QR Challenge: Colonial/Revolutionary Era Test

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 primary cause of the economic differences among the colonies in North America	Geography
2. The Virginia House of Burgesses was important in the development of colonial America because it was the first attempt to	Representatives were elected by the people
3. Which cash crop is credited with helping the Jamestown colony to survive	Tobacco
4. Who greatly helped John Smith and the colonists survive in the difficult Virginia climate	Pocahontas
5. Name three reason for European Exploration and three reasons for European Colonization	Religion/Wealth/Fame/ National pride/Curiosity/Faster, cheaper trade routes to Asia/ Religious freedom/Political freedom/Economic opportunity (mercantilism)/Social mobility/A better way of life
6. What are three reasons for Representative growth in the 13 colonies	The distance from England created a need for colonists to make their own laws and keep peace and order/Colonists were accustomed to English traditions and structures (Parliament)/Most colonies were self-governing, electing members of their community to a general assembly, which made their laws.
7. What do the years 1607 and 1620 represent in the Colonial Era	Founding of Jamestown, Virginia, first permanent settlement/ Arrival of the Pilgrims and signing of Mayflower Compact/Plymouth Colony (Massachusetts)
8. What group of people started a colony in New York and Delware	Dutch/Swedes
9. What were the physical geographic factors in the colonies	proximity to Atlantic coastline determined where settlements/colonies were created
10. Name the three regions and tell me one fact about two facts about each	New England/Middle/Southern
11. Why was slavery so important to the Southern colonies in the colonial era	The economy was agrarian, and slaves kept the plantation system profitable.
12. Many Puritans settled within which of the British colonies in North America/What Region/For what reasons	Massachusetts/New England Region/Religious
13. What did the French and Indian War do to the British/What did they try and do to fix this problem	Put the British in debt/Tax the Colonist
14. What did the Proclamation Line of 1763 forbid/Why	Western Settlement/To Prevent any Indian Conflict
15. Why was there a lack of representation in Parliament	The distance from England created a need for colonists to make their own laws and keep peace and order/Colonists were accustomed to English traditions and structures (Parliament)/Most colonies were self-governing, electing members of their community to a general assembly, which made their laws.
16. Why did the 13 Colonies Declare Independence on July 4th 1776? Who wrote the Declaration of Independence	reaction to King George III‘s refusal to acknowledge the colonial requests/demands, dissolve the political bands with Britain, provided philosophy for the establishment of the new nation (all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and pursuit of happiness), and listed grievances against the King of England Writing the Articles
17. Why did Thomas Paine write Common Sense	To Urge Colonist to break away from Great Britain
18. What was the Articles of Confederation and why was it so weak	Governed the nation throughout the American Revolution/Only one branch of government
19. Name the three major battles of the American Revolution. Tell me one fact about Each	Battle of Lexington and Concord/Battle of Saratoga/Battle of Yorktown
20. What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)	Independence recognized, boundaries extended to Canada in the North, the Mississippi River in the West, and Florida in the South.
21. Who was the Commander and Chief of the Continental Army	George Washington
22. Who was Wentworth Cheswell	African American Patriot, like Paul Revere he made an all-night ride back from Boston to warn his community of the impending British invasion, served in the army and fought at the Battle of Saratoga
23. What does the term Civil Disobedience and Unalienable Rights mean	the refusal to obey a government law or laws as a means of passive resistance because of one’s moral conviction or belief fundamental rights or natural rights guaranteed to people naturally instead of by the law. Examples in the Declaration of Independence- Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness

 

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