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
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
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!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
| 1. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | Governing agreement between three towns written in 1639 by Thomas Hooker to protect individual rights. | 2. Jamestown | First English colony settled in 1607 for the purpose of economic reasons. | 3. Magna Carta | The King of England's protection for individual rights and approved taxation | 4. Mayflower Compact | Self-governing agreement reached by the Pilgrims at Cape Cod in 1620 | 5. Representative Government | System of government based on the public election of lawmaking officials | 6. House of Burgesses | Representative assembly established in the colony of Virginia | 7. Declaration of Independence | Document declaring the American colonies to be free from British rule | 8. Proclamation of 1763 | Royal decision that prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains | 9. Intolerable Acts | Punishment established as a result of the Boston Tea Party | 10. Mercantilism | Describes the relationship between a colony sending raw materials to the mother country in return for goods and products | 11. Unalienable Rights | God-given to all humans | 12. Battle of Yorktown | Final battle of the Revolutionary War that resulted in British surrender | 13. Battle of Lexington/Concord | First battle of the American Revolution resulting in a small colonial victory | 14. Battle of Saratoga | Turning point in the American Revolution in which France became allies | 15. Valley Forge | Pennsylvania location where the Continental Army endured the harsh winter of 1777-1778 | 16. French and Indian War | Conflict that left Britain with a huge debt and a desire to avoid future conflict | 17. Bill of Rights | The name given to the first ten original amendments to the US Constitution | 18. US Constitution | Document that established the three branches of government and rights of citizens in 1787 | 19. Articles of Confederation | Created first US government structure without executive or judicial branches | 20. Anti-Federalists | People who argued against the ratification of the Constitution because it weakened states' rights | 21. Constitutional Convention | Gathering of representatives in 1787 in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation | 22. Federalists | People who argued for the ratification of the Constitution | 23. Popular Sovereignty | The principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people | 24. Republicanism | Political philosophy that federal laws should be made by elected representatives | 25. Separation of Powers | Constitutional provision that ensures no single branch of government has complete authority | 26. Shay's Rebellion | 1786 revolt in Massachusetts that revealed a need for a strong national government | 27. The Federalists Papers | A set of essays written in support of the ratification of the Constitution | 28. The Great Compromise | An agreement between the states that created two houses of Congress based on both state population and equal representation for each state | 29. Three-Fifths Compromise | An agreement that states could count their slave population as a fraction in comparison to their free population for the purpose of representation and taxation | 30. Checks and Balances | Each branch of government has the power to check the behavior of the other two | 31. Hamilton's Financial Plan | The first Secretary of the Treasury's proposal to establish a national bank to stable the economic system | 32. Louisiana Purchase | 1803 expansion of US territory that doubled the size of the nation | 33. Tariff | Taxation on imported goods from other countries | 34. War of 1812 | Conflict with Britain over the impressment of US sailors that proved the nation could defend itself | 35. Indian Removal Act | 1830 law that required the relocation of Cherokees to western territories | 36. Trail of Tears | Large movement of Cherokees from their native lands, resulting in the deaths of thousands of Indians | 37. Nullification Crisis | Standoff between South Carolina and the federal government on the state's belief it could declare a federal law unconstitutional within its own borders | 38. Abolitionists | People who oppose slavery | 39. Eli Whitney | Inventor of the cotton gin, a device that changed the profitability of cotton farmers and the need of slavery labor | 40. Free Enterprise System | Economic system characterized by minimal government interference and free action between producers an consumers | 41. Second Great Awakening | Nationwide revival of strong religious feelings that sparked many reform movement of the 1820's and 1830's | 42. Seneca Falls Convention | Meeting in which women demanded equality with men, including the right to vote | 43. Compromise of 1850 | California was admitted as a free state in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law | 44. Dred Scott Decision | Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not viewed as citizens, but as property | 45. Fugitive Slave Law | Law that allowed Southern slave owners to hunt down escaped slaves in the North | 46. Gadsden Purchase | Land purchase from Mexico in 1853 to build a railroad connecting the South to the Pacific Coast | 47. Irish Immigrants | Came to America to escape famine | 48. Kansas-Nebraska Act | 1854 law that allowed popular sovereignty to decide whether a state will be free | 49. Manifest Destiny | Belief that it is the fate of the United States to occupy North America from Atlantic to Pacific coasts | 50. Mexican Cession | The purchase of much of the southwest territory of the United States through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | 51. Sectionalism | Tendency for people living in a particular region to develop their own unique way of life | 52. Elizabeth Stanton | A leader of the women's rights movement and organizer of the Seneca Fall Convention | 53. Horace Mann | Reformer for the availability of education for all children | 54. Temperance | Restriction of alcoholic beverages | 55. Urbanization | Movement of people from rural areas to cities | 56. Appomattox Court House | Location of Lee surrendering to Grant, ending the Civil War | 57. Battle of Gettysburg | Three day battle with 8,000 soldiers dead that marked a turning point victory for the Union army | 58. Battle of Vicksburg | Battle that occurred on the Mississippi River | 59. Emancipation Proclamation | Presidential order that declared all slaves free | 60. Fort Sumter | Location of the beginning of the Civil War | 61. Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America | 62. John Wilkes Booth | Assassinated Lincoln shortly after the Election of 1864 | 63. Robert E. Lee | Commanding General of Confederate forces | 64. Ulysses S. Grant | Commanding General of the Union forces | 65. 13th Amendment | Made the Emancipation Proclamation federal law | 66. 14th Amendment | Made all freed slaves American citizens | 67. 15th Amendment | Extended suffrage to African-Americans | 68. Black Codes | Laws passed in southern states that contained much of the same language as Slave Laws | 69. Carpetbaggers | Name given to northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction | 70. Freedman's Bureau | Federal organization that provided education, food, and medical care to former slaves | 71. Hiram Rhodes Revels | First African-American elected to Congress | 72. Reconstruction | Term given to the time directly after the Civil War when southern states rejoined the Union | 73. Scalawags | Name given to southerners who sided with the Union cause during the Civil War | 74. Sharecropping | Practice of former slaves working for plantation owners in exchange for livestock, tools, and land |
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