Musically Inclined
Composer of The Messiah.
Who is Handel?
The time during which Jonathan Edwards and others influenced colonists and helped spread Christianity in the New World.
What is the Great Awakening?
Country of which Frederick II was king.
What is Prussia?
The man who wrote most of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The German princess who married Peter III of Russia, overthrew him, and ended up ruling his country for 34 years.
Who is Catherine the Great?
The famous song from The Messiah that people stand up for when it is performed.
What is the "Hallelujah Chorus"?
The 18th century movement that encouraged people to look to human reason instead of faith in God.
What is The Enlightenment?
Where, during the American Revolution, George Washington and his men spent a very brutal winter.
What is Valley Forge?
Nickname of the battles of Lexington and Concord.
What is "The Shot Heard Round the World"?
The way Ben Franklin "proved" that lightening was made of electricity.
What is tying a kite to a string in a thunderstorm?
What Bach said was his reason for devoting his life to creating inspiring church music.
What is the glory of God?
Double Jeopardy!
A philosopher who was anti-church by promoted religious freedom.
Who is Voltaire?
During the Seven Years' War, the small region for which Frederick II fought.
What is Silesia?
The first 10 amedments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights
The author of Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
Famous song of Bach's that is often played at weddings.
What is "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"?
The famous work by Rousseau in which he exprested his belief in democracy and man's right to freely vote rulers into office.
What is The Social Contract?
4 of the 6 allies of Maria Teresa during the Seven Years War.
What are Russia, Sweden, Saxony, France, India, and Spain?
Three branches of the American federal government, as decided upon at the Constitutional Convention.
What are the executive, legislative, and judicial?
Jonathan Edwards's most famous sermon?
One of Mozarts greatest operas.
What is The Marriage of Figaro or Don Giovani?
Good friends with George Whitefield and credited with founding the Methodist church.
Who is John Wesley?
The two areas of North America over which the French and British fought during the French and Indian War.
What are the Ohio Valley and Canada?
The phrase that best describes the colonists' main complaint about King George III at the first Continential Congress.
What is "No Taxation Without Represenation"?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
The three classes of the Estates General in France prior to the French Revolution.
1st: Clergy
2nd: Nobility
3rd: Commoners (poor and middle class)