All American Scavenger Hunt

4. Francis Scott Key wrote the words “___ ____ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ____ __ ___ _____” in 1814, he did so in a poem called “The Defense of Fort McHenry
5. Many historians believe that fireworks originally were developed in the second century B.C. in ancient Liuyang, China
8. was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the United States and is recognized as a universal symbol of freedom and democracy

1. is a country of 50 states covering a vast swath of North America, with Alaska in the northwest and Hawaii extending the nation’s presence into the Pacific Ocean. Major Atlantic Coast cities are New York, a global finance and culture center, and capital Washington, DC, often shortened to _._._.
2. is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., and has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800 when the national capital was moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.
3. consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars alternate with rows of five stars.
6. is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known subspecies and forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle, which occupies the same niche as the bald eagle in the Palearctic
7. a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the Declaration of Independence, which was ratified by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States of America