Columbus Day
The song lyric starts, "In (this year)
Columbus sailed the ocean blue."
What is 1492?
In 2021, became the first U.S. president to recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day officially.
Who is President Biden?
The Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria
What were the names of the 3 ship used by Columbus to "discover" America?
Columbus came upon indigenous people that he labeled this.
What is Indians?
Believing that they landed in India the indigenous people were named this.
What are Indians?
The monarchs of Spain Ferdinand and Isabella did this for Columbus.
What is finance his voyage west across the Atlantic Ocean?
The second Monday in October as a day to honor these peoples', their “resilience and strength”.
What are Native Americans?
Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
What were the next spots for Columbus after the Bahamas?
These people who weren’t sold into slavery were forced to look for gold in mines and work on plantations.
Who were the Taino or Indigenous people?
Smallpox, measles and influenza
What are the diseases that decimated the Tainos?
On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Spain to find this.
What is an all-water route to Asia?
Although many Indigenous People credit him to many misdeeds and atrocities Columbus was as this type of Christian
?
What is Catholic?
The son of a wool merchant, is believed to have been born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Minnesota, Alaska, Vermont and Oregon – have already replaced this day with Indigenous People’s Day.
What is Columbus Day?
Thousands of Taino “Indians” were shipped to Spain to be sold as this.
What are slaves?
The anniversary of his landing in what would eventually be known as the Americas was first formally celebrated 300 years later, in 1792, by the Columbian Order (Society of St. Tammany) in the most populated city in the United States.
What is New York City?
All of Southeastern Pennsylvania and South Jersey was inhabited by these Indigenous people, that of the Lenape people.
Who were the Lenape, their English name was the “Delaware” Tribe?
Leif Erikson was a Viking and the 1st European to do this.
What is land on the North American continent?
Indigenous peoples first proposed the idea at a United Nations conference in this year in the 70's to address discrimination.
What is 1977?
90% of the native populations died and was deadlier than the Black Death was in medieval Europe due to their arrival.
Who are the Europeans and African settlers?
In 1937, this longest serving President proclaimed Columbus Day a national holiday.
Who is President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
There were between 5 million and 15 million of these people living in North America in 1492. By the late 1800s, there were fewer than 238,000 left.
Who were Indigenous people?
These three subjects needed by any successful sailor at the time.
What is astronomy, geography, and history?
Indigenous peoples populated the land now called the United States for more than this many years before the arrival of Christopher Columbus.
What is 15,000 years?
In the Bahamas Guanahani later named San Salvador.
Where did Columbus 1st land in the "New World"?