Lesson 7
Lesson 8
Lesson 9
Week 2
extra
100
Name of war that broke out after French troops invaded Native American territories.
What is French and Indian War?
100
Who owned this carriage and on display at the Hermitage?
Who was Catherine the Great?
100
A strong term that indicated how upset the colonists were with the British and would serve as a clue that war was on the way.
What was the Boston Massacre?
100
War of three countries vs. seven countries.
What was the Seven Years' War?
100
Pittsburgh was named to honor this famous general.
Who was General William Pitt?
200
George Washington was what age when, on behalf of the British colonists, he told the French to abandon their forts in the Ohio Valley.
What was 21 years old?
200
Hardly putting up a fight he was exiled by his own queen.
Who was Peter III?
200
A Puritan who organized the Boston "Sons of Liberty" which was a underground group of freedom fighting rebels.
Who was Samuel Adams?
200
Benjamin Franklin was born in this town and state.
What was Boston, Massachusetts?
200
Law requiring purchase of British stamps to prove British taxes had been paid on legal papers.
What was the Stamp Act?
300
They settled in Canada in the seventeenth century were of British descent. Later some moved to Louisiana. They were called Cajuns in Louisiana.
Who were the Acadians?
300
Elizaveta Petrovna, the daughter of Peter the Great, owned approximately this many dresses and this many pairs of shoes!
What was 15,000 dresses and 2500 shoes?
300
150 colonists dressed up as Native Americans and boarded British ships in the Boston harbor and dumped 90,000 lbs of tea in the cold water in 1773.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
300
Wrote a books against Machiavellianism(a ruthless government that rules by deception).
Who was Voltaire?
300
Famous author of the classic poem Paul Revere's Ride.
Who was Longfellow?
400
George Washington built this fort in the Ohio Valley to mark his "victory" of this war.
What was Fort Necessity?
400
Catherine the Great, the empress of Russia, was actually born this country.
What was Germany?
400
The gentleman who rode with Paul Revere to announce the British are coming.
Who was William Dawes?
400
Contained a calendar, a handbook for farmers, and famous tips such as "A penny saved is a penny earned."
What is Poor Richard's Almanack?
400
Though the battle is famously called the Battle at Bunker Hill it actually took place elsewhere.
What was Breed's Hill?
500
Writer of a famous poem titled Evangeline: A Tale of the Acadie. To commemorate the pitiful treatment of the French Acadians.
Who was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
500
After Catherines's unexpected death she had hoped her grandson Alexandar would reign but who ended up on the throne?
Who was Paul?
500
Author of a small masterpiece called Common Sense.
Who was Thomas Paine?
500
A country that mysteriously disappeared off the map in 1947.
What was Prussia?