Literature
Freedom Train is a biography about this person.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
He was the Confederate general who surrendered in Appomattox, Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
What is a dictator?
Americans tried to push out this Cuban leader from power during the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1959.
Who is Dictator Fidel Castro?
Louis Pasteur invented this process named after him.
What is pasteurization?
Cumba stayed with this person when he came to the United States.
Who is Prima Benita?
This state was rapidly populated due to the Gold Rush.
What is the state of California?
Cumba’s was this age when he came to America.
What is 12 years old?
This was the first person in space.
Who is Yuri Gargarin?
This was the biblical code name Harriet Tubman was referred as.
Who is Moses?
He was the Union's commanding army general who accepted the surrender of General Lee.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
When someone owns another person or when people are forced to work and aren't paid is called this.
What is slavery?
This President gave a now famous 2 minute speech called the Gettysburg Address.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What is the Red Cross?
He is the Cumba's younger brother.
Who is Pepito?
What is WWII?
This was Cumba’s reported age on his ticket to the US.
What is 11 years old?
The US first sent people to space under this project name.
What is Project Mercury?
This is the year was the Boxcar Children was written.
What is 1924?
This battle has the largest number of casualties and was the turning point in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
A person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution like slavery is called this.
What is an abolitionist?
This President of the the United States was elected 4 times to office during World War II.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt? (FDR)
This was the year the declaration of independence was
written.
What is 1776?
This breakfast food was hated by Cumba.
What is oatmeal?
This journey of 3,000 miles took five sickening months at sea.
What is the journey across the Atlantic from England to Jamestown?
This is Cumba's favorite breakfast food in Cuba.
What is Guava Pastries with Coffee?
The first animal in space was this type of animal.
What is a dog?
This was the main characters name in the
Winged Watchman.
Who is Yoris?
This state was the first to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
A war between citizens of the same country is called this.
What is a civil war?
Who is James Buchanan?
This is the first industrial building made in
America.
What is Slater mill?
Cumba was this many years old in the book Cuba in My Pocket.
What is 12 years old?
The American flag was planted in the Sea of Tranquility on the moon by these astronauts.
Who are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin?
This is Cumba's friend who he played AFDF with in Cuba and reunited with in Key Largo.
Who is Serapio?
This was the first satellite sent into orbit.
What is Sputnik?
This secretive railroad with no trains is called this.
The freeing of someone from slavery is called this.
What is emancipation?
This type of book is written about a person.
What is a biography?
He was the president of the United States during the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Who is President John F. Kennedy?
Who is President Abraham Lincoln?
Cumba usually has this in his pocket.
What is a domino called "caja de muerto"?
This battle on Jun 17, 1775 proved that inexperienced American Militia was capable of standing up the Regular British Army.
What was the Battle of Bunker Hill?
Cumba used these types of books to learn English.
What are baby books?
This US president vowed to to put men on the moon.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This was the first literature book we read.
What is A Lion to Guard us?
This revolt caused the South to outlaw the teaching of blacks to read.
What is the Nate Turner's revolt?
To have an opinion -positive or negative - before knowledge of the person is called this.
What is prejudice?
Who is George Washington?
This is the secret code name used during WWII.
What is the Navajo code?
Pepito like to dress up as this.
What is an American Cowboy?
In the 18th century, this apostle of California founded nine missions in the Spanish territory.
Who is Saint Junipero Serra?
This is the group that Cumba’s parents wanted him to avoid joining.
What is the Young Rebels?
Who is Buzz Aldrin?
This was the third literature book we read.
What is By the Great Horn spoon?
This amendment ended slavery in all of United States of America.
What is the 13th amendment?
This political theory practiced in the Soviet Union and Cuba, advocates class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
What is communism?
He was the US President during WWI.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This was the first colony to become a state.
What is Kentucky?
Cumba learned to play this to be better Cuban ambassador.
What is baseball?
This land was purchased from the French that doubled the size of America.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Cumba missed this most about Cuba.
What is his familia (family)?
He was the 1st American to go into space.
Who is Alan Shepherd?