2. It’s Time For... Life in the 13 Colonies Jeopardy!

3. `Life in the 13 Colonies JEOPARDY’ $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Vocabulary FINAL JEOPARDY PeopleBig IdeasPlacesPot pourri

4. $100 In the south very large farms were called __________ What are plantations?

5. $200 a book filled with facts about many subjects is called______. What is an almanac?

6. $300 when a person writes about his or her own life it is called ____________ What is an autobiography?

7. $400 Rugged land near the Appalachian Mountains is called ___________. What is the Backcountry?

8. $500 The edge of a settled area, beyond which, lies unexplored wilderness is called _________. What is a frontier?

9. $100 Ben Franklin was well known as a scientist and __________. What is an inventor?

10. $200 To pay the price of their passage to the colonies many Europeans became ____________. What are indentured servants?

11. $300 Someone hired by a planter to make sure the slaves did all of their work was called ________ What is an overseer?

12. $400 Benjamin Franklin organized the worlds first ___________. What is volunteer Fire Department?

13. $500 People can start any business they want in the system known as ________________ What is Free Enterprise?

14. $100 He started the first public library in America Who is Ben Franklin?

15. $200 ships from New York and Boston crossed this ocean to reach Africa. What is the Atlantic Ocean?

16. $300 Ships leaving the West Indies traveled in this direction to New York What is west?

17. $400 The English colonies were located on which continent? What is North America?

18. $500 The trip from the West Indies to Boston was about this far. What is 1,500 miles?

19. $100 The economy of the south grew mainly due to _________. What is slavery?

20. $200 The second leg of the triangular trade was called ___________ What is “the Middle Passage?

21. $300 This was one of the major things exported from South Carolina to England in the early 1700s What is Indigo?

22. $400 What effect did the slave trade have on the Africans who came to America? What is they lost all of their freedom?

23. $500 A climograph gives you this information.” What are changes in temperature or precipitation?

24. $100 The number of children in Ben Franklin’s family What is 17 ?

25. $200 This was Franklin’s newspaper What is the Pennsylvania Gazette?

26. $300 By 1700 colonists were moving to the backcountry because ______ What is wealthy planters owned most of the coastal land?

27. $400 southern planters began using slaves instead of indentured servants because _____ What is they could make more money using slaves?

28. $500 Ships captains who worked the Triangular Trade sailed between New England, Africa, and __________ What are the West Indies.?

29. FINAL JEOPARDY What cargo did ships carry from Africa to the West Indies? WHAT are slaves?