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Welcome to Jeopardy! The rules to this game are simple! There will be four groups of five. Each group will be given 2 minutes to discuss and answer the question. If the group gets the question wrong, the answer will still be open to the other groups. Good Luck! You may choose from $100-$500 through 6 categories! The categories include:
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Rules: You will be given information and important facts involving or relating to a place of an event. This information by be a date, describing, or even the people involved. You will need to correctly answer by using the “What happened at _____?” format.
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Rules: You will be given information about a certain important person to Texas. This may be a soldier, a leader, a Mexican, a Texan, etc. You will carefully read the information and/or facts about him/her and answer in the “Who was ______?” format
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Rules: You will be given certain information about a specific group involved with the Texas Revolution. This may be the people within the group, the roles, and/or the effects on Texas. You will answer with the “What was ______ ?”
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Rules: You will be given a series of facts relating to an important battle in the Texas Revolution. This may include people, places, and/or the cause and effects. You will answer in the “What was the _______” format.
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Rules: The rules to this portion of the game are quite simple. You will be given a quote from a famous person involved in the Texas Revolution. You will need to state the person who said it and what he/she meant or the importance in saying it. His quote refers to him winning the Texas Revolution Jeopardy.”
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Rules: You will be given questions that you will have to answer. The topic of the questions are at random. However, they will relate to the Texas Revolution. The format for this column is just to answer the question (no complete sentences are needed unless asked for). Ex: “Who is the world champion of Jeopardy?” Bob the Great
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1-100 This is where the Consultation was held. The Texans met here on November 3, 1835.
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1-100A 1 - 100 What happened at San Felipe?
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1-200 This is where the first conflict between Mexican and Texans colonists on October 2, 1835. This is also called, “Lexington of Texas”
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1-200A 1 - 100 What happened at Gonzales?
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1-300 This is where Colonel Frank W. Johnson, Dr. James Grant, and Colonel James W. Fannin were authorized to attack.
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1-300A 1 - 100 What happened at the Mexican city of Matamoros, near the mouth of the Rio Grande?
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1-400 This is where Santa Anna’s army arrived on February 23
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1-400A 1 - 100 What happened in San Antonio ?
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1-500 This is where Johnson and Grant each had about 50 men near.
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1-500A 1 - 100 What happened at San Patricio?
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2-100 1 - 100 This person was chosen o be the commander of the regular army, but was not given authority over the volunteer army still camped at San Antonio.
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2-100A 1 - 100 Who was Sam Houston?
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s 2-200 This person was called upon to take command of the 300 Texans assembled to Gonzales
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2-200A 1 - 100 Who was Stephen F. Austin?
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2-300 These two person were leaders who favored an immediate declaration of independence from Mexico, even if it meant war.
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2-300A 1 - 100 Who was William H. Wharton and William B. Travis?
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2-400 These two people were chosen by the Consultation as governor and lieutenant governor. These two people were members of the War Party. (Also state where they came from…)
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2-400A 1 - 100 Who was Henry Smith of Brazoria and James W. Robinson of Nacogdoches?
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2-500 This two people were the native Texans who were members of the Convention of 1836.
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2-500A 1 - 100 Who was Jose Antonio Navarro and Jose Francisco Ruiz?
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3-100 1 - 100 This group was led by Santa Anna and had out-numbered the Texans.
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3-100A 1 - 100 What was the Mexican Army?
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3-200 This group was local groups sharing political and military information. This sprang up to keep the colonists informed.
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1 - 100 What is the Committees of Correspondence?
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3-300 This group favored the Consultation. This group was led by settlers who had been disappointed when the Mexican government stopped issuing contracts for lands in Texas.
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3-300A 1 - 100 What was the War Party?
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3-400 This group feared that the Consultation might cause trouble.
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3-400A 1 - 100 What was the Peace Party?
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3-500 This group came to power in 1829. It put an end to the independence acts and issued regulations to bring states and provinces of Mexico more under the authority of the national government
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3-500A 1 - 100 What was the Centralist Party?
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4-100 1 - 100 This is the famous 13 day battle. This is where 250 defenders died.
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4-100A 1 - 100 What was the Battle of the Alamo?
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4-200 This battle is where Texans believed that there were mules carrying bags of silver to pay Cos’s soldiers at San Antonio.
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4-200A 1 - 100 What was the Grass Fight?
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4-300 This battle was where 7 Texans were killed and 60 were wounded during the fighting.
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4-300A 1 - 100 What was the Battle of Coleto?
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4-400 This is the battle where they played the popular tune of the day, “Will You Come to the Bower?”
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1 - 100 What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
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4-500 Senora Francita Alavez helped care for the Texans during their imprisonment after this battle.
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4-500A 1 - 100 What was the Battle of Goliad?
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5-100 1 - 100 “Victory or Death!”
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5-100A 1 - 100 William Barret Travis wrote this in his letter to the People of Texas and all Americans. This quote means that he was determined and willing to die like a soldier in the honor of his country, Texas.
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“Remember the Alamo!”
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5-200A 1 - 100 The Texans in Houston’s army cried this. This quote became the battle cry for Houston’s army. It inspired other Texans to carry on the struggle.
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5-300 “War is our only recourse. There is no other remedy. We must defend our rights, ourselves, and our country by force of arms.”
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5-300A 1 - 100 Stephen F. Austin said this is urged the people to unite. He had said this when he had believed that the time had come to act.
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“His voice is still ringing in my old deaf ears as he repeatedly admonished us. Keep under cover boys and reserve your fire; we haven’t a man to spare.”
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5-400A 1 - 100 Noah Smithwick, a diarist, had wrote this quote after the Battle of Concepcion. This is describing Bowie’s leadership.
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5-500 “The enemy are laughing you to scorn. You must fight them. You must retreat no farther. The country excepts you to fight. The salvation of the country depends on you doing so.”
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5-500A 1 - 100 This was in a letter President David G. Burnet wrote to Sam Houston urging him to attack Santa Anna.
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6-100 1 - 100 Who rather serve as a private among the Alamo volunteers than a command in the regular army by Travis?
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6-100A 1 - 100 David Crockett
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6-200 What is the Runaway Scrape?
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6-200A 1 - 100 This is the event where hundreds of families gathered their belongings and headed east towards the Sabine River when they heard of Houston’s decision to continue the retreat. This panicked the families between Colorado and Brazos Rivers.
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6-300 What and who renamed the presidio at Goliad in February of 1836 in preparation for the Mexican attack?
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6-300A 1 - 100 James Fannin renamed it Fort Defiance.
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6-400 Who lived to be 113?
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6-400A 1 - 100 Andrea C. Villanueva
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6-500 Fill in the blanks of the Declaration of Independence. “The people of Texas,__________, appealing to a candid world for the necessities of our condition, ________________________Mexican nation has forever ended; and that the people of Texas ____________, __________,and ___________________
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6-500A 1 - 100 “The people of Texas, in solemn convention assembled, appealing to a candid world for the necessities of our condition, do hereby resolve and declare that our political connection with the Mexican nation has forever ended; and that the people of Texas do now constitute a free, sovereign, and independent republic.”
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