20 pt 30 pt 40 pt 50 pt 10 pt 20 pt 30 pt 40 pt 50 pt 10 pt 20 pt 30 pt 40 pt 50 pt 10 pt 20 pt 30 pt 40 pt 50 pt 10 pt 20 pt 30 pt 40 pt 50 pt 10 pt “Declare the Causes” “We hold these Truths” Rebel Rousers and Loyalist Leaders Armchair General Turning Points

10 Points Colonial taxes were higher or lower than in “Mother England”

What was lower?

20 points Slogan used by Patriots to argue against taxes

What is “No taxation without representation”?

30 pts This event caused thousands of dollars in damage and major punishment from Great Britain

What is the Boston Tea Party?

40 pts Fearing that local farms were being destroyed and looted, they fired on British troops

Who were the Minutemen?

50 pts List three of Boston’s Tea Party punishments- also known as “The Intolerable Acts”

What are: closing Boston harbor, prohibiting town meetings, allowing trials in England and quartering troops ?

10 pts Primary author of the Declaration of Independence

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

20 pts Crime committed by the signers of the Declaration of Independence

What is treason?

30 pts Idea in the Declaration that was also used by Native Americans, African Americans and women to petition for better status

What is “all men are created equal”?

40 pts “HE” in the Declaration of Independence

Who is “King George’’?

50 pts The opening words of the Declaration of Independence

What is “When in the course of human events…”

10 pts Patriot who leads the Continental Army and later becomes our first president

Who was George Washington?

20 pts Major leader of Boston protests and colonial cartoon propaganda

Who was Paul Revere?

30 pts Percentage of the population in the colonies who were strong loyalists

What was 1/3 or 33%?

40 pts Frenchman who provided training to the Patriots during the winter at Valley Forge helping to mold them into an effective fighting force.

Who was the Marquis de Lafayette?

50 pts As Governor of Massachusetts, his house was raided and looted during the Stamp Act crisis

Who is Thomas Hutchinson?

10 pts Region where the war began.

What was New England?

20 pts Name given to united army of the colonies

What is the Continental Army?

30 pts Hired professional soldiers from modern day Germany- major advantage to British

Who are the Hessians?

40 pts Name the turning point of the Revolutionary War

What is the Battle of Saratoga?

DOUBLE JEOPARDY! Place your wager. Write it on the board.

50 pts Name the strategy that American forces excelled at that, along with foreign aid and training, finally helped them to win the war

What was guerilla warfare?

10 pts Battles that started the Revolutionary War.

What are Lexington and Concord?

20 pts Nation that became a colonial ally against Britain in the war

Who was France?

30 pts Unsuccessful colonial attempt to control the St. Lawrence Seaway and Canada

What are the battles of Quebec and Montreal (or March on Canada)?

40 pts Reason that the French and other countries started to provide the colonists with financial and military aid.

What was the colonial victory over the British at Saratoga?

50 pts This siege was the final nail in the British coffin and the last battle of the Revolutionary War

What was the Battle of Yorktown?