ThanksUSA -- Chapter 13: By Kids, For Kids

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  • 03-01-2007 5:23 AM

    ThanksUSA -- Chapter 13: By Kids, For Kids

    Here is where you can post answers to the final chapter. You may also post questions and comments too! Also, post why you think the answer is right (or a website for source) in case some one disagrees, you have back up.

    This chapter you can post all answers for.
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  • 03-03-2007 9:22 PM In reply to

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    UNITY _ _    _ _ _ _ _ _

    rest is basic.
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  • 03-04-2007 11:16 AM In reply to

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    we can post all answers for this chapter
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  • 03-04-2007 3:15 PM In reply to

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    By filling in the word scramble a quote related to the state will be revealed at the end of each set.
     
    Michigan  Word Scramble Answers
                  #1 - By Elizabeth & Emma
     
    1) Harriet Quimby was the first woman in the United States to have a pilot's license.
    2) The Great Lakes were made from holes created from and filled by glaciers.
    3) Detroit has a floating Post Office.
    4) Fort Michilimackinac was colonized by the French settlers in 1715
    5) The state stone is the Petoskey Stone.
    6) Michigan's is nicknamed the wolverine state.
    7) Automobiles are not allowed on Mackinac Island.
    8) Michigan is shaped liked a winter mitten.
    9) The State seal has the Latin word "Tuebor" meaning "I will defend"
    10) Battle Creek is the cereal bowl of the world.
     
    Michigan   Word Scramble Answers
                   #2 -  By Matthew & Autumn
     
    1) In 1863 General Custer helped drive away confederate General Robert E. Lee.
    2) At the dawn of a new century, Michigan becomes part of the Indiana Territory in 1800.
    3) Two of Michigan's sports teams are ferocious animals, the tigers and the lions.
    4) Forest Fires are a major problem facing Michigan's home builders.
    5) Michigan mines for natural gas, iron ore, and petroleum.
    6) Until 1970, Father Gabriel Richard was the only priest to be in the United States Congress.
    7) During the great depression Fannie Peck created the Housewives league.
    8) Walter Reuther was president of the United Auto Workers from 1946 until he died in 1970.
    9) Copper Harbor is the northern most town in Michigan.
    10) The United States biggest cherry pie which was seventeen and a half feet in diameter and twenty-six inches deep was made in Michigan.
     
     
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  • 03-04-2007 11:58 PM In reply to

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    SD by Ross & Kelsi

    1.Tasunkewitko was a Sioux Chief whose nickname was Crazy Horse.

    2. In 2002, one percent of residents were miners.

    3. The State Motto is Under God The People Rule.

    4. Signs all over the world point to the World Famous Drugstore in Wall for free ice water.

    5.  Mount Rushmore was supposed to include the waists of the four presidents.

    6. January's average temperature is sixteen degrees fahrenheit and July's is seventy-four degrees fahrenheit.

    7. The Black Hills Reach 7,742 feet or 2,207 meters.

    8. In 1743 the La Verendrye Brothers were the first white men to claim land under France.

    dat4255

     

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  • 03-05-2007 6:55 AM In reply to

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    Rats, Bats--too much of a hurry and entered the wrong pillar answer...Blah
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  • 03-05-2007 7:07 AM In reply to

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    MAssachusetts

    First Group

    1. At the top of Mount Greylock is the highest point at 3491 feet.
    2. The state mineral is babingtonite.
    3. The chickadee is the state bird.
    4. Massachusetts was the sixth state to enter the union in 1788 .
    5. The American elm tree is the state tree.
    6. The Connecticut River is the longest interstate river.
    7. The ladybug is the state insect.
    8. The Mayflower is not just a ship, but also is the state flower.
    9. Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17,1706.
    10. The state fish is the cod.

    Second Group

    1. Boston is the location of the statue representing the book Make Way For Ducklings
    2. Four land regions:  the coastal lowland, the eastern upland, the western upland and the Connecticut valley lowland.
    3. During the 1600's Puritans made it a crime to dance and wear buttons, lace or shoe buckles.
    4. In 1692, there was a witch-hunt in Salem that led to nineteen people being convicted and hung as witches.
    5. The state motto is " by the words we keep peace, but only under liberty."
    6. The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770 after British redcoats fired on a crowd of people
    7. American paper money is printed at the Crane and Company mill  in Dalton.
    8. Paul Revere with William Dawes rode to Lexington to warn that the British were coming.
    9. Fenway Park has been home to the Red Sox since 1912.
    10. John Adams, the second president, and John Quincy Adams, the sixth president, were both from Massachusetts.

     

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  • 03-06-2007 8:59 AM In reply to

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    WA #1 By Madison & Julian
     
    1) Washington's nickname is the Evergreen state.
    2) Washington is the only state named after a president, George Washington
    3) Adam west played the role of Batman and was born in Walla Walla.
    4) William Henry Gates the third is called the "King of software" and is from Seattle.
    5) The state fish is the steelhead trout.
    6) Chuck Jones created the looney tunes and merrie melodies cartoons.
    7) James Whittaker climbed Mount Everest and Mount Rainier.
    8) The Willow Goldfinch is the state bird.
    9) The Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River is the largest concrete dam in the United States.
     
    WA #2 By Shelley & Joyce
     
    1) Jeff Bezos started Amazon.com.
    2) The state fossil is the Columbia Mammoth.
    3) In Oroville in 1854 Hiram Smith planted the first apple trees.
    4) Seattle was first called Duwamps.
    5) Seattle Slew was a thoroughbred racehorse who won the triple crown.
    6) In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat was a Nez Perce leader called Chief Joseph by the settlers.
    7) William Douglas was a Supreme Court Justice from 1939 until 1975.
    8) The Alaska marine highway is not a road at all, but a ferry system.
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  • 03-06-2007 1:31 PM In reply to

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    AZ #1 By Chantal & Tajin
     
    1) The Arizona State tree is the Palo Verde.
    2) The lowest point is 70 feet in the Colorado River.
    3) Arizona state mammal is the Ringtail.
    4) The state amphibian is the tree frog.
    5) Rose Mofford was Arizona's first female Governor.
    6) Arizona was the forty-eighth state to enter the union.
    7) Volcanoes formed the White Mountains
    8) Kit Carson fought the Navajo in the Canyon De Chelly in 1864
    9) Arizona's largest city and capitol is Phoenix.
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  • 03-06-2007 3:44 PM In reply to

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    AZ  #2   By Natalie & Jennifer
     
    1) The Colorado River creates most of Arizona's western boundary.
    2) Arizona got its name from the Native American word Arizonac which means "Small Springs."
    3) Clyde William Tombaugh was an Astronomer that discovered Pluto.
    4) The Arizona state gem is Turquoise.
    5) Camels were once used by the US Army to carry goods across the desert.
    6) Margaret Rowe Clifford wrote the Arizona march song.
    7) The official neckwear of Arizona is the bola tie.
    8) Arizona's motto is Ditat Deus meaning "God Enriches."
    9) The Hohokam Indians built over 100 miles of canals.
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  • 03-06-2007 6:21 PM In reply to

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    Texas   #1  By Alex & Ellio
     
    1) Fish found in Texas are catfish, crabs, marlin, red snapper, menhaden, oysters, sailfish, sunfish, shrimp and tarpon.
    2) Texas produces more than half of the jalapeno chili sauce made in the United States.
    3) The plains Indian tribes that lived in the Texas were the Apache and the Kiowa.
    4) Three of the world's best golfers, Ben Hogan. Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Lee Trevino, were born in Texas.
    5) The Texas gemstone is the topaz.
    6) Texas has over twelve agriculture products including sorghum and sugarcane.
    7) In 1914 the Houston ship channel was completed.
    8) The state's nickname is "The Lone Star State."
    9) Texas has two senators and thirty-two representatives and thirty-four electoral votes.
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  • 03-07-2007 1:37 AM In reply to

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    UT #2 BY DANIEL AND AIDAN

    1. The state gem is topaz

    2. The state name comes from the Navajo words “upper“ or “higher up” referring to the Ute Tribe.

    3. John Jacob Astor was a wealthy fur trader of beaver, otter, and other furs.

    4. The Honey Bee is the state insect.

    5. The Mountain Meadow Massacre occurred in 1857.

    6. The Allosaurus is Utah’s state fossil.

    7. Behind-the-rocks in southwest Utah has fifty square miles of canyons, arches, and mesas.

    8. The state mammal is the Rocky Mountain Elk.

    9. Barney Clark was given the world’s first artificial heart.

    10. The winter Olympics were held in Salt Lake City in 2002.

    Life is short.
    Break some rules!
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  • 03-07-2007 12:09 PM In reply to

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    UT #1 BY HUGH & GRAHAM

    1 Jim Bridger was a non-Indian explorer who found the Salt Lake but thought it was an ocean.

    2 In 1850 the United States Congress makes Utah a territory.

    3 Ute Indians raided the Mormon settlers which began the Walker War.

    4 Utah is the Beehive state.

    5 The state bird is the California Seagull.

    6 The state motto is “industry”.

    7 Reva Beck Bosone was the first woman Utahan to serve in the US House of Representatives in 1949.

    8 In 1896 Utah became the forty-fifth state.

    9 Gene Fullmer, born in west Jordan, was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

    10 The state cooking pot is the Dutch Oven.

    Life is short.
    Break some rules!
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  • 03-07-2007 1:47 PM In reply to

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    TX #2 BY MARY & ANNIKA

    1 During the 1820’s, Texas was once a part of Mexico.

    2 It is eight hundred one miles north to south and seven hundred thirty-three miles east to west.

    3 The state small mammal is the Armadillo.

    4 Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New Jersey, New York and Ohio could all fit in Texas

    at once with space leftover.

    5 Barbara Jordan was the first African American woman from the south to serve in the United States

    House of Representatives.

    6 Scott Joplin is known as the King of Ragtime music.

    7 Dinosaur Valley State Park’s dinosaur tracks turned to stone.

    8 In 1821, Texas becomes a state within the Republic of Mexico.

    9 Two cities were named after famous people: Houston and Austin.

    10 On New Year’s Day, Dallas holds the Cotton Bowl Game.

    Life is short.
    Break some rules!
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  • 04-30-2007 1:16 AM In reply to

    Re: ThanksUSA -- Chapter 13: By Kids, For Kids (CORRECTION to SD)

    Correction:  For SD by Ross & Kelsi:

    The first word in the first line should be Tashuncauitco not Tasunkewitko...the letters do not match Tasunkewitko (well it is for the puzzle I have anyway, lol)

    Alexis

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