Transcript Blank Jeopardy

“Declare
“We hold Rebel Rousers
and
the Causes”these Truths”
Armchair
General
Turning Points
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Loyalist Leaders
10 Points
Colonial taxes were
higher or lower
than in “Mother
England”
What was
lower?
20 points
Slogan used by Patriots to
argue against taxes
What is “No
taxation without
representation”?
30 pts
This event caused
thousands of dollars in
damage and major
punishment from Great
Britain
What is the Boston
Tea Party?
40 pts
Fearing that local farms
were being destroyed and
looted, they fired on
British troops
Who were the
Minutemen?
50 pts
List three of Boston’s
Tea Party punishmentsalso known as “The
Intolerable Acts”
What are:
closing Boston harbor,
prohibiting town
meetings, allowing
trials in England and
quartering troops?
10 pts
Primary author of the
Declaration of
Independence
Who is Thomas
Jefferson?
20 pts
Crime committed by
the signers of the
Declaration of
Independence
What is
treason?
30 pts
Idea in the
Declaration that was
also used by Native
Americans, African
Americans and women
to petition for better
status
What is “all men
are created
equal”?
40 pts
“HE” in the Declaration of
Independence
Who is “King
George’’?
50 pts
The opening words of the
Declaration of Independence
What is “When in the course
of human events…”
10 pts
Patriot who leads the
Continental Army and
later becomes our first
president
Who was George
Washington?
20 pts
Major leader of Boston
protests and colonial
cartoon propaganda
Who was Paul
Revere?
30 pts
Percentage of the
population in the
colonies who were
strong loyalists
What was 1/3
or 33%?
40 pts
Frenchman who provided
training to the Patriots
during the winter at
Valley Forge helping to
mold them into an
effective fighting force.
Who was the
Marquis de
Lafayette?
50 pts
As Governor of
Massachusetts, his
house was raided and
looted during the
Stamp Act crisis
Who is
Thomas
Hutchinson?
10 pts
Region where the
war began.
What was New
England?
20 pts
Name given to united army of
the colonies
What is the Continental
Army?
30 pts
Hired professional soldiers
from modern day Germanymajor advantage to British
Who are the
Hessians?
40 pts
Name the turning point
of the Revolutionary
War
What is the Battle
of Saratoga?
DOUBLE
JEOPARDY!
Place your wager.
Write it on the
board.
50 pts
Name the strategy that
American forces excelled at
that, along with foreign aid
and training, finally helped
them to win the war
What was
guerilla
warfare?
10 pts
Battles that started the
Revolutionary War.
What are
Lexington and
Concord?
20 pts
Nation that became a
colonial ally against Britain
in the war
Who was
France?
30 pts
Unsuccessful colonial
attempt to control the St.
Lawrence Seaway and
Canada
What are the
battles of
Quebec and
Montreal (or
March on
Canada)?
40 pts
Reason that the French and
other countries started to
provide the colonists with
financial and military aid.
What was the
colonial victory
over the British
at Saratoga?
50 pts
This siege was the final nail
in the British coffin and the
last battle of the
Revolutionary War
What was the
Battle of
Yorktown?