1. Usage Guidelines for Jeopardy PowerPoint Game
Game Setup
Right now, Click File > Save As, and save this template with a different file name. This will keep the template untouched, so you can use it next time!
Scroll through the presentation and enter the answers (which are really the questions) and the questions (which are really the answers).
Enter in the five category names on the main game board (Slide 4).
Game Play
Open 2nd Slide, let the sound play. Click to 3rd Slide, let the sound play. Click to 4th Slide and show students the Game Board
As you play the game, click on the YELLOW DOLLAR AMOUNT that the contestant calls, not the surrounding box.
When the student answers, click anywhere on the screen to see the correct answer. Keep track of which questions have already been picked by printing out the game board screen (Slide 4) and checking off as you go.
Click on the “House / Home Icon” box to return to the main scoreboard.
Final Jeopardy – Go to Slide 3 and click “Final Jeopardy” button in the bottom right corner, click again for the Question, click again for final jeopardy sound, When that is finished playing click again for the answer slide.

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5. How did Great Britain plan to pay for The French and Indian War?

6. Tax the Colonies

7. What was the main reason colonists were upset by British taxes? (quote)

8. No taxation without representation

9. What was the first direct tax on the colonists?

10. The Stamp Act

11. What did the colonists do in response to the Townshend Act?

12. Boycott British Goods

13. What did the Proclamation of 1763 forbid?

14. Settlement West of the Appalachians

15. Who led the Continental Army?

16. George Washington

17. Who was the silversmith whose night riders got word to Lexington and Concord the Red Coats were going to attack?

18. Paul Revere

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20. Who am I and what is my famous quote?

21. Patrick Henry “Give me Liberty or Give me Death”

22. Who drafted the Declaration of Independence?

23. Thomas Jefferson

24. Who was the Frenchman who helped lead Washington’s army?

25. Marquis de Lafayette

26. Where was the first shot fired during the Revolution?

27. Lexington

28. Why was Saratoga the turning point?

29. The French allied with the British

30. What was the result of the Battle of Yorktown

31. Cornwallis was forced to surrender

32. Why were the battles of Trenton and Princeton important to the Patriots

33. It boosted patriot moral

34. Roughly how many soldiers died at Valley Forge?

35. 3,000

36. How many people were killed in the Boston Massacre?

37. 5

38. Why the British army forced to leave Boston

39. Washington shelled the city

40. What were the main problems facing Washington’s army? (3 things)

41. Lack of food, supplies, and training

42. What was the main reason the Patriots defeated the British?

43. The will to fight and persevere

44. Where did patriot forces defeat a militia of Loyalists slaughtering them after they surrendered?

45. The Battle of King’s Mountain

46. Who led the Sons of Liberty

47. Samuel Adams

48. Who was the leader of British forces during the Battle of Bunker Hill?

49. William Howe

50. Who was the Prussian soldier who helped train Washington’s troops at Valley Forge?

51. Barron von Steuben

52. Who was the Hessian commander at Trenton?

53. Johann Rall

54. Who was sent to Boston to enforce the Writs of Assistance?

55. Thomas Gage

57. Which two men were in Europe negotiating with the French in order to gain the assistance in the War?

59. Benjamin Franklin and John Adams