Exploration/Colonies
This route went from New England to Africa, from Africa to the West Indies, and from the West Indies back to New England.
What is the triangular trade?
Five colonists were killed during this fight with British soldiers on March 5, 1770.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Immigrants arriving to the United States through Ellis Island came mostly from this continent.
What is Europe?
This style of reporting led many to believe that Spain had blown up the Maine.
What is yellow journalism?
These two teams are playing in the Super Bowl this Sunday.
Who are the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers?
This brought new plants and animals to Europe and the Americas and also brought disease to the Native Americans.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The first shot fired at Lexington was called this.
What is "the shot heard 'round the world?"
These were people born in America who were against immigration.
What were nativists?
This was the man-made waterway that gave US ships a quicker way to the Pacific Ocean for the purposes of trade and transporting troops.
What is the Panama Canal?
President Biden is a member of this political party.
What is the Democratic Party?
Puritans, Quakers, and Catholics all came to America for this.
What is religious freedom?
The Boston Tea Party led to the passage of these laws.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This law gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
One cause of the U.S. entering WWI was the sinking of the Lusitania by these.
What are u-boats?
This group sings the song "Dynamite."
The Mayflower Compact, House of Burgesses, and Fundamental Order of Connecticut all have this in common.
What is they all are examples of democracy?
These people were for independence from Great Britain for reasons including unfair taxation and Britain's abuse of power.
What were Patriots?
In the 1800s, these little people were hired to work in factories because they were cheap.
What are children?
***Daily Double***
These were the four long term causes of World War I.
What are militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism?
This Amazon founder is the richest man in the world.
Who is Jeff Bezos?
The voyage across the Atlantic that slaves took from Africa to the Americas was known as this.
What is the Middle Passage?
The purpose of this document was to state the reasons for the colonies' break from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
These groups fought against long hours, dangerous conditions, and low pay.
What are unions?
The Treaty of Versailles led to the rise of this German dictator.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
This Jeopardy host died of pancreatic cancer in November 2020.
Who is Alex Trebek?