The Grand Coulee Dam deprived those Indian people living north of it of this essential nutrient.
What were salmon?
100
This major river forms the border between Mexico and Texas.
What is the Rio Grande?
100
The Congress consists of these two legislative bodies.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
100
This is the introduction to the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
100
A wily welcoming ostrich went wild in her wandering. Identify the literary device most prominent in that sentence.
What is alliteration?
200
Before 1800, the United States of America extended west to this natural border and did not extend beyond it.
What was the Mississippi River?
200
To spawn, salmon swim out of the Pacific Ocean to spawn in this river in Washington State, swimming against the current all the way.
What is the Columbia River?
200
This official survey of all the people living in the United States takes place every ten years.
What is the census?
200
The indigenous people of the Americas were devastated by this disease in particular when the Europeans arrived.
What is smallpox?
200
When a narrator speaks from the "I" perspective, he/she speaks from the ______ person voice.
What is first person?
300
Although these two groups of Europeans did not intend to colonize and settle in North America, they had a powerful effect anyway, because of the diseases they brought to indigenous people in the Americas.
Who were missionaries and traders?
300
This river originates in Minnesota and empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
300
Congressmen and congresswomen in the House of Representatives serve for a term of this length of time.
What is "two years"?
300
American Indians and Anglo-Americans often had a different view of what was most important in these official agreements -- whether what was said at the meeting or what was written on the document itself. Give the word for those official agreements between two parties.
What is a treaty?
300
"Powder room" and "passed to the other side" are examples of this use of language, in which unpleasant facts of life are veiled in language that is intentionally unclear to soften the effect.
What is euphemism?
400
This famous battle resulted in defeat for General George Custer and victory for Sitting Bull and his fellow Sioux.
What was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
400
Most of the land west of the Mississippi was owned by this country until 1803.
What was France?
400
There are this many senators in the senate.
What is "100"?
400
The attempt to bring American Indians into mainstream American culture and to have them leave their own culture behind was called by this word (also applies to other attempts like it).
What is assimilation?
400
I'm starving to death. I might die of hunger here and now!" shouted the five year old as his father cooked a gigantic dinner in the kitchen. This is an example of wild exaggeration common among children and comedians.
What is hyperbole?
500
This religion rose up among Native Americans of the West and proved threatening to the US government as it envisioned their lands free of white men.
What was the Ghost Dance?
500
President Jefferson was crucial in acquiring the huge mass of land west of the Mississippi in 1803 in an acquisition known as ...
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
500
The head of this group of nine has a lifetime appointment and deals with constitutional matters.
Who is the Supreme Court Justice?
500
Checks and balances refers to the specific way different parts of the government has its own responsibilities as well as its ability to have oversight over other sections of government. Checks and balances are spread equally over these three branches of government.
What are the Judicial, Legislative and Executive branches?
500
The man who always went to the health food store for quinoa and other grains ended up being buried alive by huge sacks of grain one day. This unintended outcome is known by this word.