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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

$100 Answer from Category 2 Who is Patrick Henry?

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

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

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

$300 Answer from Category 2 Who is Samuel Adams?

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

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

$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.

$500 Answer from Category 2 Who is Penelope Barker?

$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.

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

$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.

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

$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.

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

$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.

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

$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.

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

$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.

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

$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.

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

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

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

$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.

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

$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.

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

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

$100 Answer from Category 5 Who are the patriots?

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

$200 Answer from Category 5 Who are loyalists?

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

$300 Answer from Category 5 What is Massachusetts?

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

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

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

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

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

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