Native American Lit
Early Settlers
Puritan Lit
Facts, Facts, Facts
Think Fast!
100

The way Native Americans viewed the land (i.e., their attitude towards the land they lived off of)

What is respectfully/as something to care for and not own?

100

The colony that John Smith and his company founded.

What is Jamestown?

100

To be this meant you were chosen at the beginning of time as one of God's chosen ones, to make it into Heaven. 

What is elect?

100

There were over this many indigenous tribes at the time the Europeans landed in North America.

What is over 240?

100

A story told to explain some unknown worldly phenomenon. (i.e., why the sky is blue.)

What is a myth?

200

The number of tribes in the Iroquois Confederacy.

What is 5?  (6 later, but I will take 5)

200

The only reason the settlers survived the first winter.

What was the Indigenous tribes giving them food and teaching them to grow certain crops?

200

Responsibility, Hard Work, Self-Control, Acceptance of Elect. 

What are the Puritan ethics?

200

The year that Jamestown was founded.

What is 1607?

200
A literary tool in which one thing is compared to another by insinuating it is that thing. (DOES NOT USE LIKE OR AS!)

What is a metaphor?

300

Dekanawidah of the 5 nations. 

Who began the Iroquois Confederacy?

300

She saved John Smith from being killed by her father, the tribe chief of the Pamunkee, Powhatan. 

Who is Pocahontas?

300

A statement that contradicts itself. (i.e. A spear that can cut through anything and a shield that cannot be broken cannot exist together.)

What is a Paradox?

300

This is when the Iroquois Confederacy was founded. (Isn't exact.)

What is the 1700s?

300

A loose union of independent states.

What is a confederacy?

400

Those pure of heart and willing to obey the laws of the 5 nations. 

Who was allowed to "Sit underneath the leaves of the Tree of Peace"?

400

Killed while sleeping next to a fire.

Who were Robinson and Emery?

400

The puritan pastor who gave the sermon "Sinners at the Hands of an Angry God".

Who is Jonathan Edwards?


(DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!)

Extra Question: Bet your points


Any category-



400

Anne Bradstreet, author of "To My Dear and Loving Husband". 

Who was the first published woman in America?

400

To remove the inhabitants from/to cutdown the size of a population.

What is depopulation?

500
Mother Earth and Father Sky

To whom was the Song of the Sky Loom addressed to?

500

Reasons the European settlers suffered when the ships left. (There are 4 answers written. I want two.)

What is: The captain refused to share his stores; The ships were their only reliable food source; They had no alcohol once the ships left; disease swept through the tribes. 

500

God is angry at you for everything you do, and there is no reason why he hasn't tossed you into hell yet.

What is the entire reasoning behind the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

500

Despite this being illegal, the Spaniards practiced this for decades, creating a strong power struggle between them and the natives.

What is slavery?

500

Forced submission/To be controlled by others.

What is oppression?