Early America

US States

100

Largest state in the United States.

Alaska

200

Smallest state in the United States.

Rhode Island

300

Most populated state in the United States.

California

400

Least populated state in the United States.

Wyoming

500

Name the 5 inhabited U.S. Territories.

Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa.

US Geography

100

Largest river in the United States. It begins here in Minnesota at Lake Itasca and ends in Louisiana at the Gulf of Mexico (America).

Mississippi River

200

Largest mountain range in the United States.  It is located in Western US States like Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.

Rocky Mountains

300

Mountain Range in the Eastern United States.  It crosses states like Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

Appalachian Mountains

400

What is the Native American name of the tallest mountain in the United States? It is located in Alaska and its English name is Mount McKinley.

Denali

500

Name the 5 Great Lakes.

Superior, Michigan, Huron, Eerie, and Ontario.

Native Tribes

100

What is the most important animal to Great Plains Native Tribes?

North American Bison

200

Identify the 2 largest Native Tribes in Minnesota.

Anishinaabe / Ojibwe / Chippewa

Dakota / Lakota / Sioux

300

Famous Native American guide to the Lewis & Clark Expedition (Corps of Discovery).  She was born to the Shoshone Tribe in Idaho but had been captured by the Hidatsa Tribe in North Dakota.  Today North Dakota's largest lake is named after her.

Sakakawea or Sacagawea or Sacajawea

400

Chief of the Lakota who defeated the US 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Greasy Grass (Little Bighorn) in 1876 and has a large monument still under construction in South Dakota.

Crazy Horse

500

Which Native tribe helped inspire the 13 American Colonies to unite as one nation (the United States) during the American Revolution with examples like Hiawatha's Great Law of Peace and a democratic Confederacy form of government.

Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)

American Revolution

100

Name the city where the American Revolution began.  It was the site of a brutal massacre and a famous "Tea Party".

Boston, Massachusetts

200

First capital city of the United States.  It is where the Continental Congress met to write the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

300

Name the first 2 battles of the Revolutionary War that occurred on April 19, 1775 in Massachusetts.  The first battle was won by the British while the second was won by the Americans.

Lexington & Concord

400

The United States would NOT have won the war without the help of this European kingdom and their mighty navy.

France

500

Name the last major battle and the British commander who surrendered to end the American War for Independence.

Yorktown, Virginia

General Charles Cornwallis

Colonization

100

Who were the first Europeans to reach North America around the year 1000 AD / CE.

Vikings

200

Christopher Columbus was hired by Spain to sail across the Atlantic Ocean in the year ____.

1492

300

After the failure and death of the Roanoke Colony in 1586, ______________ became the first successful English colony in North America in 1607.

Jamestown, Virginia

400

The Plymouth Colony around Massachusetts Bay was settled in 1620 by a group of Christian Puritans called the ________ who were seeking religious freedom.

Pilgrims

500

The first Europeans to reach Minnesota were from which country?

France