Famous Americans
Explorers
Ancient Civilizations
Economics
Geography
100
This African American minister who worked for equal rights by peaceful means
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
This man explored the St. Lawrence River Valley and was sponsored by France.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
100
The "birthplace of democracy"
What was Ancient Greece?
100
Things that are made or grown, like cars or apples.
What are goods?
100
The imaginary line of latitude that divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
200
This Mexican American worked for better work conditions for farm workers through peaceful means.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
200
The country that sponsored Ponce de Leon
What is Spain?
200
Farmers, traders and road builders lived here.
What was Ancient Rome?
200
Something that comes directly from nature and satisfies a need or a want.
What are natural resources?
200
The imaginary line of longitude that divides the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
300
The president who was born in Virginia and was the commander of the army in the Revoutionary War.
Who is George Washington?
300
The oldest city in North America, discovered by Ponce de Leon
What is St. Augustine, Florida?
300
The type of column that has scrolls.
What is Ionic?
300
Someone who produces a good or provides a service, like a farmer.
What is a producer?
300
The lines on the Earth that run North to South or pole to pole.
What are lines of longitude?
400
This man was the author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
He was motivated to find a western sea route to Asia and was born in Italy.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
400
Griots, salt and gold miners lived here in this West African civilization.
What was Ancient Mali?
400
When a person or a group of people focus on one product or activity, like a dentist or ship builder in Ancient Greece.
What is specialization?
400
The body of water that goes through Rome
What is the Tiber River?
500
He was the president during the Civil War and freed the slaves.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
These include small ships, disease and poor weather.
What are the obstacles faced by Columbus?
500
The type of democracy that began in Ancient Rome.
What is representative democracy?
500
When people depend on someone else to provide some of their goods or services, like salt for gold in Ancient Mali.
What is interdependence?
500
The name of the body of water that Greece and Rome traded across.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?