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Misc.
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The Protestant Christian belief that some God chooses certain people for heaven and some for hell before they are born.
What is Predestination.
100
This colony was the first permanent English colony in North America
What is Jamestown
100
Group of people who favored industry, strong central government, and that those who were rich and well educated should rule the country.
Who were The Federalist
100
Ended the war of 1812
What is The Treaty of Ghent
100
Sailed the ocean blue in 1492
Who is Christopher Columbus
200
A gendered power structure in which social identity and property descend through the female line.
What is Matriarchy
200
Indian war against the Spanish and their encomienda system that eventually led to accommodations of Native American cultures.
What is The Pueblo Revolt
200
Law that prevented colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is The Proclamation Act of 1763
200
Territory bought from the French that doubled the size of the U.S. (date?)
What is The Louisiana Purchase of 1803
200

By 1850, there were 31 states in the union. Which state was the 31st?

California

300
The reasons given for the exploration of the New World by Europeans in the 15th century
What is God Gold Glory
300
Any of several acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1847 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain.
What is Navigation Acts
300

Famous eventual first lady that urged her husband to "Remember the Ladies" when forming our country.

Abigail Adams

300
First Democratic Republican President that wanted to reduce the size of the government, lower taxes, shrink the military, and enable an agrarian utopia.
Who was Thomas Jefferson
300

This famous American History event happen on this day, December 16, in 1773 in Boston Massachusetts significantly escalating tensions between the American Colonies and Great Britain, leading to the Intolerable Acts.

Boston Tea Party

400
The widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries.
What is Columbian Exchange
400
An 18th century philosophical movement that emphasized the use of reason to reevaluate previously accepted doctrines and traditions and the power of reason to understand the shape of the world.
What is Enlightnment
400

Plan that proposed Congress be divided into two houses- The House of Reps. & The Senate- where the House of Reps members would be based on population and ever state would receive two senators.

What is The Great Compromise

400
Battle led by Andrew Jackson that launched his political career and made him a war hero
What is The Battle of New Orleans
400

Two "animated" Christmas movies are famous for having one actor play almost all of the major parts. 


Name the movies and the actors!

A Christmas Carol - Jim Carey (2009)

Polar Express - Tom Hanks (2004)

500
The one disease that traveled from the New World to the Old World during the Columbian Exchange
What is Syphilis
500

Plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin to unite the colonists against The French.

What is The Albany Plan of Union. (Join or Die)

500

When looking at the inspiration and development of self government ideas and structures leading up to the Constitution and branches of government, there were three major examples that we look at as the "first" in US history.


Match the idea or impact with the correct name of the example:

1. First social contract establishing self-government in the English colonies.

2.  This is the first written constitution in American history.

3. The first democratically elected body in American history, laying the foundation of what would become the future bicameral legislature.

1. Mayflower Compact

2. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

3. House of Burgesses 

500

Due to expanding culture throughout the world, and in the US it was attributed to the Second Great Awakening and Romanticism, a significant amount of religiously based music was created in the early to mid 1800s, including many famous Christmas carols that we still sing today.

- Originally written in German, this song was composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber with lyrics by Joseph Mohr, and was translated to English in 1859. During the "Christmas Truce of 1914" during World War I, the carol was sung simultaneously by English and German troops.


Silent Night


Some other famous Holiday songs from the 1800s:

- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

- Up on the Housetop

- Jolly Old Saint Nicholas

- Jingle Bells

- O Little Town of Bethlehem

- Away in a Manger

- Joy to the World

- It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

- O Holy Night

- Angels We Have Heard On High

- We Three Kings of Orient Are

- What Child is This?

500

This Irving Berlin Christmas song is the best-selling single record of all time, with over 100 million sales, worldwide. Made famous by singer, Bing Crosby.

White Christmas