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Final Jeopardy Question Founding Principles Founding Fathers Alexis de Tocqueville Hodge Podge Mottos 10 20 30 40 Click and highlight the Category, then type in your own topic. Final Jeopardy Question

10 Point Question “All Men Are Created Equal” This Founding Principle allowed the passage of Suffrage Amendments and Civil Rights Acts. Back to the Game Board 10 Point Question

This Principle is protected in the Bill of Rights. Individual Rights This Principle is protected in the Bill of Rights. Back to the Game Board 20 Point Question

This Principle prevents the government from getting too powerful. Limited Government This Principle prevents the government from getting too powerful. Back to the Game Board 30 Point Question

This Principle helped create the three branches of our government. Balance of Power This Principle helped create the three branches of our government. Back to the Game Board 40 Point Question

He was a physician, writer, educator, and created the U.S. Mint. Benjamin Rush He was a physician, writer, educator, and created the U.S. Mint. Back to the Game Board 10 Point Question

John Hancock Representative from Massachusetts, President of the Continental Congress, first to sign the Declaration of Independence. Back to the Game Board 20 Point Question

30 Point Question John Jay He was an important member of the Continental Congress, helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolution. Back to the Game Board 30 Point Question

40 Point Question John Witherspoon He was an active clergyman, signed the Declaration of Independence, became President of Princeton University. Back to the Game Board 40 Point Question

10 Point Question Liberty This value is crucial to America’s success, states that individuals are free to pursue their own work. Back to the Game Board 10 Point Question

20 Point Question Egalitarianism This value crucial to America’s success, states there is no class distinction, that every man has the same opportunity to succeed or fail. Back to the Game Board 20 Point Question

Individualism This value crucial to America’s success, states hard work and labor are considered key to becoming successful. Back to the Game Board 30 Point Question

Populism This value crucial to America’s success, states that all individuals are allowed an opinion and are able to voice it. Back to the Game Board 40 Point Question

American Values According to Alexis de Tocqueville, these values reinforce and reward the spirit of hard work and money-making vs. other nations’ ideology of heredity and that a person is destined to remain in one social group. Back to the Game Board 10 Point Question

Laissez-Faire Hard work and money-making leads to success and the government does not interfere, defines this value described by Alexis de Tocqueville. Back to the Game Board 20 Point Question

The Constitution and Bill of Rights According to most U.S. citizens, the belief in these two documents bonds Americans together and gives the hope of liberty and a better future for themselves and their children. Back to the Game Board 30 Point Question

40 Point Question John Peter Muhlenberg This Founding Father was a clergy, an American Revolutionary War soldier, elected to the first U.S. Congress. Back to the Game Board 40 Point Question

This Latin term that means “Out of many, one” E Pluribus Unum This Latin term that means “Out of many, one” Back to the Game Board 10 Point Question

20 Point Question In God We Trust Even though this motto appeared on coins dating back to the 1860s, it became official until the 1950’s. Back to the Game Board 20 Point Question

30 Point Question E Pluribus Unum This motto symbolized the 13 original States uniting together to form one compact and represented body. Back to the Game Board 30 Point Question

40 Point Question In God We Trust This motto was made official in response to communism’s intolerance to religious freedom. Back to the Game Board 40 Point Question

Final Jeopardy Question This motto was never made official, but is generally accepted as a de facto motto. E Pluribus Unum