Revolutionary Jeopardy #1

A Acts 100 200 300 400 500 B Battles 100 200 300 400 500 C People 100 200 300 400 500 D Vocab. 100 200 300 400 500

A100 Question: What act lowered the tax on molasses? Answer: Sugar Act

A200 Question: What act taxed paper, paint, tea, lead, and glass? Answer: Townshend Acts

A300 Question: What act taxed paper products? Answer: Stamp Act

A400 Question: What act allowed the British East India Company to not pay taxes? Answer: Tea Act

A500 Question: What acts closed the port of Boston, cancelled town meeting and increase the presence of British soldiers? Answer: Intolerable Acts

B100 Question: What was the first battle of the American Revolution? Answer: Lexington & Concord

B200 Question: What was the turning point of the American Revolution? Who came to help? Answer: Saratoga, French and Spanish

B300 Question: What battle were the Patriots told not to shoot unless they could see the whites of the British eyes? Answer: Battle of Bunker Hill

B400 Question: Where did Washington spend a terrible winter with his troops? Answer: Valley Forge

B500 Question: What was the last battle of the American Revolution when Cornwallis surrendered? What is significant about it? Answer: Battle of Yorktown, Virginia

C100 Question: Who was the woman who took water to the soldiers during battle? Answer: Molly Pitcher or Molly Ludwig Hayes

C200 Question: Who was the 1st to give his life for the American Revolution? Answer: Crispus Attucks

C300 Question: Who used poetry to influence people to support independence and wrote one of the earliest histories about the Revolutionary War? Answer: Mercy Otis Warren

C400 Question: Who wrote “Poor Richard’s Almanac” and bought the ship the “Bonhomme Richard”? Answer: Benjamin Franklin

C500 Question: Who was an enslaved African American recruited by Marquis de Lafayette to be a spy for the Continental Army? Answer: James Armistead

D100 What do you call a place you store weapons or ammunition? Answer: Arsenal

D200 What is information used to help or harm a group or movement? Answer: propaganda

D300 What is refusing to obey laws that you consider unfair without being violent? Answer: civil disobedience

D400 What was it called when you made goods from raw materials on a large scale? Answer: Manufacturing

D500 What was an economic theory that a nations power was based on its wealth. Answer: Mercantilism