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Acts were repealed.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does repealed mean?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