Let's Make a Trade
Why Did it Happen?
Who's Who?
Where Am I?
It Said What?
100

This transatlantic route connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas, facilitating the exchange of enslaved people, goods, and raw materials across the Atlantic Ocean.

What is the Triangular Trade?

100

This 1688 event overthrew King James II and brought Protestant rulers William and Mary to the English throne.

What is the Glorious Revolution?

100

This Founding Father co-authored The Federalist Papers and was a leading advocate for a strong central government and the Constitution.

Who is Alexander Hamilton?

100

This British-controlled colony was originally a Dutch colony and was named after the Duke of York.

What is New York?

100

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

What is the Declaration of Independence?

200

These laborers signed contracts to work in the colonies for a set number of years in exchange for passage, food, and shelter, often facing harsh conditions similar to those of enslaved individuals.

Who are indentured servants?

200

On April 19, 1775, the "shot heard round the world" marked the beginning of the American Revolution in this famous battle.

What is the the Battle of Lexington?

200

This Quaker founder of Pennsylvania promoted religious tolerance and fair treatment of Native Americans.

Who is William Penn?

200

British soldiers occupied this city, leading to violent confrontations in the streets and a party on a ship.

What is Boston?

200

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

What is the U.S. Constitution?

300

This series of British laws, enacted in the 17th and 18th centuries, restricted colonial trade to ensure that American goods benefited the British economy exclusively.

What are the Navigation Acts?

300

Parliament passed this set of punitive laws in response to the Boston Tea Party, closing Boston Harbor and restricting town meetings.

What are the Coercive Acts (or Intolerable Acts)?

300

This Founding Father authored the Declaration of Independence, advocating for "unalienable Rights" but faced criticism for owning enslaved individuals.

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

300

This colony became a center for Quaker beliefs and attracted a diverse population.

What is Pennsylvania?

300

"Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States...by adding to the whole number of free persons...________ of all other Persons."

What is "three fifths"?

400

This period of European economic expansion, colonialism, and mercantilism, beginning in the late Middle Ages, led to increased global trade, wealth, and the rise of capitalist economies.

What is the Commercial Revolution?

400

This economic theory aimed to control colonial trade for the benefit of the empire and inspired the Navigation Acts.

What is mercantilism?

400

This author of Common Sense called for American independence and criticized the monarchy.

Who is Thomas Paine?

400

This river served as a crucial boundary for the new United States, separating it from British-held territories after the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

What is the Mississippi River?

400

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

What is the First Amendment (or Bill of Rights)?

500

This trade, crucial to both Native American and European economies in North America, involved fur pelts that were highly valued in Europe for hats and garments.

What is the beaver trade?

500

This act imposed a direct tax on paper goods in 1765, leading to widespread colonial protest.

What is the Stamp Act?

500

Known for his experiments with electricity and for symbolizing Enlightenment ideals, he founded the American Philosophical Society.

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

500

This region, known for its fertile soil and extensive waterways, became a center for tobacco farming and trade in colonial America, attracting English settlers and indentured servants.

What is the Chesapeake Bay region?

500

"Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions. Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent."

What is the Second Treatise of Government (by John Locke)?