FROM "C" TO SHINING "C"
THE FIRST MEZO-AMERICANS
NATIVE AMERICANS
WHO'S WHO?
WHAT'S WHAT?
WHERE'S WHERE?
COLONIAL MATTERS
ENLIGHTEN ME
THE POWER OF WORDS
100

THIS MAN, REPRESENTING KING FERDINAND AND QUEEN ISABELLA OF SPAIN, SAILED WEST ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN ON FOUR SEPARATE VOYAGES - 1492, 1493, 1498, AND 1502

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

100

THE AZTECS LIVED IN WHAT MODERN DAY COUNTRY?

MEXICO

100

THIS TERM FOR NATIVE AMERICANS WAS COINED BY CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, WHO THOUGHT HE HAD LANDED IN ASIA

INDIANS

100

THIS ITALIAN EXPLORER RECOGNIZED THAT THE CONTINENTS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN WERE NOT ASIA, BUT RATHER A "NEW WORLD" THEREFORE THE NAMES OF THE CONTINENTS ARE DERIVED FROM HIS NAME

AMERIGO VESPUCCI

100

THE TERM FOR A PERSON WHO WANTED TO ABOLISH SLAVERY

ABOLITIONIST


100

JACQUES CARTER WAS THE FRENCHMAN WHO EXPLORED THE GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE AND THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER IN WHAT MODERN DAY COUNTRY?

CANADA

100

ONE OF THE MIDDLE COLONIES, IT WAS FOUNDED BY WILLIAM PENN FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM TO ALL BUT ATHEISTS

PENNSYLVANIA

100

THE AUSTRIAN COMPOSER WHOSE OPERA "THE MAGIC FLUTE" SYMBOLIZED ELEMENTS OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT 

MOZART

100

THE FAMOUS DOCUMENT SIGNED BY KING JOHN IN 1215 LIMITED THE AUTHORITY OF THE MONARCHY

THE MAGNA CARTA

200

THE TERM FOR A SPANISH CONQUEROR

CONQUISTADOR

200

WELL-KNOWN FOR DEVELOPING A SOPHISTICATED CALENDAR, THIS WAS ONE OF THE EARLIEST CIVILIZATIONS ON THE YUCATAN PENINSULA

THE MAYA


200

THIS ANIMAL WAS OF SUPREME IMPORTANCE TO THE NATIVE AMERICANS OF THE GREAT PLAINS AND THE WEST, NOT ONLY AS A SOURCE OF FOOD, BUT ALSO FOR ITS HIDES WHICH WERE USED TO MAKE DWELLINGS, BLANKETS, AND CLOTHING AND ITS BONES WHICH WERE USED TO MAKE TOOLS AND IMPLEMENTS.

BUFFALO OR BISON

200

THIS EXPLORER WAS GIVEN THE MONIKER "ADMIRAL OF THE OCEAN SEA"

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

200

THIS DOCUMENT, SIGNED ABOARD ON THE SHIP BEFORE THE PILGRIMS STEPPED FOOT ON PLYMOUTH ROCK, WAS THE FIRST FORM OF SELF-GOVERNMENT IN THE COLONIES

THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT

200

THE MOJAVE, HOPI, NAVAJO, ZUNI, APACHE, AND ATAKAPA TRIBES WERE FROM THIS AREA OF NORTH AMERICA

THE SOUTHWEST

200

THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY, ESTABLISHED IN 1629 BY JOHN WINTHROP, WAS PRIMARILY FOR FREEDOM FROM RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION FOR THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE

PURITANS

200

THE MAIN EMPHASIS OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT WAS ON WHAT?

MAN'S REASON

200

THIS LEADER OF THE JAMESTOWN SETTLEMENT FAMOUSLY SAID, "HE WHO WILL NOT WORK SHALL NOT EAT."

CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH

300

THIS DENOMINATION WAS THE FIRST TO ESTABLISH CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN THE NEW WORLD

CATHOLIC CHURCH

300

THIS PEOPLE GROUP LIVED ON THE PACIFIC COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA IN MODERN DAY

INCA

300

THIS NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN BECAME AN INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN JOHN SMITH AND HER FATHER CHIEF POWATAN

POCAHONTAS

300

THIS NATIVE AMERICAN, WHO HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY CAPTURED AS A SLAVE AND TAKEN TO ENGLAND BUT THEN RETURNED TO NORTH AMERICA, BECAME A TRANSLATOR AND FRIEND TO THE PILGRIMS IN PLYMOUTH COLONY

SQUANTO

300

THIS EUROPEAN NATION ESTABLISHED SETTLEMENTS I NORTH AMERICA TO TRADE GUNS, TOOLS, AND CLOTH FOR FUR PELTS WITH THE NATIVE AMERICANS. 

FRANCE

300

THIS DUTCH SETTLEMENT AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE WAS LOCATED ON WHAT CONTINENT

AFRICA

300

THE LEADER OF PLYMOUTH COLONY

WILLIAM BRADFORD

300

BORN IN THE AGE OF REASON AND ENLIGHTENMENT, THIS WORLDVIEW ESPOUSES A BELIEF IN A GOD WHO CREATED THE WORLD BUT WHO HAS NO FURTHER INVOLVEMENT WITH IS

DEISM

300

THIS FOUNDING FATHER PENNED POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

400

THE RECIPROCAL TRADING OF PLANTS, ANIMALS, AND DISEASES BETWEEN THE AMERICAS AND EUROPE DURING THE PERIOD OF EUROPEAN EXPLORATION AND EXPANSION IS KNOWN AS WHAT?

THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE


400

THE RELIGIOUS PRACTICES OF THE AZTECS INCLUDED OFFERING HUMAN SACRIFICE TO THIS, THEIR MAIN GOD

QUETZALCOATL

400

THE TRADITIONAL DWELLING OF NATIVE AMERICANS LIVING IN THE AMERICAN NORTHEAST, WHICH WERE MADE OF WOOD, TREES, AND SAPLINGS

LONGHOUSE

400

THIS SPANISH CONQUISTADOR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CONQUERING THE AZTECS

HERNAN CORTES

400

THE TERM FOR THE JOURNEY OF AFRICAN SLAVES FROM AFRICA TO THE AMERICAS

THE MIDDLE PASSAGE

400

THE YAKIMA, CHINOOK, AND TILLAMOOK TRIBES WERE FROM THIS AREA OF NORTH AMERICA

THE NORTHWEST

400

JONATHAN EDWARDS AND GEORGE WHITEFIELD WERE PREACHERS IN THIS RELIGIOUS REVIVAL THAT SWEPT ACROSS THE BRITISH COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA 

THE GREAT AWAKENING

400

THE ARTISTIC MOVEMENT THAT COINCIDED WITH THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

ROCOCO

400

THIS FIERY SERMON BY PREACHER JONATHAN EDWARDS IGNITED THE REVIVAL KNOWN AS THE GREAT AWAKENING 

SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN AGNRY GOD

500

THIS TYPE OF VESSEL WAS A SMALL, FAST PORTUGUESE SAILING SHIP, IDEAL FOR LONG OCEAN VOYAGES

CARAVEL
500

THE MAIN CITY OF THE INCA CIVILIZATION

CUZCO

500

THE TERM FOR SOMEONE WITH ONE EUROPEAN AND ONE NATIVE AMERICAN PARENT

MESTIZO

500

HE WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO CIRCUMNAVIGATE THE EARTH BY PASSING THROUGH A STRAIT THAT WAS LATER NAMED FOR HIM

FERDINAND MAGELLAN

500

THIS RELIGIOUS GROUP WAS ALSO KNOWN AS "THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS"

QUAKERS

500
VASCO NUNEZ DE BALBOA WAS THE FIRST TO CROSS THIS LANDFORM AND THE FIRST TO REACH THE PACIFIC OCEAN

THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA

500

THE FIRST PERMANENT ENGLISH COLONY IN NORTH AMERICA ADN THE YEAR IT WAS ESTABLISHED 

JAMESTOWN 1607

500

THE GERMAN PHILOSOPHER WHO SAID, "DARE TO KNOW!" 

IMMANUEL KANT

500

THIS AUTHOR OF THE SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT GREATLY INFLUENCED THOMAS JEFFERSON

JOHN LOCKE

600

THIS ENGLISHMAN EXPLORED THE NEW ENGLAND COASTLINE OF NORTH AMERICA

JOHN CABOT

600

THE MAIN CITY OF THE AZTECS

TENOCHITITLAN

600

NAME ONE OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES OF THE PLAINS

BLACKFOOT, FLATHEAD, CROW, DAKOTA, SIOUX, CHEYENNE, PAWNEE, ARAPAHO, COMANCHE, WICHITA, IOWA, OTOE, KICKAPOO, FOX

600

HE BECAME LORD PROTECTOR OF ENGLAND AFTER CHARLES I WAS EXECUTED

OLIVER CROMWELL

600

THESE VEGETABLES ARE KNOWN AS THE "THREE SISTERS" OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN DIET

CORN, SQUASH, BEANS

600

THE AREA OF THE AFRICAN COAST WHERE EUROPEANS TRADED FOR GOLD AND OTHER PRECIOUS METALS

THE GOLD COAST

600

THIS COLONY WAS A HAVEN FOR CATHOLICS

MARYLAND

600

IN HIS TREATISE THE SOCIAL CONTRACT, THIS PHILOSOPHER TRIED TO RECONCILE INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY WITH GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY

ROUSSEAU

600

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU WROTE, "MAN IS BORN FREE, YET EVERYWHERE HE IS ____________"

IN CHAINS

700

THIS SPANIARD SEARCHED FOR 7 CITIES OF GOLD IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST 

FRANCISCO VASQUEZ DE CORONADO

700

THIS CITADEL BUILT BY THE INCA IN THE 15TH CENTURY AND KNOWN AS "LOST CITY OF THE INCAS" HAS BEEN NAMED A UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE AND ATTRACTS THOUSANDS OF VISITORS EACH YEAR

MACHU PICCHU

700

THE LEADER OF THE WAMPANOAG TRIBES WHO KEPT THE PEACE WITH AND HELPED THE PILGRIMS AVOID STARVATION

MASSASOIT

700

THIS DYNAMIC DUO EXPLORED THE GREAT LAKES AND THEN WENT SOUTH ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER

FATHER JACQUES MARQUETTE AND LOUIS JOLIET
700
WHICH THREE GROUPS OF PEOPLE WERE INVOLVED IN THE TRIANGULAR SLAVE TRADE?

PLANTATION OWNERS, AFRICAN CHIEFS & SLAVE TRADERS, AND EUROPEAN MERCHANTS

700

KNOWN AS THE "LOST COLONY" ALL THE COLONISTS OF THIS SETTLEMENT FOUNDED BY SIR WALTER RALEIGH IN 1585 MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED

ROANOKE

700

THIS COLONY FOUNDED BY THE DUTCH WEST INDIA COMPANY AND SETTLED LARGELY BY IMMIGRANTS FROM THE NETHERLANDS, FINLAND, GERMANY, SWEDEN, AND ENGLAND, WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED NEW NETHERLAND

NEW YORK


700

THIS FRENCH PHILOSOPHER WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FIGURES OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT. HE WAS HIGHLY CRITICAL OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE MONARCHY. HIS WRITINGS INCLUDE CANDIDE.

VOLTAIRE

700

THIS FRENCH WOMAN CAN BE SEEN AS THE FIRST FEMINIST. SHE SAID THAT MEN SHOULD "SNAP THE CHAINS" AND LET WOMEN ENGAGE IN RATIONAL THOUGHT WITH MEN SO THAT THEY COULD BECOME EVEN BETTER WIVES, MOTHERS, AND CITIZENS 

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT