Exploration/Pre-European Contact
The Colonies
The Revolution
The Constitution
Miscellaneous
100
These shells were made into beads and then into belts that the Haudenosaunee people used/use as communication.
What are wampum?
100
Name the three geographic regions of colonies
What are Northern, Middle, Southern?
100
This is the name of an Act passed by Parliament that led to the Revolutionary War
What is the Stamp Act? (also acceptable: What are the Townshend Acts, what are the Intolerable/Coercive Acts?)
100
These are the three branches of government.
What are Executive, Legislative, Judicial?
100
This 2016 musical centers around which Founding Father?
What is Hamilton?
200
What does the name "Haudenosaunee" mean?
What is "people of the longhouse"?
200
Jefferson looked to this rebellion as the first example of colonial protest (Hint: this is also a 7th grade student's last name)
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
200
What was the name of the famous protest in a harbor?
What was the Boston Tea Party?
200
What two elected groups make up Congress?
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
200
Congress came up with a compromise in 1787 on how to pick the President, creating a system known as what?
What is the Electoral College?
300
Name three countries from which European explorers came.
What are Spain, Portugal, France, England, Netherlands?
300
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America; its founding was motivated by economic gain.
What is Jamestown?
300
Name at least two of the people who were considered "firebrands."
Who are Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, and/or Samuel Adams?
300
The President being able to veto is an example of what?
What are Checks and Balances?
300
What crops, also found in our community garden here at NCS, are grown as a result of Haudenosaunee farming innovation?
What are the three sisters (corn, beans, squash)?
400
What were the three main motivators of exploration?
What are Gold, Glory, God?
400
This image was created by Benjamin Franklin in 1754, to unify the colonists before this conflict.
What is the French and Indian War?
400
The Declaration of Independence identified these three "inalienable rights":
What are "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness"?
400
How many TOTAL representatives are there in Congress?
What is 535?
435 HoR + 100 Senate = 535
400
What document did the American colonists use to first claim that they had rights protecting them from the King?
What is the Magna Carta?
500
Name the 6 nations of the Haudenosaunee confederacy.
What are the Seneca, Tuscarora, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cuyauga?
500
Where (geographically) was most of the fighting during the French and Indian War?
What is the Ohio River Valley?
500
The "shot heard around the world" occurred at this battle.
What is The Battle of Lexington and Concord?
500
In which articles of the Constitution are the branches of government established?
What are articles 1, 2, and 3?
500
Name the 6 elements of culture.
What are Arts, Cities, Government, Social Structure, Writing/storytelling, Belief System?