PA Places Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Built by Washington's men after the first shots of the French and Indian War were fired. | Fort Necessity |
Replaced the burnt down Fort Duquesne; place were disease infected blankets were used during Pontiac's Rebellion | Fort Pitt |
Washington was sent to this fort to ask the French to leave the Ohio River Valley; the French refused. | Fort LeBeouf |
Capital of Pennsylvania | Harrisburg |
Constitutional Convention was held here; place where the Declaration of Independence was first read; Liberty Bell; capital of the US until the early 1800s. | Philadelphia |
River the forms the eastern border of Pennsylvania | Delaware River |
River that flows through Harrisburg | Susquehanna River |
River that flows north to Pittsburgh | Monangahela River |
River that flows south into Pittsburgh | Allegheny River |
flows west from Pittsburgh to the Mississippi | Ohio River |
the Allegheny Portage Railroad connects these TWO cities | Hollidaysburg & Johnstown |
largest battle of the Revolution fought in PA | Brandywine |
"these are the times that try's mens souls"; Washington's troops spent the winter at this encampment | Valley Forge |
Proclamation of 1763 prohibited settlement past this geographic feature | Appalachian Mountains |
firs oil drilled in the US was at this PA city | Titusville |
first building to be lit by electricity | Sunbury |
largest battle of the Civil War; marked a turning point in favor of the North | Gettysburg |
City burnt to the ground by the Confederates | Chambersburg |
Place of the Horseshoe Curve, which enable trains to conquer the Allegheny Mountains | Altoona |
lake port city | Erie |
Lumber capital of the world | Williamsport |
Indian School for assimilating native americans into white society | Carlisle |
Nuclear Meltdown | Three Mile Island |
PA port cities | Erie, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia |
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