The French and Indian War
Which two European powers fought in the French and Indian War?
What are Britain and France?
What was the main group involved in Shays’ Rebellion?
Who are farmers?
What act taxed paper products and led to widespread boycotts in the colonies?
What is the Stamp Act?
What Enlightenment thinker argued for natural rights like life, liberty, and property?
Who is John Locke?
Which U.S. president is on the $1 bill?
Who is George Washington?
What was the key territory both sides wanted control over?
What is the Ohio River Valley?
What state was the center of Shays’ Rebellion?
What is Massachusetts?
What event in 1770 involved British soldiers killing five colonists in Boston?
What is the Boston Massacre?
Which philosopher’s idea of separation of powers influenced the U.S. Constitution?
Who is Montesquieu?
What Springfield, Massachusetts, game was invented by Dr. James Naismith in 1891?
What is basketball?
What treaty ended the French and Indian War in 1763?
What is the Treaty of Paris?
What did the farmers want to stop by rebelling?
What are foreclosures on their farms and high taxes?
What was the colonial protest against the Tea Act in 1773, where tea was dumped into Boston Harbor?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Which Enlightenment thinker advocated for freedom of speech and religion?
Who is Voltaire?
What document signed in 1215 limited the power of the English king?
What is the Magna Carta?
What was the British policy that prevented colonists from settling west of the Appalachians after the war?
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Who was the leader of the rebellion?
Who is Daniel Shays?
What were the laws passed to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party, known as the Intolerable Acts?
What are the Coercive Acts
What Enlightenment thinker believed people were naturally good but corrupted by society?
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
Which famous ship sank on its maiden voyage in 1912?
What is the Titanic?
What was the war’s name in Europe?
What is the Seven Years’ War?
How did Shays’ Rebellion reveal the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
What is the inability of the federal government to intervene or raise a militia?
What document, written in 1776, declared the colonies' independence from Britain?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What is the Enlightenment idea that a government's power comes from the consent of the governed?
What is popular sovereignty?
What symbol represents the United States in political cartoons, often paired with the phrase “Join or Die”?
What is a snake?