History.
Who is Pocahontas?
200
God created the world so that each part of creation depends on other parts. He also designed living creatures that could live in specific individual ecosystems. What was the name of the magnificent caves we learned about this semester?
What is Mammoth Caves?
200
The Father of Pocahontas
Who is Chief Powhatan?
200
This is the site that brought an end to the Revolutionary War.
What is Yorktown?
200
This was the first permanent English settlement in America
What is Jamestown?
300
It took 12 years for Sequoyah to develop this syllabary
What is the Cherokee Syllabary?
300
This man was a founding father of our country even though he never became president. He had an utmost faith in honoring God. He was chosen by George Washington as the First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and after retiring from politics, he became the second president of the American Bible Society.
Who is John Jay?
300
This person moved to London where he worked in a Printing Press.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
300
The home state of John Quincy Adams
What is Massachusetts?
300
Mountain men traded these and most of them became hats.
What are beaver pelts?
400
A Tribe of the Great Plains. (there are many, just name one)
What is the Kanza (or Kaw), the Oto and Missouri, the Yankton or Teton Sioux, the Omaha, the Ponca, the Arikara, the Mandan, the Hidatsa, the Cheyenne, Plains Cree & Assinibione, the Blackfeet the Atsina or the Crow.
400
This was the first message on the Telegraph line from Baltimore to Washington. (Clue: it is 4 words)
What is the words "What Hath God Wrought?"
400
Williamsburg was named after this King of this country.
Who is King William III of England.
400
A famous sad place in Texas.
What is the Alamo?
400
This is the belief that America should expand all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Manifest Destiny?
500
Lots of Native American people lived around the Great Lakes. What are the names of those lakes?
What are Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario.
500
John 16:33 says, "These thing I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world." This poet experienced great personal grief upon the loss of both of his wives.
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
500
Called the Father of the Consitution
Who is James Madison?
500
George Washington hired masons to construct this landmark. Clue: Most of these are used to warn ships. Clue#2: it is 3 words.
What is the Portland Head Light?
500
The first railroads went to this town where the Pony Express then picked up and took the mail to the rest of the way to here. (looking for 2 answers, both are cities in states)
What is significant about the towns of St Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California?