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America’s Beginning
Round 1
People
Places
Documents
Religion
Events
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100
100
100
100
200
200
200
200
200
300
300
300
300
300
400
400
400
400
400
500
500
500
500
500
People
100 Points
He developed the principles of
separation and balance of powers in
government.
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People
100 Points
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
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People
200 Points
According to this man, the three
natural rights of man are life, liberty
and property.
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People
200 Points
Who is John Locke?
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People
300 Points
These people were American
supporters of the British during the
Revolutionary War.
Categories
People
300 Points
Who were the Loyalists?
Categories
People
400 Points
This man led the Indian rebellion
against white settlement west of the
Appalachians.
Categories
People
400 Points
Who was Pontiac?
Categories
People
500 Points
This person became a noted poet and
playwright and wrote an early history
of the American Revolution.
Categories
People
500 Points
Who is Mercy Otis Warren?
Categories
Places
100 Points
This southern colony became a safe
haven for debtors.
Categories
Places
100 Points
What is Georgia?
Categories
Places
200 Points
This was the first college established
in the colonies.
Categories
Places
200 Points
What is Harvard?
Categories
Places
300 Points
This colony was created as a safe
haven for Catholics.
Categories
Places
300 Points
What is Maryland?
Categories
Places
400 Points
This region is defined by the Ohio
River, the Great Lakes, and the
Mississippi River.
Categories
Places
400 Points
What is the Northwest Territory?
Categories
Places
500 Points
55 men representing 12 states debated
amendments to the Articles of
Confederation and drafted a new
Constitution.
Categories
Places
500 Points
What is Philadelphia?
Categories
Documents
100 Points
Thomas Paine inspired many colonists
to seek independence from England
when he published this pamphlet.
Categories
Documents
100 Points
What is Common Sense?
Categories
Documents
200 Points
Supports of the Constitution such as
John Jay and Alexander Hamilton are
known as these.
Categories
Documents
200 Points
What are Federalists?
Categories
Documents
300 Points
This document created a loose alliance
of the 13 states while preserving the
independence and most of the powers
of each state.
Categories
Documents
300 Points
What are the Articles of
Confederation?
Categories
Documents
400 Points
This document would only take effect
after 9 of the 13 states ratified it.
Categories
Documents
400 Points
What is the Constitution?
Categories
Documents
500 Points
In the creation of the Constitution,
Virginia would have supported a
legislation based on this.
Categories
Documents
500 Points
What is population?
Categories
Religion
100 Points
William Penn led this religious group
to settle in the New World.
Categories
Religion
100 Points
Who are the Quakers?
Categories
Religion
200 Points
These people were the most radical of
the Puritans. They believed that they
needed to separate themselves totally
from the Anglican Church.
Categories
Religion
200 Points
Who are the Separatists?
Categories
Religion
300 Points
This radical Protestant sect wanted to
strip the Anglican Church of all traces
of Roman Catholic influence.
Categories
Religion
300 Points
Who are the Puritans?
Categories
Religion
400 Points
This religious group in the Middle
Colonies had no priests, ministers, or
preachers.
Categories
Religion
400 Points
Who are the Quakers?
Categories
Religion
500 Points
In 1636, leaders of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony banished this woman for
committing what they believed was an
act of heresy.
Categories
Religion
500 Points
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
Categories
Events
100 Points
This event was a revival of intense
religious expression that swept
through the American colonies from
the 1720’s through the 1740’s.
Categories
Events
100 Points
What was the Great Awakening?
Categories
Events
200 Points
This event is also known as the Age of
Reason.
Categories
Events
200 Points
What is the Enlightenment?
Categories
Events
300 Points
This is the journey that African slaves
made from Africa to the American
colonies.
Categories
Events
300 Points
What is the middle passage?
Categories
Events
400 Points
This treaty recognized the United
States as a sovereign nation.
Categories
Events
400 Points
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
Categories
Events
500 Points
This rebellion by Massachusetts
farmers was triggered by postwar
depression and heavy state taxes.
Categories
Events
500 Points
What was Shay’s Rebellion?
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Time for
Round 2!
The Daily Double
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