The Age of Exploration Station
The name of one ship brought to the America's by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
La Niña, la Pinta and la Santa Maria.
Name one occupation/job of the original Jamestown settlers.
Councell, preacher, gentlemen, carpenter, blacksmith, sailer, barber, bricklayer, mason, tailor, drummer, laborer, boyes, and surgeon.
Who was the first President of the United States?
George Washington.
Name one branch or part of the government.
Congress, legislative, President, executive, the courts, judicial
The earliest known inhabitants of the Eastern Woodlands were peoples of the Adena and Hopewell cultures, who inhabited the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys between ___ BCE and ___ CE.
800 BCE and 800 CE.
The location that the Mayflower landed after its 66 day voyage.
Plymouth Harbor, Massachusetts
What day was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
July 4, 1776
What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
speech, religion, assembly, press, petition the government
Name 3 reasons for European expansion.
Need for resources, Find gold, More land, Find faster route to India & China, Spread Christianity
20 people, mostly by hanging.
What did the Declaration of Independence do?
Announced our independence from Great Britain.
There are four amendments to the Constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them.
Citizens eighteen (18) and older (can vote), You don’t have to pay (a poll tax) to vote, Any citizen can vote. (Women and men can vote.), A male citizen of any race (can vote).
*BONUS*: Give the amendment number for YOUR answers for +50 for each correct answer!
The explorer who claimed the Hudson River and modern NY for the Netherlands, AND claimed the Hudson Bay area for England.
Henry Hudson.
About __________ Africans were forced through the slave trade over the course of 3 centuries.
10 million Africans.
There were 13 original states. Name four.
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
How many amendments does the Constitution have?
Twenty-seven (27)
*BONUS*: Name and describe two of them for +250 points
The name of the Native American tribe that lived in oval wigwams and whose tribes include the Delaware, Pequot, Narragansetts, and the Wampanoag.
The Algonquians.
Name one characteristic about William Penn.
Founder of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, Signs a peace treaty with the Lenape Indians in 1683, Supported democracy & religious freedom across his colony.
Name two Native American tribes in the United States.
Cherokee, Navajo, Sioux, Chippewa, Choctaw, Pueblo, Apache, Iroquois, Creek, Blackfeet, Seminole, Cheyenne, Arawak, Shawnee, Mohegan, Huron, Oneida, Lakota, Crow, Teton, Hopi, Inuit
Name five national U.S. holidays.
New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas