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Discovering USA
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100
This is the day we celebrate our country's independence.
What is July 4th?
100
What were the first people who came over from England to the USA called? Hint: they ate with the Native Americans at Thanksgiving
What is the pilgrims?
100
The first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
100
What year did the War of 1812 occur?
What is 1812?
100
A president who was very honest and known as "Honest Abe"
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
The city where Congress met about writing the Declaration of Independence. New York Washington, D.C. Philadelphia
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
200
The Italian explorer who discovered the USA as the first European.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
The first people to make it to the Pacific Ocean (with the help of Sacajawea)
Who are Lewis and Clark?
200
In the Civil war, did the Northern or the Southern states want to keep slaves?
What is Southern?
200
Who was the person who made the "I have a dream" speech?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
300
Explain in your own words what independence means
What is freedom from the control of others, etc.
300
Name the three ships that the pilgrims took to America.
What is the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
300
Our first Black president.
Who is Barack Obama?
300
What country did US have a war with to decide the boundary of Texas? Hint: They are the country south of the US
What is Mexico?
300
The leader of Germany during world war one, the leader of the Nazis during the Holocaust?
Who is Adolf Hitler?
400
This war was the one in which we fought the British for our independence? Civil War Revolutionary War Cold War
What is the Revolutionary War?
400
Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in... 1892 1392 1492 1992
What is 1492?
400
The first woman to fly a plane across the Atlantic Ocean alone.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
400
The war that included many of the countries in the world and started because Germany was trying to take over the rest of the world?
What is World War I?
400
The lady that would not give up her seat to a white person (Hint: she has a sign in the library)
Who is Rosa Parks?
500
He wrote most of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
The first group of people from Europe to have discovered the United States? English Vikings Romans
Who are the Vikings?
500
These brothers were the first to fly a airplane.
Who were Orville and Wilber Wright?
500
Name 2 wars that haven't already been named.
500
Name 4 Presidents of the United States