WorksheetsIllinois Passage
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which of the two following answers are the nicknames of Illinois?
Land of Lincoln
Cahokia
The Prairie State
The Windy City
What is the capital of Illinois?
Chicago
Des Plaines
Springfield
Peoria
Where is Lincoln's monument and tomb?
Springfield
Chicago
Washington D.C.
River Forest
Where does Chicago rank in terms of city size in the country?
The largest
Second largest
Third largest
The smallest
Which of the following is NOT an Illinois professional sports team?
Blackhawks
Bears
White Sox
Cardinals
What did many Native Americans build in what was early Illinois?
Mounds
Banks
Rivers
Treehouses
The two explorers who first explored Illinois were of what background?
British
French
German
Spanish
What were the names of the two men who explored what would become Illinois in 1673?
Price and Watson
Wilson and Taft
Vespucci and Cortez
Marquette and Joliet
Which explorer claimed Illinois for France?
La Salle
Marquette
Joliet
De Toqueville
Who mainly fought over land ownership in America?
France and Britain
Germany and Russia
Poland and Austria
Chile and Brazil
France lost all it's land east of the Mississippi River in what war?
The Revolutionary War
The Civil War
The War of 1812
The French and Indian War
Why did many Illinois Native Americans burn the trees on its land?
To cause pollution
To hurt the British
To make hunting easier
To send smoke signals to other tribes
