FAMOUS NAMES
POTPOURRI
FOUNDING FATHERS
COLONIES & COLONIZERS
HODGE PODGE
100
This president during the War of 1812 was the author of the US Constitution.
James Madison
100
This film series was based on a book by Stephanie Meyer and told the story of Edward, Bella, and Jacob.
Twilight Saga
100
General of Continental Army and first president of United States
George Washington
100
This musician comes from this country that established the colony Jamestown in the New World.
England
100
This singer began her career as Hannah Montana.
Miley Cyrus
200
This British musician had a #1 hit with the song Watermelon Sugar.
Harry Styles
200
One of the causes of the American Revolution was the British doing this without colonial representation in Parliament.
taxation
200
This Italian explorer landed in North America and believed he had reached India.
Christopher Columbus
200
This explorer blazed a trail through Kentucky and is often depicted in a coonskin cap.
Daniel Boone
200
Labor in the Southern colonies switched from ________ to slaves due to the growth of the cash crop industry and the inability of slaves to obtain their freedom after a set time.
indentured servants
300
This print shop owner helped negotiate with the French to join the American Revolution, led the campaign against the Stamp Act, and appears on the $100 bill.
Benjamin Franklin
300
This video streaming company has admitted to programming an algorithm designed to addict its users.
Tik-Tok
300
This singer songwriter famously targeted his ex girlfriend Ellie Goulding in the song Don't.
Ed Sheeran
300
This country founded the colony that became New York
Netherlands
300
This revival of religious belief was a response to the Enlightenment.
Great Awakening
400
Author of Common Sense and official author of revolutionary ideas.
Thomas Paine
400
This group was one of the first to speak out against slavery.
Quakers
400
This man created a financial plan that turned America capitalist, and is the subject of a Broadway musical.
Alexander Hamilton
400
The Norse people from this region founded a settlement in North American almost 500 years before Christopher Columbus.
Scandinavia
400
The only successful uprising by Native Americans in the American colonies was known as the Pueblo _______.
Revolt
500
Ideas in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were inspired by the writings of John Locke, Voltaire, and Montesquieu. These men were a part of this movement that relied on reason rather than spirituality.
Enlightenment
500
Name one of the possible explanations for the Salem witchcraft hysteria.
stress, boredom, repression, fungus on bread, getting rid of enemies, rich attacking poor
500
This second president signed the Alien and Sedition Acts that ruined his chance for reelection.
John Adams
500
Name one of the inventions that made European exploration of the Americas possible.
gunpowder, cannons, firearms, caravel, astrolabe, quadrant, compass, galleon
500
This country believed Native Americans could be assimilated into white society
Spain
600
This passionate orater famously said, "Give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry
600
This Enlightenment philosopher created the political ideology "liberalism" and shares his name with a place you put a key.
John Locke
600
This president encouraged land ownership and immigration and wanted to return America to republican simplicity.
Thomas Jefferson
600
The rebellion of slaves aboard this illegal slave ship led to their eventual freeing by an American court. The rebellion was later dramatized in a film by Steven Spielberg.
Amistad
600
This document that came before the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation was the first written constitution in the New World, and pledged its loyalty to colonial law instead of the king of England.
Mayflower Compact
700
This wife of an American president famously reminded her husband to, "remember the ladies."
Abigail Adams
700
Name the two groups that argued about ratification of the Constitution because they disagreed on how much power the federal government should have.
Federalists and Anti-Federalists
700
Nickname of female water carriers during the American Revolution.
Molly Pitcher
700
Of Tecumseh, Powhatan, or Metacom, this Native American leader founded a Native American Confederation during the War of 1812.
Tecumseh
700
After the American Revolution, women took on a new role as educators of children about patriotism and citizenship. This role was known as republican ________.
motherhood