QR Challenge: The Constitution and New Republic Ch.6

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. What was the name of first major challenge to John Adams presidency when French ministers who's names were never revealed, (they were only referred to by letters) wanted bribes in exchange for negotiations over French seizure of American ships.	The XYZ Affair
2. What officially ended the American Revolution and recognized the united States of America as an independent nation?2	Treaty of Paris 1783
3. This negotiated an end to British military outpost in the US, but did not stop British seizure of American ships or impressment of sailors.3	Jay's Treaty
4. These declared that states could nullify federal laws they believed broke the compact they had entered into as states when forming the federal government, in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts.4	Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
5. Name of a meeting in which all states were invited but only 5 states attended in Annapolis concluded with Hamilton and Madison persuading the other states to meet again in Philadelphia at a convention to revise the Articles.5	Annapolis Convention
6. What was the European conflict that divided Americans like Thomas Jefferson who wanted to support it and George Washington who did not.6	The French Revolution
7. This included the Naturalization Act, which increased the required number of years to acquire US citizenship from 5 to 14 years, could deport immigrants considered dangerous and detain them in times of war, and made it illegal for newspapers to criticize either the president or Congress and imposed fines or imprisonments for editors who violated the law.7	Alien and Sedition Acts
8. This case influenced freedom of speech and press, when a journalist was jailed for questioning the practices of the governor of NY.8	The Zenger Case
9. The event where PA Farmers rebelled against an excise tax on whiskey made from surplus corn by attacking tax collectors.9	The Whiskey Rebellion
10. Gave Warnings:DON’T get involved in European affairs,DON’T make permanent alliances – would be heeded for next 100 years, DON’T form political parties- too late- already happening, DON’T fall into sectionalism10	Washington's Farewell Address
11. GW didn’t believe the US was strong enough to engage in European conflicts so he issued this proclamation to stay out of foreign affairs, and T. Jefferson got so angry in disagreement with GW over it he resigned from the cabinet.11	Proclamation of Neutrality
12. The French minister that was recalled after breaking protocol and directly appealing to the American public for help in the French Revolution, but instead of returning to France chose to remain in the US where he married and became a US citizen.12	"Citizen" Genet
13. Peaceful transition of power between poltical parties of John Adams Federalist to Thomas Jefferson Democratic Republicans. Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied in electoral votes, so House of Representatives voted and chose Jefferson.13	Election of 1800
14. Negotiation between US and Spain to open up lower Mississippi River, New Orleans, and set Florida's N. boundary at 31st parallel.14	Pinckney's Treaty
15. Compromise on how to count the slave population in the South for purposes of representation and taxation.15	Three-Fifths Compromise
16. Bicameral Legislature, House of Reprentatives based of representation on population, and Senate based on equal number of representation per state (2), also known as the Connecticut Plan.16	The Great Compromise
17. Favored small states and wanted equal number of representatives per state.17	New Jersey Plan
18. Favored large states and wanted representation to be based on population.18	Viginia Plan
19. Series of 85 persuasive essays written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay to convince states (especially anti-federalist) of the need for a Constitution.19	The Federalist Papers
20. Created for depositing gov’t funds, and printing bank notes that would provide for a stable US currency, Hamilton argued it was "necessary and proper" according to Article I, section 8 of the Constitution and so could be and was done.20	The National Bank

 

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