RULES FOR JEOPARDY

1. Choose Team name

2. Choose which team goes first

3. Teams go in order. Only one person per team may answer

WHEN IT IS THERE TURN.

1. If a team misses the next team in rotation may STEAL and

receive a point. If they miss the next team has chance to

steal. After a steal the next question goes to the team

whose turn it would normally be.

2. At the end teams have an opportunity to wager their points

on a final jeopardy question.

Which of these events happened 1st?

Trial of Peter Zenger

Pilgrims landed at Plymouth

Revolutionary War began

Founding of Jamestown

QUESTION 1 of 43

Which of these events happened 3rd?

Trial of Peter Zenger

Pilgrims landed at Plymouth

Revolutionary War began

Founding of Jamestown

QUESTION 2 of 43

Ben Franklin drew this cartoon to urge the

colonists to join together for which war,

French and Indian War or the Revolutionary War?

QUESTION 3 of 43

French and Indian War

Which country lost its land

in North America after the

French and Indian War?

QUESTION 4 of 43

France

England used a “hands-off” policy

with the colonies until after the

French and Indian War. What is the

name for this?

QUESTION 5 of 43

Salutary Neglect

What law ended

Salutary Neglect?

QUESTION 6 of 43

Proclamation of 1763

The Proclamation said the

colonists may not settle west of

what geographical feature?

QUESTION 7 of 43

Appalachian Mountains

The British put taxes on the

colonists because they were in debt

and needed money (income). What

is another word for income?

QUESTION 8 of 43

revenue

What tax were all colonists

forced to pay on legal

documents?

QUESTION 9 of 43

Stamp Act

The colonists in Boston were forced

to provide housing for British

Redcoats. What was this called?

QUESTION 10 of 43

Quartering Act

What law forced the colonists to pay

an extra tax on tea and gave trading

advantages to the British?

QUESTION 11 of 43

Tea Act

Which law forced a tax on glass,

lead, paint, and other items?

QUESTION 12 of 43

Townshend Acts

What was the first act of violence

between the colonists and Redcoats?

It happened in 1770, five years

before the war started.

QUESTION 13 of 43

Boston Massacre

The colonists decided not to buy

certain British goods. What is

this called?

QUESTION 14 of 43

Boycott

Parts of the Townshend

Acts were repealed. What

does repealed mean?

QUESTION 15 of 43

Cancelled

What was the event called

when the colonists

protested the Tea Act?

QUESTION 16 of 43

Boston Tea Party

What word means to express your

dislike for a rule or a law? The

Boston Tea Party is an example of

this.

QUESTION 17 of 43

protest

The colonists said it was unfair for

Britain to tax them since the colonists

did not get to vote on it. What phrase

did they use to express this?

QUESTION 18 of 43

No taxation without

representation

What was the name of the act

that the British used to punish

the colonists after the Boston

Tea Party?

QUESTION 19 of 43

Coercive Acts

(Intolerable Acts)

Name one part of the

Intolerable Acts that affected

the economy of Boston.

QUESTION 20 of 43

Boston Harbor was closed

Who was the leader of Britain

during the Revolutionary War?

QUESTION 21 of 43

King George III

The British forced the

colonists to trade with them.

What is this called?

QUESTION 22 of 43

mercantilism

Who was most likely to

be tarred and feathered by

the colonists?

QUESTION 23 of 43

British tax collectors

Who warned Sam Adams, John

Hancock and other colonists that the

British were coming to Lexington?

QUESTION 24 of 43

Paul Revere

Besides arresting Adams

and Hancock, what did the

British want at Concord?

QUESTION 25 of 43

Weapons/Ammo

Where was the “shot

heard ‘round the world?”

QUESTION 26 of 43

Lexington

The colonists had to be ready to

fight in a moment’s notice.

What was their nickname?

QUESTION 27 of 43

Minutemen

Which of these was NOT a cause of

the Revolutionary War?

Taxes

Proclamation of 1763

Magna Carta

QUESTION 28 of 43

What document told King George

III that the colonists wanted to be

free from British control?

QUESTION 29 of 43

Declaration of Independence

Who wrote the Declaration

of Independence?

QUESTION 30 of 43

Thomas Jefferson

Who had the largest signature on the

Declaration of Independence?

QUESTION 31 of 43

John Hancock

The Declaration of Independence says

we all have the right to life, liberty, and

the pursuit of happiness. What are these

rights called?

QUESTION 32 of 43

unalienable Rights

A colonist in favor of

independence was called a…

QUESTION 33 of 43

patriot

Who was the commander of the

Continental Army?

QUESTION 34 of 43

George Washington

Where did Washington and

his men spend a harsh winter

in 1777-1778?

QUESTION 35 of 43

Valley Forge

Why was Saratoga the

“turning point” of the

Revolutionary War?

QUESTION 36 of 43

France joined us

Where did the British

surrender at the end of the

Revolutionary War?

QUESTION 37 of 43

Yorktown

What officially ended the

Revolutionary War?

QUESTION 38 of 43

Treaty of Paris 1783

What was the most important

part of the Treaty of Paris 1783?

QUESTION 39 of 43

United States was born

Which person was a patriot?

Thomas Paine

King George III

Benedict Arnold

QUESTION 40 of 43

Which person was NOT a patriot?

Thomas Paine

King George III

George Washington

John Hancock

QUESTION 41 of 43

Who wrote Common Sense?

QUESTION 42 of 43

Thomas Paine

Draw and fill in the timeline and answer the question

_________________ (shot heard ‘round the word)

_________________ (Actually fought on Breed’s Hill) _________________

(Turning point)

_________________ (Final Battle)

__________

(2nd battle)

1775

1781

What was the name of the Document that officially

ended the revolutionary war and made the U.S. a nation?

BATTLES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Draw and fill in the timeline and answer the question

Lexington

Bunker Hill Saratoga

Yorktown

Concord

1775

1781

Treaty of Paris 1783

BATTLES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

What was the name of Paul

Revere’s partner who also left

Boston on a horse?

TIE BREAKER

William Dawes