TRIVIA:
Which Founding Father passed a law that gradually emancipated slaves in his state (New York) starting in 1799?
a. Benjamin Franklin
b. John Jay
c. Alexander Hamilton
d. Thomas Jefferson
7th Grade:
Read the list of events below and put them in the correct order.
a. Samuel F. B. Morse perfects the telegraph.
b. Robert Fulton’s steamboat the Clermont successfully travels up the Hudson River.
c. Englishman Richard Arkwright invents the water frame.
d. The U.S. Supreme Court establishes precedence for the supremacy of federal law over state law in the case of Gibbons v. Ogden.
e. Francis Cabot Lowell’s first textile mill opens.
8th Grade:
Read the statements below and determine who or what is “speaking.”
1. “I was the struggle for global power between the United States and the Soviet Union.” What am I? 2. “I am an American policy that provides aid to foreign countries to fight communism.” What am I? 3. “I am an agreement among the United States, Canada, Iceland, and nine Western European countries to defend each other if attacked.” What am I?
4. “I was a meeting where the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union made plans for the postwar world.” What am I?
5. “I am an organization dedicated to helping countries solve conflicts using peaceful means.” What am I?
Which Founding Father passed a law that gradually emancipated slaves in his state (New York) starting in 1799?
a. Benjamin Franklin
b. John Jay
c. Alexander Hamilton
d. Thomas Jefferson
7th Grade:
Read the list of events below and put them in the correct order.
a. Samuel F. B. Morse perfects the telegraph.
b. Robert Fulton’s steamboat the Clermont successfully travels up the Hudson River.
c. Englishman Richard Arkwright invents the water frame.
d. The U.S. Supreme Court establishes precedence for the supremacy of federal law over state law in the case of Gibbons v. Ogden.
e. Francis Cabot Lowell’s first textile mill opens.
8th Grade:
Read the statements below and determine who or what is “speaking.”
1. “I was the struggle for global power between the United States and the Soviet Union.” What am I? 2. “I am an American policy that provides aid to foreign countries to fight communism.” What am I? 3. “I am an agreement among the United States, Canada, Iceland, and nine Western European countries to defend each other if attacked.” What am I?
4. “I was a meeting where the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union made plans for the postwar world.” What am I?
5. “I am an organization dedicated to helping countries solve conflicts using peaceful means.” What am I?
