Chapter 1: Native Americans
Chapter 2: Exploration and Early Colonialization
Chapter 3: Colonial Foundations
Chapter 4: American Revolution
Chapter 5: Constitutional Foundations
100

This is the continent where the first Native Americans are believed to have come from.

What is Asia

100

Colonies exist to benefit the mother country through trade and supply of raw resources under this economic concept.

What is mercantilism

100

This philosophical movement in Europe influenced new ways of thinking and reason in the colonies. 

What is the Enlightenment

100

The British government created this unfair tax on molasses that angered the colonists.

What is the Sugar Act

100

This bloody uprising of farmers in Massachusetts showed the colonists how weak the Articles of Confederation were.

What is Shays Rebellion

200

Many Native Americans tribes hunted this sacred land animal.

What is the buffalo

200

This is the name for the colonies in the northeast of the country.

What are the New England colonies

200

The French and Indian War was fought over this highly prized territory in North America.

What is the Ohio River Valley

200

British soldiers and colonists fought violently in the streets in this tragic event that left 6 dead.

What is the Boston Massacre

200

This is the name given to a 2 house legislative body/congress that the Virginia Plan aimed to create.

What is bicameral

300
When nomadic tribes would move from place to place, they would often set up temporary houses made from animal hide called this.

What are teepees

300

This was the name for the trade network between the Old World, New World, and Africa.

What is Triangle Trade.

300

After the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War, all territory east of this famous piece of geography was given to the British.

What is the Mississippi River

300

The 2nd Continental Congress named this man as General to lead the new Continental Army against the British in the American Revolution.

Who is George Washington

300

This is the solution created at the Constitutional Convention that blended parts of the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan into one cohesive government.

What is the Great Compromise

400

This is the name of the group of 5 tribes united by the chief of the Mohawk to live and work close together.

What is the Iroquois Confederacy.

400

The Pilgrims who landed on Plymouth Rock created this document to establish rules and laws in their society.  

What is the Mayflower Compact

400

Benjamin Franklin created this failed plan to unite all of the 13 colonies under one government, with the motto of "Join or Die".

What is the Albany Plan

400

Thomas Paine wrote his pamphlet Common Sense to educate his readers and spread Anti-British sentiment across the colonies. Samuel Adams was similar and created this secret organization to rally for independence.  

What are the Sons of Liberty

400

Alexander Hamilton and other upper-class colonists were a part of this group of people that wished for a strong national government but not a Bill of Rights. 

Who are the Federalists

500

This aspect/topic of social studies is what shapes the world around us (Ex: Why people live where they do or live the way they do). 

What is geography

500

The Virginia colony created this as the first example of an elected legislative body in Colonial America.  

What is the House of Burgesses

500

This royal document issued by King George III created an imaginary line along the Appalachian Mountains that banned westward settlement.

What is the Proclamation of 1763

500

The British Government passed these series of unfair laws against the colonists in order to punish them for the Boston Tea Party. 

What are the Intolerable Acts

500

One of the few successes of the Articles of Confederation was this document that set the standard for admitting future territory as states into the Union (USA).

What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787