The French and Indian War
Shays Rebellion
Seeds of Revolution
The Enlightenment
Bonus
100

Which two European powers fought in the French and Indian War?

What are Britain and France?

100

What was the main group involved in Shays’ Rebellion?

Who are farmers?

100

What act taxed paper products and led to widespread boycotts in the colonies?

What is the Stamp Act?

100

What Enlightenment thinker argued for natural rights like life, liberty, and property?

Who is John Locke?

100

Which U.S. president is on the $1 bill?

Who is George Washington?

200

What was the key territory both sides wanted control over?

What is the Ohio River Valley?

200

What state was the center of Shays’ Rebellion?

What is Massachusetts?

200

What event in 1770 involved British soldiers killing five colonists in Boston?

What is the Boston Massacre?

200

Which philosopher’s idea of separation of powers influenced the U.S. Constitution?

Who is Montesquieu?

200

What Springfield, Massachusetts, game was invented by Dr. James Naismith in 1891?

What is basketball?

300

What treaty ended the French and Indian War in 1763?

What is the Treaty of Paris?

300

What did the farmers want to stop by rebelling?

What are foreclosures on their farms and high taxes?

300

What was the colonial protest against the Tea Act in 1773, where tea was dumped into Boston Harbor?

What is the Boston Tea Party?

300

Which Enlightenment thinker advocated for freedom of speech and religion?

Who is Voltaire?

300

What document signed in 1215 limited the power of the English king?

What is the Magna Carta?

400

What was the British policy that prevented colonists from settling west of the Appalachians after the war?

What is the Proclamation of 1763?

400

Who was the leader of the rebellion?

Who is Daniel Shays?

400

What were the laws passed to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party, known as the Intolerable Acts?

What are the Coercive Acts

400

What Enlightenment thinker believed people were naturally good but corrupted by society?

Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

400

Which famous ship sank on its maiden voyage in 1912?

What is the Titanic?

500

What was the war’s name in Europe?

What is the Seven Years’ War?

500

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?

500

What document, written in 1776, declared the colonies' independence from Britain?

What is the Declaration of Independence?

500

What is the Enlightenment idea that a government's power comes from the consent of the governed?

What is popular sovereignty?

500

What symbol represents the United States in political cartoons, often paired with the phrase “Join or Die”?

What is a snake?

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