Pre & Colonial America
Name one thing or reason why Columbus set sail across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492.
Double Bonus: Name the Island that Columbus landed on that he thought was North America.
What are gold, spices, or a new trade route to Asia.
What is Hispaniola or Haiti or Bahamas or San Salvador or Watling's Island?
This British Monarch was ruler of England. The colonists described him as a tyrant and declared their independence from his control during the American Revolution.
Who was King George III?
There are three branches of government: the Judiciary, the Executive, and the Legislative. What is the primary role of each branch?
Bonus: Which branch, in theory, has the most power and why?
Legislative: Creates laws.
Executive: Enforces laws.
Judiciary: Decides if laws are constitutional.
Bonus: The Legislative because it's closer to the people.
This 19th-century belief that the expansion of the U.S. throughout the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean was led by God, justified, and inevitable.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The main reason the Civil War was fought.
What is slavery?
When Columbus landed in the Americas, the Native people died. Name one reason for the decline in the number of Native people after they met Columbus.
Double Bonus:
The name of the Native people that Columbus encountered.
What are diseases, slavery, and senseless killing by Columbus and his men?
Who were the Tainos or Arawaks?
The result of this conflict gave the British new land west of the original colonies that was also claimed by France. However, the colonists were prevented from moving west to avoid fighting with the Native Americans living there, which made the colonists very unhappy.
What was the French and Indian War?
One of the seven principles of government, this principle says, "the government right to rule comes from the consent of the people."
What is Popular Sovereignty?
During this forced march to Oklahoma in 1838, 6,000 out of 16,000 Cherokee Natives died under the policy of the Indian Removal Act, which gave land West of the Mississippi to native tribes living East of the Mississippi.
What was the Trail of Tears?
The agreement that allowed slavery south of 36'30" and did not allow slavery north of 36'30".
What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Name the letter for the picture that shows the real Christopher Columbus.
What is none of them or all of them, since no known drawing or portrait of Christopher Columbus exists!
This law was passed by the British Parliament which required Americans to pay a tax on printed materials and other goods such as playing cards. The colonists believed this outrageous act must be stopped, so they took immediate action.
What was The Stamp Act?
In this form of government, citizens elect leaders who represent their interests for a period of years. The citizens hold the ultimate power because if they don't like what their leaders are doing, they can vote them out of office.
Hint: The U.S. practices this type of government!
What is a Representative Democracy?
Between 1870 and 1960, more than 100,000 Native Americans were forced by the U.S. government to these locations where tribal languages and cultures were replaced by English and Christianity.
What were Indian Boarding Schools?
A reason given by the Supreme Court that Dred Scott could not be free despite living in a free state and territory.
What is not a U.S. citizen or what is property or what is a violation of the 5th Amendment?
Between 12-15 million Africans were brought to the Americas as part of the Triangular Trade. Name one crop that was grown on plantations worked by slave laborers.
What are sugar, coffee, molasses, and tobacco?
A group of colonists who fought against the British taxes. They were known for targeting British tax collectors by destroying homes, burning life-sized dolls in public squares, and tarring and feathering tax collectors.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
Mr. Goo has lost his cellphone in class. He demands all the students in class to empty their backpacks to show that they don't have it. "No, no, no," the students respond, "you cannot make us do that!" What right under the Bill of Rights are the students claiming?
Bonus: What is that Amendment Number?
What is "No Unreasonable Search and Seizure?"
Bonus: Amendment #4.
Name three states created as a result of the Mexican-American War under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848?
What are New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California, Texas, and western Colorado.
Names of Abolitionists you studied who fought against slavery.
Bonus! Bonus! Bonus!
400 additional points for naming all six abolitionists.
Who was Frederick Douglass, Grimke Sisters (Angelina and Sarah), Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, or William Lloyd Garrison?
Name a reason that Native Americans could not be enslaved as easily as Africans.
What is Native Americans could run away and hide since they were at home in their environment, or they were tough and could not be forced to work or the Natives outnumbered the settlers and could fight back.
For real, this group should be blamed for starting the Boston Massacre.
Who were the Colonists?
This document created a national government consisting of a legislative, an executive, and a judicial branch, with a system of checks and balances among the three branches. It also divided power between the federal government and the states, and protects individual liberties of American citizens.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
It is often said that the U.S. is a nation of immigrants. Overwhelmingly, immigrants enter the U.S. for this particular reason. (Please be specific. Don't write "a better life," Yeah, I get that.)
What are jobs?
Name two things African Americans could not do under Jim Crow Laws in Opelousas, LA.
What is own or rent property within city limits, or live in the city unless working for a White employer, or travel without a pass from an employer, or own a gun, or meet in a group of other African Americans.