The American Century?

Identify these places on the map:

1. America’s favorite gambling resort: ___________________.
2. Birthplace of atomic fission: __________________________.
3. Birthplace of jazz: __________________________________.
4. Birthplace of Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn:
         ____________________.
5. Birthplace of Mickey Mouse: _________________________.
6. Birthplace of Scott Joplin: ____________________________
7. Birthplace of Wal-Mart: ______________________________
8. Completely artificial media playground for big and little children:
         ____________________.
9. Elevation 14,400 feet, with a road to the top:_____________.
10. Famous site for legal skinny dipping: __________________
11. Four presidents on a mountain: ______________________.
12. Home of people whose language has no word for "time":
         _______________________.
13. Home of Elvis Presley: _____________________________.
14. Home of Old Faithful: ______________________________.
15. Home of one of America’s greatest poets, Emily Dickinson:
          _____________________.
16. Home of Scarlett O’Hara: ___________________________.
17. Home of the astronauts: ____________________________
18. Home of the computer revolution: _____________________
19. Home of the heroine in The Wizard of Oz: ______________
20. Home of the world’s largest software corporation:
    ____________________________________.
21. Home of William Faulkner: __________________________
22. Legendary site for American honeymoons: ____________.
23. Mainland America’s only tropical island: _______________.
24. Origin of hippies: __________________________________
25. Origin of the revolution in mass production: _____________
26. Origin of the unionizing of migrant workers: _____________
27. Site of Einstein’s office: _____________________________
28. Site of first gay riot against police oppression: ___________
29. Site of first powered flight: __________________________
30. Site of killing of 3 students protesting Vietnam War, by the army in 1968:
          ___________________.
31. Site of massive volcanic eruption: ____________________
32. Site of massive civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s:
         ____________________________.
33. Site of the first atomic bomb explosion: ________________.
34. Site of the most famous American horse race:
         ____________________________________.
35. Site of the most famous speech in American history:
         _____________________________.
36. Site of the Smithsonian Institution: ____________________
37. Site of the world’s largest natural supply of helium gas:
          ________________________.
38. Site of the world’s oldest living things: _________________.
39. Site of world’s first mass political women’s meeting: (1848)
         ________________________.
40. Workshop of America’s greatest architect: ______________

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