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An Overview of the Who, What, When, Where and Why of
American History
Directions
Each team will send one student to the
board.
 When the teacher advances the slide,
the students at the board will read the
question and “SWAT” the right answer.
 The first person to SWAT the answer
must justify their choice in order for the
team to get the point.
 Teams will take turns sending students
until all questions have been answered.

The issue that strengthened federal
authority in cases of constitutional rights?
Judicial
Review
Bill of
Rights
Colonial
Grievances
The issue that strengthened federal
authority in cases of constitutional rights?
Judicial
Review
Bill of
Rights
Colonial
Grievances
An early English document that emphasized
individual rights over those of the king?
Mayflower
Compact
Constitution
Magna
Carta
An early English document that emphasized
individual rights over those of the king?
Mayflower
Compact
Constitution
Magna
Carta
The year the Declaration of Independence
was signed?
1775- Battles
of Lexington
and Concord
1775
1776- Common
Sense published
1777Battle of
Saratoga
1776
1778- France
and US form
Alliance
1778
The year the Declaration of Independence
was signed?
1775- Battles
of Lexington
and Concord
1775
1776- Common
Sense published
1777Battle of
Saratoga
1776
1778- France
and US form
Alliance
1778
A poet who wrote about the nation’s past in
works such as “The Midnight Ride…”?
Paul
Revere
Henry
Wadsworth
Longfellow
Henry
David
Thoreau
A poet who wrote about the nation’s past in
works such as “The Midnight Ride…”?
Paul
Revere
Henry
Wadsworth
Longfellow
Henry
David
Thoreau
The document that established the orderly
settlement of new territories west of the
Appalachian Mountains?
Louisiana
Purchase
RushBagot
Agreement
Northwest
Ordinance
The document that established the orderly
settlement of new territories west of the
Appalachian Mountains?
Louisiana
Purchase
RushBagot
Agreement
Northwest
Ordinance
The first representative assembly in the
colonies that was used as a model by other
colonies?
Orders of
Virginia
House of
Connecticut
Burgesses
Fundamental
Privy
Council
The first representative assembly in the
colonies that was used as a model by other
colonies?
Orders of
Virginia
House of
Connecticut
Burgesses
Fundamental
Privy
Council
The name of the patriot / anti-federalist who
said, “Give me liberty, or give me death”?
Patrick
Henry
George
Washington
James
Madison
The name of the patriot / anti-federalist who
said, “Give me liberty, or give me death”?
Patrick
Henry
George
Washington
James
Madison
The term that describes people who want to
make slavery illegal?
Transcendentalist
Suffragists
Abolitionists
The term that describes people who want to
make slavery illegal?
Transcendentalist
Suffragists
Abolitionists
The President who warned the U. S. to
“steer clear of permanent alliances”?
George
Washington
Thomas
Jefferson
James
Monroe
The President who warned the U. S. to
“steer clear of permanent alliances”?
George
Washington
Thomas
Jefferson
James
Monroe
The date of the establishment of
Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent
English settlement?
1607
1620
1635
The date of the establishment of
Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent
English settlement?
1607
1620
1635
The name of the revolutionary leader of the
Sons of Liberty?
Thomas
Paine
Samuel
Adams
George
Mason
The name of the revolutionary leader of the
Sons of Liberty?
Thomas
Paine
Samuel
Adams
George
Mason
The document written by colonists to state
their intent to separate from England?
The
Constitution
The Bill
of Rights
The
Declaration
of
Independence
The document written by colonists to state
their intent to separate from England?
The
Constitution
The Bill
of Rights
The
Declaration
of
Independence
An early colonist who is associated with the
fight for religious freedom?
William
Bradford
James
Oglethorpe
William
Penn
An early colonist who is associated with the
fight for religious freedom?
William
Bradford
James
Oglethorpe
William
Penn
The writer of a patriotic pamphlet entitled
Common Sense?
John
Locke
Thomas
Paine
King
George
III
The writer of a patriotic pamphlet entitled
Common Sense?
John
Locke
Thomas
Paine
King
George
III
A type of farming that produces only enough
to meet personal needs?
Plantation
Subsistence
Farming
Cotton
Farming
A type of farming that produces only enough
to meet personal needs?
Plantation
Subsistence
Farming
Cotton
Farming
The people who supported ratification of the
Constitution and a strong national
government?
Federalists
Antifederalists
Republicans
The people who supported ratification of the
Constitution and a strong national
government?
Federalists
Antifederalists
Republicans
The economic policy that states wealth
could be kept by a nation if its colonies
provided raw materials to the mother country
and the mother country could sell finished
goods to the colonies.?
Free
Enterprise
Mercantilism
Command
Economy
The economic policy that states wealth
could be kept by a nation if its colonies
provided raw materials to the mother country
and the mother country could sell finished
goods to the colonies.?
Free
Enterprise
Mercantilism
Command
Economy
The name of the document that was
America’s first “Constitution”?
Mayflower
Compact
Bill of
Rights
Articles of
Confederation
The name of the document that was
America’s first “Constitution”?
Mayflower
Compact
Bill of
Rights
Articles of
Confederation
The author who gave Americans pride in
their past with stories such as Rip Van
Winkle?
Edgar
Allan Poe
Washington
Irving
Frederick
Douglass
The author who gave Americans pride in
their past with stories such as Rip Van
Winkle?
Edgar
Allan Poe
Washington
Irving
Frederick
Douglass
The name of the French nobleman who
helped the colonists in the American
Revolution?
Marquis
de
Lafayette
Edmund
Genet
Napoleon
The name of the French nobleman who
helped the colonists in the American
Revolution?
Marquis
de
Lafayette
Edmund
Genet
Napoleon
The freedom of private businesses to
operate competitively for profit with little
government regulation?
Industrialization
Free
Enterprise
Mercantilism
The freedom of private businesses to
operate competitively for profit with little
government regulation?
Industrialization
Free
Enterprise
Mercantilism
A tax on foreign goods brought into a
country?
Tariff
Fare
Provision
A tax on foreign goods brought into a
country?
Tariff
Fare
Provision
A very large farm program requiring many
workers?
Subsistence
farm
Harvesting
Plantation
System
A very large farm program requiring many
workers?
Subsistence
farm
Harvesting
Plantation
System
Involvement in a community that involves
going a step beyond a person’s obligations
by taking an active role?
Civil
Disobedi
ence
Voting
Civic
Virtue
Involvement in a community that involves
going a step beyond a person’s obligations
by taking an active role?
Civil
Disobedi
ence
Voting
Civic
Virtue
Fundamental freedoms guaranteed to the
people naturally?
Bill of
Rights
Unalienable
Rights
Limited
Government
Fundamental freedoms guaranteed to the
people naturally?
Bill of
Rights
Unalienable
Rights
Limited
Government
The territory
gained in
1803,
doubling the
size of the
United
States?
Oregon
Territory
?
Spanish
Territory
Louisiana
Territory
The territory
gained in
1803,
doubling the
size of the
United
States?
Oregon
Territory
?
Spanish
Territory
Louisiana
Territory
The issue that forced the United States into
war with Great Britain in 1812?
Impressment
Taxation
without
Representation
Imperialism
The issue that forced the United States into
war with Great Britain in 1812?
Impressment
Taxation
without
Representation
Imperialism
An important colonial leader who spread the
idea of uniting the colonies- “join or die”?
Patrick
Henry
John
Hancock
Benjamin
Franklin
An important colonial leader who spread the
idea of uniting the colonies- “join or die”?
Patrick
Henry
John
Hancock
Benjamin
Franklin
Document that “forbids” European nations
from re-colonizing the western hemisphere?
Washington’s
Farewell
Address
Monroe
Doctrine
Treaty of
Paris
1783
Document that “forbids” European nations
from re-colonizing the western hemisphere?
Washington’s
Farewell
Address
Monroe
Doctrine
Treaty of
Paris
1783
In addition to the locomotive, what other
early 1800s technological innovation led to
an increase in markets for goods
manufactured in the Northeast?
Steamboat
Steel
Plow
Cotton Gin
In addition to the locomotive, what other
early 1800s technological innovation led to
an increase in markets for goods
manufactured in the Northeast?
Steamboat
Steel
Plow
Cotton Gin