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What line divides the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
What is The Prime Meridian.
100
What is the largest continent?
What is Asia.
100
A system that allowed land grants to men who brought over 50 people to The New World.
What is the patroon system.
100
This law ordered colonists to allow British troops to stay in their homes.
What is The Quartering Act.
100
The founder of Pennsylvania.
Who was William Penn.
200
Where did the Maya settle?
What is through Chiapas, Tabasco, and Yucatan.
200
Where is the largest building in the world? (Burj Khalifa)
What is Dubai.
200
This was the first representative government of the United States.
What is the House of Burgesses.
200
What was the event that took place in Boston where British soldiers fought in an open fire mob against Bostonian colonists.
What is The Boston Massacre.
200
This man stood up for freedom of the press in 1735. He took place in a huge trial trying to get freedom of the press legalized.
Who was John Peter Zenger.
300
Where is the largest city in South America?
What is Sao Paolo, Brazil.
300
How many pyramids are there in Egypt?
What is about 80 pyramids.
300
These trials took place because people thought colonists were possessed by the devil.
What is the Salem Witch Trials.
300
British King tells settlers they cannot move west of the Appalachian mountains. What was this called?
What is the Proclamation of 1763.
300
Who was the first president to be inaugurated in Washington D.C.?
Who was Thomas Jefferson.
400
What is the main language in South America?
What is Spanish.
400
Who was the first King of England?
Who was King Egbert.
400
What did The New World have that Britain didn't?
What is a better education system, bigger middle class, and a more diverse population and literature.
400
These laws were passed to place duty, or tax, on popular items imported from Britain.
What was the Townsend Act and Writs of Assistance.
400
A man who ruled Britain and Scotland but also took away rights and lang grants from the American people.
Who was King James.
500
How large is South America?
What is 6,890,000 miles.
500
What are the 3 Baltic States?
What is Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
500
What was the original capital of the United States.
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
500
About how much tea was dumped into the Boston Harbor?
What is over 90,000 pounds of tea.
500
These two men road through the town of Concord alerting the men and women by saying the very well known phrase, "The British are coming!"
Who was Paul Revere and William Dawes.