1. The American Revolution Jeopardy!
Britain vs. America
Officially Breaking Away
Shoot! Early Battles of the Revolution
Shoot! Later Battles of the Revolution
100
200
300
400
500

2. 100 – Britain vs. America Answer:
The Americans bore this advantage with George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

3. 200 – Britain vs. America Answer:
This British disadvantage would eventually cause the British army towards humiliating defeats.

4. 300 – Britain vs. America Answer:
This Colonial weakness left the revolutionary movement without any real authority to do anything a government would do in running a war effort.

5. 400 – Britain vs. America Answer:
Despite the economic hardships that bestowed upon the American colonists, these individuals did rather well financial during the war.

6. 500 – Britain vs. America Answer:
This English political party secretly desired the Americans to be independent because they felt the American rights as Englishmen were trampled and because the war hurt Britain economically.

7. 100 – Britain vs. America
Question:
What is outstanding Leadership?

8. 200 – Britain vs. America
Question:
What are second-rate generals?

9. 300 – Britain vs. America Question:
What is the Second Continental Congress?

10. 400 – Britain vs. America Question:
Who are American profiteers/privateers?

11. 500 – Britain vs. America
Question:
What was the Whig party?

12. 100 – Officially Breaking Away
Answer:
He wrote Common Sense.

13. 200 – Officially Breaking Away
Answer:
One reason as to why it was written, was to explain to the rest of the world why the Colonies had revolted against Great Britain.

14. 300 – Officially Breaking Away
Answer:
Even though Parliament passed the Acts by which the colonists objected, the Declaration of Independence placed the blame on this person.

15. 400 – Officially Breaking Away
Answer:
It was a necessary component for a republic to be successful.

16. 500 – Officially Breaking Away
Answer:
Thomas Paine argued that this is where all government officials should derive their authority from.

17. 100 – Officially Breaking Away
Question:
Who is Thomas Paine?

18. 200 – Officially Breaking Away
Question:
What is the Declaration of Independence?

19. 300 – Officially Breaking Away
Question:
Who is King George III?

20. 400 – Officially Breaking Away
Question:
What are individuals sacrificing their own-self interest for the public good?

21. 500 – Officially Breaking Away
Question:
What is popular consent/the people?

22. 100 – Shoot! Early Battles Answer:
This final battle ended the siege of Boston by colonial patriots. Even though the British won, it seemed more like a defeat.

23. 200 – Shoot! Early Battles Answer:
It was the main reason why Washington was chosen by the Continental Congress to general the American Army.

24. 300 – Shoot! Early Battles Answer:
This battle saved the Colonial war effort in December of 1776.

25. 400 – Shoot! Early Battles Answer:
This was the basic strategy of the British in 1777.

26. 500 – Shoot! Early Battles Answer:
They came after the American victory at Saratoga in 1777.

27. 100 – Shoot! Early Battles Question:
What is Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill)?

28. 200 – Shoot! Early Battles Question:
What is unify the colonial effort/they trusted him?

29. 300 – Shoot! Early Battles
Question:
What is the Battle of Trenton?

30. 400 – Shoot! Early Battles Question:
What is isolate New England by seizing the Hudson River from the North and South?

31. 500 – Shoot! Early Battles
Question:
Who were the French?

32. 100 – Shoot! Later Battles Answer:
He helped secure the American claims to the Ohio River Valley.

33. 200 – Shoot! Later Battles Answer:
It was the main strategy engaged by General Greene to thwart off Lord Cornwallis.

34. 300 – Shoot! Later Battles Answer:
They were the three regions by which the Revolution war developed, in chronological order.

35. 400 – Shoot! Later Battles Answer:
It is why Cornwallis had to surrender at Yorktown.

36. 500 – Shoot! Later Battles Answer:
It was the greatest concession the British gave the American colonists from the Treaty of Paris.

37. 100 – Shoot! Later Battles
Question:
Who is George Rogers Clark?

38. 200 – Shoot! Later Battles
Question:
What is the strategy of delay?

39. 300 – Shoot! Later Battles Question:
What is New England, the middle colonies, and in the south?

40. 400 – Shoot! Later Battles Question:
What is being surrounded by American and French forces on land, and blocked off by the French navy by sea?

41. 500 – Shoot! Later Battles Question:
What was British recognition of the existence of the United States as an independent nation?

42. Final Jeopardy
He was the person who gave George Washington the salted fish.
Finish the statement.
Write it down and turn it in.

43. Final Jeopardy
Answer:
Who is John Hancock?.