Early Exploration
This is the name of the person who kickstarted the Age of Exploration.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This is the real name of Britain's famous "Lost Colony."
What is Roanoke?
This is the name of the city where both a Massacre and a Tea Party took place.
What is Boston?
This was the name given to the small group of people responsible for creating and revising the Declaration of Independence.
What was the Committee of Five?
If you are going 60mph, you will travel this amount of distance in 60 minutes.
Many cities and states are now replacing Columbus Day with this other celebration of Native Americans.
What is Indigenous Peoples' Day?
This is the name of the first permanent British colony established on American soil.
What is Jamestown?
This was the name of the original design for the American government. It failed within a few years of its creation.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
This is what you call a slip of paper or code that discounts the price of a specific grocery or retail item.
What is a coupon?
Aside from Spain, this is the other major Iberian country that dove in on the spice trade and Age of Exploration before many others had the chance.
Where is Portugal?
The central region of the colonies, containing future states like New York and Pennsylvania, was known by this name.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This was the location of the final battle of the American Revolution as well as the final surrender of the British army.
What is Yorktown?
The U.S. Constitution fixed the problems of the previous government by allowing the government to perform this action.
What is "enforce the laws?"
This is the name of the Coca-Cola product that used to come in a mostly-black can and is now only available in a red can.
What is Coke Zero?
The Aztec and Inca Empires were both defeated by soldiers from this nation.
Where is Spain?
Settlers in New England were unique because they did not perform this specific action as much as the other two colonial regions did.
What is farming/agriculture?
The collection of four different laws as punishment for a certain tea party protest were called the "Coercive Acts" by the British. The Americans gave them this name instead.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
The U.S. Constitution is a living, breathing document. This is evidenced by these pieces, also known as "additions" or "changes" to the original document that have happened over time.
What are amendments?
Mr. Tuckey told you that he used to make certain types of products in his home. Name one of those products.
What are candles, fragrances, burned CDs, or music?
Whenever a government wanted to approve someone's voyage, they would issue a document (usually with a time limit) called by this name.
What is a charter?
This is the first colony to be established in the modern day US by any nation.
What is St. Augustine, Florida? (Established by Spain)
This was the name of the battle that convinced the French to join America's side during the Revolutionary War.
What was Saratoga?
The Declaration of Independence had quite a few sections. The "List of Grievances" section was a long list of complaints that the Americans had about this man in particular.
Who is King George III?
A cnidarian is a specific phylum of animal that includes several different specific creatures. Name one of them.
Options: coral, sea anemones, jellyfish, polyps