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2. LET’S PLAY JEOPARDY!!

3. Jeopardy Documents Famous People Battles Causes Potpourri Q $100
Final Jeopardy

4. $100 Question from Category 1
This document written by Thomas Jefferson
marks the birth of our nation.

5. What is the Declaration
$100 Answer from Category 1
What is the Declaration
of Independence?

6. $200 Question from Category 1
This document officially ended the Revolutionary War.

7. What is the Treaty of Paris?
$200 Answer from Category 1
What is the Treaty of Paris?

8. $300 Question from Category 3
This document was the first
movement to declare independence
from England.

9. What is the Mecklenburg Declaration
$300 Answer from Category 1
What is the Mecklenburg Declaration
of Independence?

10. $400 Question from Category 1 DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This document influenced the other
twelve colonies to declare independence.

11. What is the Halifax Resolves?
$400 Answer from Category 1
What is the Halifax Resolves?

12. $500 Question from Category 1
This pamphlet written by Thomas Paine
influenced colonists to demand a
democratic government.

13. $500 Answer from Category 1
What is “Common Sense”?

14. $100 Question from Category 2
This member of the Sons of
Liberty inspired Patriots with his
“Give me liberty or give me death” speech.

15. $100 Answer from Category 2
Who is Patrick Henry?

16. $200 Question from Category 2
He was the general of the
British forces who surrendered to
George Washington at Yorktown.

17. Who is General Charles Cornwallis?
$200 Answer from Category 2
Who is General Charles Cornwallis?

18. $300 Question from Category 2
The leader of the Sons of Liberty
who published pamphlets, wrote letters,
and gave speeches that opposed British rule.

19. $300 Answer from Category 2
Who is Samuel Adams?

20. $400 Question from Category 2
He refused to give up economic and political control of the
13 American colonies.

21. $400 Answer from Category 2
Who is King George III?

22. $500 Question from Category 2
This North Carolinian held one of the first
political gatherings by women in Edenton,
NC to protest British taxes on tea and clothing.

23. $500 Answer from Category 2
Who is Penelope Barker?

24. $100 Question from Category 3 DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This was the location of the last major
battle of the Revolutionary War where Cornwallis
surrendered to Washington.

25. What is Yorktown, Virginia.
$100 Answer from Category 3
What is Yorktown, Virginia.

26. $200 Question from Category 3
The patriots proved that they were willing
to fight for the right to govern
themselves at this first battle of the
Revolutionary War.

27. What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
$200 Answer from Category 3
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?

28. $300 Question from Category 3
At this battle, one of the first battles in the
South, the Patriots defeated the Loyalists
preventing them from taking over the south
and encouraging North Carolina to seek
independence.

29. What is the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge?
$300 Answer from Category 3
What is the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge?

30. $400 Question from Category 3
This battle led by Nathaniel Greene in
Greensboro, NC, severely weakened Cornwallis
Army, causing him to eventually lose the war.

31. What is the Battle of Guilford
$400 Answer from Category 3
What is the Battle of Guilford
Courthouse?

32. $500 Question from Category 3
This was considered the turning point
of the Revolutionary War because it
convinced France and Spain to assist the
patriots.

33. What is the Battle of Saratoga?
$500 Answer from Category 3
What is the Battle of Saratoga?

34. $100 Question from Category 4
At this event, patriots dressed like
Native Americans boarded British ships and
threw their cargo of tea into the harbor to
protest taxes.

35. What is the Boston Tea Party?
$100 Answer from Category 4
What is the Boston Tea Party?

36. $200 Question from Category 4 DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Paul Revere created an engraving of this
event that left five colonists dead, including Crispus
Attucks, the first African American to
give his life for independence.

37. What is the Boston Massacre?
$200 Answer from Category 4
What is the Boston Massacre?

38. $300 Question from Category 4
This war left England in debt,
which led to higher taxes on the colonies.

39. What is the French and Indian War?
$300 Answer from Category 4
What is the French and Indian War?

40. $400 Question from Category 4
This set of laws punished the colonists in
Boston by closing the port until they paid for
the destroyed tea.

41. What is the Intolerable Acts?
$400 Answer from Category 4
What is the Intolerable Acts?

42. $500 Question from Category 4
This popular phrase was shouted by patriots
who protested the Townshend and Tea Act because
they were upset about not having a say in government.

43. “no taxation without representation”?
$500 Answer from Category 4
What is
“no taxation without representation”?

44. $100 Question from Category 5
They were at a disadvantage because they had
no navy, an untrained army, and fewer supplies.

45. $100 Answer from Category 5
Who are the patriots?

46. $200 Question from Category 5
These colonists sided with the British
during the Revolutionary War.

47. $200 Answer from Category 5
Who are loyalists?

48. $300 Question from Category 5
The first battle and many of the events that
led to the Revolutionary War began
in this colony.

49. $300 Answer from Category 5
What is Massachusetts?

50. $400 Question from Category 5
This royal governor of North Carolina
upset many colonists when he used taxes
To build himself a mansion.

51. Who was Governor William Tryon?
$400 Answer from Category 5
Who was Governor William Tryon?

52. $500 Question from Category 5 DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This British law forced colonists to provide
shelter and food to British soldiers?

53. What is the Quartering Act?
$500 Answer from Category 5
What is the Quartering Act?

54. Final Jeopardy The Declaration of Independence states
that all people are born with these
three unalienable rights.

55. What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Final Jeopardy Answer
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?