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Columbus & Trade
Explorers
Colonies and Native Americans
Important Documents
Founding Fathers
100
The term meaning a shortage of goods or resources.
What is scarcity?
100
The first European explorer to explore the West Coast.
Who is Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo?
100
This group of people taught the pilgrims to fish, hunt, and plant
Who are the Wampanoag Indians?
100
The number of amendments in the Bill of Rights.
What is ten?
100
The first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
200
The year that Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain.
What is 1492?
200
The area on the West Coast Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovered.
What is San Diego?
200
The pilgrims wanted to leave England for this reason.
What is for freedom of religion and choice?
200
This two-word, alliterative phrase refers to the group of people who wrote the U.S. Constitution.
What is "Founding Fathers?"
200
This founding father invented the bifocal.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
300
Where Christopher Columbus landed in the New World.
What is the Carribbean in the Bahamas?
300
The country in which Samuel de Champlain was born.
What is France?
300
This term refers to the houses in which the Wampanoag Indians lived.
What is "wetus" (or "wigwams")?
300
The United States gained its independence from this country in 1776.
What is England?
300
This founding father signed the Alien and Sedition Acts into law.
Who is John Adams?
400
A road or waterway used to travel where people buy, sell, or exchange goods.
What is a trade route?
400
The province in Canada that was founded by Samuel de Champlain.
What is Quebec?
400
The meaning of the word "Wampanoag."
What is "People of the First Light?"
400
The nearby city in which the Declaration of Independence was written.
What is Philadelphia?
400
Benjamin Franklin was a delegate at this convention.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
500
Explorers hoped to find this valuable resource along their sea routes.
What is gold?
500
The name of the sea route that many explorers were trying to find.
What is the Northwest Passage?
500
One of three Native American tribes that Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo encountered on the West Coast.
Who are the Chumash, Kumeyaay, or Miwok tribes?
500
This founding father was the main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
The name of the newspaper the Benjamin Franklin published.
What is the Pennsylvania Gazette?