History Fact Finder

The Americas

1. When and how did the first people migrate to the Western Hemisphere? [answer]
2. Were the Vikings the first Europeans to reach North America? [answer]
3. Were the Spaniards the first Europeans to reach North America after the Vikings? [answer]
4. When was the first authenticated European landing in North America? [answer]
5. Why did Spain authorize Columbus to search for a westward route to the Indies? [answer]
6. Where did Columbus first land in the New World? [answer]
7. Did Columbus make any important discoveries in the Americas? [answer]
8. Why does controversy surround Christopher Columbus? [answer]
9. Who were the conquistadors? [answer]
10. What contributions did the Europeans make to the Americas? [answer]
11. How did America get its name? [answer]
12. How was Hernán Cortés able to claim Mexico for the Spaniards? [answer]
13. Who was Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca? [answer]
14. Who was Montezuma? [answer]
15. What were the Seven Cities of Cibola? [answer]
16. Who were the first Europeans to explore the Mississippi River? [answer]
17. What were the Spanish holdings in the New World? [answer]
18. What were the French holdings in the New World? [answer]
19. What were the Dutch colonial holdings in the New World? [answer]
20. Did Sweden have any colonies in the New World? [answer]
21. What was the Lost Colony? [answer]
22. Were the Pilgrims explorers? [answer]
23. Were African slaves the first source of labor in the English colonies? [answer]
24. What was the goal of the Lewis and Clark expedition? [answer]
25. How were the Puritans different from the Pilgrims? [answer]

Outer Boundaries

1. How old was Marco Polo when he began his famous journey to the Far East? [answer]
2. Who discovered the southwest passage to the Orient? [answer]
3. What is the Northwest Passage? [answer]
4. Who were the first Europeans to sail around the world? [answer]
5. Who was Hawaii Loa? [answer]
6. Who said, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" [answer]
7. What did the famous Captain James Cook discover? [answer]
8. Who was the first European to cross the Bering Strait? [answer]
9. Who were the first people to reach the North Pole? [answer]
10. Who was the first person to reach the South Pole? [answer]
11. Who was the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest? [answer]

American Expansion

1. Who were the expansionists? [answer]
2. How did the concept of Manifest Destiny influence the expansion of the United States? [answer]
3. Why was the Cherokee Nation forced to walk the Trail of Tears? [answer]
4. What caused more Irish people to emigrate to the United States in the mid-1800s? [answer]
5. When did major waves of immigration to the United States occur? [answer]
6. How many immigrants arrived at Ellis Island, and what did they experience there? [answer]

Air And Space

1. Who was the first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean? [answer]
2. When did aviator Amelia Earhart disappear? [answer]
3. When did the space age begin? [answer]
4. Who was the first person to travel in space? [answer]
5. Who was the first man to walk on the Moon? [answer]
6. Who was the first woman in space? [answer]
7. What was the first animal sent into space? [answer]
8. What was the impact of the Challenger disaster on the U.S. space program? [answer]
9. Why was the Mars Pathfinder project important? [answer]
10. What new discoveries have been made by the Hubble Space Telescope? [answer]