HISTORICAL SCAVENGER HUNT!
SHEET A
Directions: Your goal is to give as many correct answers as possible in 20 minutes. Good luck!
Clue #1: Go into the museum. Locate the "Strategic Center of the South" section, then find the "Georgia's War Industries" reader rail below. Answer the following.
If a child worked for 12 hours a day and earned $8 a week (in a six day work week), how much money would a child earn in four weeks?
Locate the Joe Brown pike. If Georgia bought 7000 pikes, how much did they pay total?
Clue #2: Go to the timeline near the entrance to the museum to complete the following:
Write the date of secession for each state, then number the states in the order they seceded
from the United States.
Date of Secession Order of Secession
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
Texas ______
HISTORICAL SCAVENGER HUNT!
Sheet B
Directions: Your goal is to give as many correct answers as possible in 20 minutes. Good luck!
Clue #1: Go inside the museum and locate "The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain" section. Find the cartridge box in the exhibit.
H ow many rounds of am munition does an infantry cartridge box hold? _ What do cavalrymen use to clean and tri m their horses' feet? ------
Clue #2: Stay inside the museum. Locate the "Art of Moving Armies" section, you will
find you r answers here.
Sherman depends on what rai l road for supplies? ------Name the 3 things an army needs to win battles.
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Clue #3: Find the section called "Georgians Answer the Call to Arms." Answer the following questions:
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What is the 1st Confederate National flag also ca l led? Why was a vertical stripe added to the "Stainless Banner"?
Clue #4: Leave out of the museum and find the arrowhead hanging near the front desk to answer questions about the National Park Service.
The National Park Service is part of what federal department? ------Locate a park ranger. Ask him/her what a bison represents for their agency.