Jeopardy! ActsQuotesLeadersEventsPlaces Potpourri

Acts-100 This act was an internal tax on licenses, almanacs, newspapers, playing cards, and other documents. What was the Stamp Act? BACK

Acts This was the most effective method used by colonists to change British tax policy. What was a boycott? BACK

Acts These acts were passed as an effect of the Boston Tea Party. What was the Coercive Acts or Intolerable Acts? BACK

Acts This Act gave the British government absolute power to govern the colonies. What was the Declaratory Act? BACK

Acts The Sons of Liberty formed as a reaction to this act. What was the Stamp Act? BACK

Quotes-100 Patrick Henry said, “I know not what course others may take. But as for me give me liberty or give me death.” What does this mean? He would die for the cause of freedom BACK

Quotes-200 What battle was Ralph Waldo Emerson referring to when he wrote Concord Hymn, “By the rude bridge….the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world. What was the battle of Lexington and Concord? BACK

Quotes-300 What was the rallying cry for the colonists after they were taxed so heavily? “Taxation without representation is tyranny” BACK

Quotes-400 This is the battle where this command was made. “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.” What is Bunker Hill? BACK

Quotes-500 Who might have said this? “Even the distance at which the Almighty has placed England and America is a strong and natural proof that the authority of the one over the other was never the design of heaven.” Who is Thomas Paine? BACK

Leaders-100 Sam Adams helped form two important colonist’s organizations. What were the Sons of Liberty and the Committees of Correspondence? BACK

Leaders-200 He defended the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre. Who was John Adams? BACK

Leaders-300 He was appointed Governor of Massachusetts after the Intolerable Acts were passed. Who was General Thomas Gage? BACK

Leaders-400 He believed the writing of the Declaration of Independence was his greatest accomplishment. It was done in this year. Who is Thomas Jefferson and what is 1776? BACK

Leaders-500 The Second Continental Congress chose this man as the Commander of the Continental Army. Who is George Washington? BACK

Events-100 This meeting was called to authorize the printing of paper money to pay the troops and pick a Commander-in-Chief. What was the Second Continental Congress? BACK

Events-200 Because of the Stamp Act this meeting was the first meeting after the French and Indian War where all the colonies, except Georgia met to discuss a plan of action. What was the Stamp Act Congress? BACK

Events-300 John Hancock signed is big letters his name on this occasion. What was the signing of the Declaration of Independence? BACK

Events-400 About the time Parliament was considering repealing the Townshend Acts, bloodshed occurred at this event. What was the Boston Massacre? BACK

Events-500 This event occurred as an effect of the monopoly on British tea. What is the Boston Tea Party? BACK

Places-100 The British were trying to find and capture Sam Adams and John Hancock here. What is Lexington ? BACK

Places-200 This was the first battle of the American Revolution Where is Lexington? BACK

Places-300 The Declaration of Independence was written and first read in this city. What is Philadelphia? BACK

Places-400 Most of the early military occupation took place in these two cities. What were Boston and New York? BACK

Places-500 The early government of the colonies was created and run from this city? What is Philadelphia? BACK

Potpourri-100 The geographic feature King George III referred to in the Proclamation of What are the Appalachian Mountains? BACK

Potpourri -200 The purpose of the Writs of Assistance was to stop what? Smuggling BACK

Potpourri -300 The Declaration of Independence was based on the writings in these two documents. What were the English Bill of Rights and the Magna Carta? BACK

Potpourri -400 These two cousins were patriots who viewed their role differently. One was a fiery orator and the other a voice of reason. Who were Sam Adams and John Adams? BACK

Potpourri -500 This man from Virginia, introduced a key resolution on June 7, 1776 calling for “Free and Independent states” and that “all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is totally dissolved. Who was Richard Henry Lee? BACK