Revolutions
This American document, written in 1776, declared the colonies’ independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This country was the first to industrialize in the 1700s.
What is the United Kingdom?
This country’s capital is Canberra, and it’s famous for kangaroos and the Great Barrier Reef.
What is Australia?
Jack Skellington is the Pumpkin King in this stop-motion Tim Burton classic.
What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?
During this celebration, families build ofrendas decorated with candles, flowers, and food to honor these loved ones.
What is Día de los Muertos?
The French Revolution began when angry citizens stormed this famous Paris prison on July 14, 1789.
What is the Bastille?
Before factories, most goods were made by hand in homes through this system.
What is the cottage industry?
This country in Europe is famous for classical music, the Alps, and its capital, Vienna.
What is Austria?
This 1993 Disney movie features the Sanderson Sisters, three witches resurrected in Salem.
What is Hocus Pocus?
The carved pumpkin, known as a jack-o’-lantern, originally came from a similar tradition using this vegetable in Ireland.
What is a turnip?
This U.S. founding father was the main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This invention by James Watt made factories and trains more efficient.
What is the steam engine?
The soccer player Lionel Messi is from this South American country
What is Argentina?
This 1984 movie about dream-invading Freddy Krueger terrified audiences.
What is A Nightmare on Elm Street?
The term “Halloween” is a shortening of this older phrase, meaning the evening before All Saints’ Day.
What is All Hallows’ Eve?
The French Revolution began in this year, often seen as a turning point in world history.
1789
This industry was the first to be transformed by machines such as the spinning jenny and power loom.
What is the textile industry?
This is the largest country in Africa
What is Algeria?
This 1988 Tim Burton comedy features a mischievous ghost whose name you have to say three times.
Who is Beetlejuice?
In colonial America, Halloween was mostly avoided because this group’s strict religious beliefs opposed it.
Who are the Puritans?
This Spanish-born social class controlled most power in colonial Latin America before the Mexican Revolution.
Who are the Peninsulares?
Workers during the Industrial Revolution formed these groups to demand better pay and conditions.
What are labor unions?
This landlocked country in Central Asia has its capital at Kabul.
What is Afghanistan?
This 2017 Pixar movie, inspired by Día de los Muertos, won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
What is Coco?
This ancient Celtic festival, celebrated on October 31, is considered the origin of modern Halloween.
What is Samhain?