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Values
Literature
Famous Americans
History
Mix it up!
100
Value which attracted immigrants to the colonies
What is freedom
100
Name of child who is to take over Mr. Bergson's farm after his death in "O! Pioneer"
What is Alexandra
100
President who served for 8 years and handed over the presidency in Barack Obama 2008
Who is George Bush, Jr.
100
Who first settled in the land that would become the US?
Who are British colonists/puritans/pilgrims
100
Americans' love of their country
What is patriotism
200
What has the United States been viewed as a land of? Hint: A place where there are circumstances that make you able to do many things.
What is "(land of) opportunity"
200
Author whose name you think has French pronunciation (but it doesn't) and who wrote "Souls of Black Folk"
Who is W.E. B. Dubois
200
Famous American who would not giver up her seat on a bus in 1950s
What is Rosa Parks
200
What year did the British colonists declare independence
What is 1776
200
a rhetorical or literary device in which a writer compares or contrasts two people, places, things, or ideas using the words 'like' or 'as'
What is a comparison
300
American belief that helping others from private initiative is good (and better than extensive help from the government)
What is volunteerism
300
Novel that exposed the cruel nature of slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
300
Speaker at Gettysburg
Who is Abraham Lincoln
300
Issue which threatened the existence of a united country, a United States of America?
What is "slavery"
300
The “can-do” spirit that made pioneers believe that they could make it in the unexplored territory.
What is frontierism/frontier spirit
400
The fact that Americans move many times during a life time (reflecting their belief in 'new beginnings')
What is "mobility"
400
Poetic genre that "The New Colossus" is written in
What is a sonnet
400
Speaker who ended a speech saying: "... when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
Who is Martin Luther King (jr)
400
The Doctrine that segregated the South for decades.
What is Seperate but Equal
400
idea that America has limitless wealth and natural resources
What is psychology of abundance
500
The wish to be the master of your own destiny, the ability to do and decide things for yourself without depending on others
What is individualism (or self-reliance)
500
(In the Declaration of Independence) Three words that come immediately after this: "... life, liberty and the
What is "pursuit of happiness"
500
Famous suffragette
Who is Susan B. Anthony
500
Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks are central figures in this 'campaign' of the people
What is Civil Rights Movement
500
Stemming from taming the Frontier and industrial expansion, the conviction that with each generation a family should get more successful
What is progress