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BattlesDecl.Indep. Docu ments Cause or Effect Famous People Potpo- urri Click HERE for Double JeopardyHERE

THIS BATTLE WAS THE MAJOR TURNING POINT FOR THE AMERICANS Battles $100

Saratoga Back to Game

THIS WAS THE FIRST MAJOR BATTLE BETWEEN AMERICAN AND BRITISH FORCES Battles for $200

Bunker Hill Back to Game

IN THIS BATTLE THE FRENCH NAVY HELPED THE AMERICANS WIN BY PREVENTING THE BRITISH FROM ESCAPING. Battles for $300

Yorktown Back to Game

THESE TWO LOCATIONS ARE WHERE THE FIRST SHOTS OF THE WAR WERE FIRED. Battles for $400

Lexington and Concord Back to Game

THIS WAS WASHINGTON’S FIRST VICTORY AND KEPT HIS ARMY ALIVE DURING THE WINTER OF Battles for $500

Back to Game Trenton

WE CELEBRATE OUR INDEPENDENCE DAY IN REMEMBRANCE OF THIS DAY AND YEAR Declaring Independence for $100

July 4, 1776 Back to Game

THIS MAN DRAFTED THE ACTUAL DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ITSELF Declaring Independence for $200

Thomas Jefferson Back to Game

THIS IS THE FIRST OF THE FOUR PARTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Declaring Independence for $300

Preamble Back to Game

Declaring Independence $400 ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION, ALL PEOPLE ARE BORN WITH THESE THREE RIGHTS.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness Back to Game

Declaring Independence $500 ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, THIS IS THE MAIN JOB OF GOVERNMENT.

To protect our rights Back to Game

HE WAS COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE COLONIAL ARMY Famous People for $100

GEORGE WASHINGTON Back to Game

HE LED THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS IN THEIR CAPTURE OF FORT TICONDEROGA Famous People for $200

Ethan Allen Back to Game

Famous People for $300 THOUGH HE ONCE FOUGHT BRAVELY FOR THE AMERICANS, THIS MAN LATER BECAME AN INFAMOUS TRAITOR TO THE PATRIOT CAUSE

Benedict Arnold Back to Game

Famous People for $400 THIS PRESIDENT OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS WAS THE FIRST TO SIGN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. HIS SIGNATURE WAS ALSO THE LARGEST.

John Hancock Back to Game

Famous People for $500 THIS MAN SPENT MOST OF THE WAR IN EUROPE TRYING TO ENLIST THE HELP OF THE FRENCH.

Back to Game Benjamin Franklin

Documents for $100 JOHN HANCOCK WAS THE FIRST TO SIGN IT ON JULY 4, BUT THE COPY NOW ON DISPLAY WAS ACTUALLY SIGNED ON AUGUST 2

Declaration of Independence Back to Game

Documents for $200 THIS DOCUMENT OFFICIALLY ENDED THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND FORCED GREAT BRITAIN TO RECOGNIZE AMERICA AS AN INDEPENDENT NATION

Treaty of Paris, 1783 Back to Game

THOMAS PAINE WROTE THIS TO TELL COLONISTS WHY THEY SHOULD BREAK AWAY FROM ENGLAND Documents for $300

Common Sense Back to Game

Documents for $400 THIS DOCUMENT WAS SENT BY THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS TO KING GEORGE III AS A LAST EFFORT AT PEACE.

The Olive Branch Petition Back to Game

Documents for $500 GEORGE WASHINGTON READ THIS THOMAS PAINE WORK ALOUD TO HIS TROOPS AT VALLEY FORGE TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO STAY THE COURSE OVER THE HARD WINTER

The Crisis Back to Game

Cause or Effect for $100 AS AN EFFECT OF THE CAPTURE OF FORT TICONDEROGA BY THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS, THE COLONIAL ARMY MANAGED TO SEIZE THESE INVALUABLE ARMAMENTS

Cannons and Gunpowder Back to Game

Cause or Effect for $200 THIS BEST SELLING PAMPHLET CAUSED MANY AMERICANS TO THINK VERY SERIOUSLY ABOUT DECLARING INDEPENDENCE FROM GREAT BRITAIN.

Common Sense Back to Game

Cause or Effect for $300 THIS VICTORY PROVED TO THE FRENCH THAT THE AMERICANS COULD WIN AND CAUSED THEM TO GIVE AID

Saratoga Back to Game

Cause or Effect for $400 BECAUSE OF THEIR LOOTING THE AMERICAN FORCES THAT WENT TO CANADA UNDER MONTGOMERY AND ARNOLD WERE UNABLE TO ENLIST THE HELP OF THIS GROUP

French Canadians Back to Game

Cause or Effect for $500 AS A RESULT OF THIS BATTLE, WASHINGTON WAS FORCED TO FLEE NEW YORK AND LEAVE IT IN THE HANDS OF THE BRITISH.

Battle of Long Island Back to Game

Potpourri for $100 THE UNKNOWN SHOT THAT STARTED THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR WAS NICKNAMED THIS.

Potpourri for $100 Back to Game THE SHOT HEART ‘ROUND THE WORLD

Potpourri for $200 THIS SOLDIER WROTE ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES DURING THE WINTER AT VALLEY FORGE.

Potpourri for $200 Back to Game Joseph Plumb Martin

Potpourri for $300 THESE MERCENARY SOLDIERS WERE FROM GERMANY.

Potpourri for $300 Back to Game HESSIANS

Potpourri for $400 THIS FRENCH COMMANDER BROUGHT TROOPS TO AMERICA AND HELPED WASHINGTON TRAIN AND LEAD HIS ARMY.

Potpourri for $400 Back to Game MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

Potpourri for $500 THESE WERE THE SUPPOSED "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" OF CAPTURED SPY NATHAN HALE.

Potpourri for $500 Back to Game I ONLY REGRET THAT I HAVE BUT ONE LIFE TO GIVE FOR MY COUNTRY.

Britain or America Patriot or Loyalist Foreigners Geography Oh, Say Can You “C”? Stupid Answers

THIS SIDE HAD A STRONG NAVY Britain or America $200

Britain Back to Game

THIS SIDE WAS DEFENDING ITS HOMELAND Britain or America $400

America Back to Game

THIS SIDE HAD MORE EXPERIENCED SOLDIERS AND GENERALS Britain or America $600

Britain Back to Game

THIS SIDE HAD A MORE MONEY AND RESOURCES Britain or America $800

British Back to Game

MANY ON THIS SIDE ALREADY OWNED RIFLES AND KNEW HOW TO USE THEM Britain or America $1000

Back to Game America

"WE COLONISTS SHOULD BE GREATFUL FOR BRITISH RULE AND PROTECTION." Patriot or Loyalist $200

Loyalist Back to Game

"THE KING IS VIOLATING THE RIGHTS OF BRITISH CITIZENS." Patriot or Loyalist $400

Patriot Back to Game

"IT'S TOO LATE TO APOLOGIZE... IT'S TOO LATE." Patriot or Loyalist $600

Patriot Back to Game

Patriot or Loyalist $800 "IT IS ONLY FAIR THAT THE COLONIES HELP PAY FOR THE DEBT OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR."

Loyalist Back to Game

Patriot or Loyalist $1000 "TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION IS TYRANNY!"

Patriot Back to Game

GEORGE WASHINGTON COMMANDED THIS ARMY. Oh, Say Can You “C”? $200

Continental Back to Game

THIS THOMAS PAINE PAMPHLET EXPLAINED WHY COLONISTS SHOULD BREAK AWAY FROM GREAT BRITAIN. Oh, Say Can You “C”? $400

Common Sense Back to Game

Oh, Say Can You “C”? $600 WASHINGTON HAD THIS READ TO HIS MEN TO TELL THEM NOT TO BE "SUNSHINE SOLDIERS"

The Crisis Back to Game

Oh, Say Can You “C”? $800 THIS SPY RING HELPED WASHINGTON KEEP AN EYE ON THE BRITISH IN NEW YORK CITY.

Culper Gang Back to Game

Oh, Say Can You “C”? 1000 THIS BRITISH GENERAL SURRENDERED IN 1781, ENDING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

Back to Game Charles Cornwallis

Foreigners $200 THIS FRENCHMAN HELPED WASHINGTON TOWARDS THE END OF THE WAR AND DURING THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN

Marquis de Lafayette Back to Game

Foreigners $400 THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WAS SENT TO THIS KING.

King George III Back to Game

THIS ENGLISHMAN SYPATHIZED WITH THE AMERICAN CAUSE AND WROTE A PAMPLET TO CONVINCE COLONISTS TO BREAK AWAY. Foreigners $600

Thomas Paine Back to Game

THIS BRITISH GENERAL WANTED TO CUT THE COLONIES IN HALF BY CAPTURING ALBANY BUT LOST HIS ENTIRE ARMY AT SARATOGA. Foreigners $800

John Burgoyne Back to Game

THIS POLISH ENGINEER HELPED DESIGN THE DEFENSES AT SARATOGA Foreigners $1000

Thaddeus Kosciusko Back to Game

Geography $200 THIS MODERN DAY STATE CONTAINS THE SITES OF THE BATTLES OF SARATOGA AND LONG ISLAND.

New York Back to Game

Geography $400 THIS EUROPEAN NATION HELPED THE AMERICANS DURING THE WAR AND HOSTED THE SIGINING OF THE TREATY TO END THE REVOLUTION.

France Back to Game

Geography $600 NOT ONLY DID GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THOMAS JEFFERSON COME FROM THIS COLONY, IT WAS ALSO THE SITE OF THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN.

Virginia Back to Game

Geography $800 THIS IS THE MODERN EUROPEAN NATION WHERE HESSIAN MERCENARIES CAME FROM.

Germany Back to Game

Geography $1000 THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS WOULD HAVE BEEN FOUND IN THIS COLONY.

Pennsylvania Back to Game

Stupid Answers $200 THESE AMERICAN SOLDIERS WERE MEN THAT COULD BE READY IN A MINUTE'S NOTICE

Back to Game Minutemen

Stupid Answers $400 VERMONT, THE GREEN MOUNTAIN STATE, IS WHERE THESE BOYS CAME FROM.

Back to Game Green Mountain Boys

Stupid Answers $600 THIS DOCUMENT DECLARED THAT THE COLONIES WERE INDEPENDENT FROM BRITAIN.

Declaration of Independence Back to Game

Stupid Answers $800 BRITAIN FORMALLY RECOGNIZED AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE WITH THE SIGNING OF THIS TREATY IN PARIS IN THE YEAR 1783.

The Treaty of Paris, 1783 Back to Game

Stupid Answers $1000 THIS WAS A STRATEGY USED BY THE BRITISH NAVY TO BLOCK OFF AID FROM COMING INTO ANY AMERICAN PORTS.

Blockade Back to Game