The American Revolution 6 Jeopardy Template

The French and Indian War	Causes of the Revolution	The Colonists Declare Independence	Americans Win the Revolution	This and That
100 What were the two sides in the French and Indian War? The French and Indians versus the British and Colonists	100 What was salutary neglect? British policy in the early 1700s that allowed the colonies virtual self-rule as long as Great Britain was gaining economically	100 What was the Second Continental Congress? Assembly of delegates representing every colony that met in 1775 in Philadelphia following the Battles of Lexington and Concord	100 What is a mercenary? Professional soldier who is paid to fight in a foreign army	100 What was the Albany Plan of Union? Benjamin Franklin's 1754 proposal to form one government for a group of Britain's colonies in North America
200 Who was George Washington? A young Virginian who led British troops against the French in 1754.	200 What was the Stamp Act? 1765 law passed by Parliament that required colonists to pay taxes on printed materials	200 What was Common Sense? This pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine in 1776, had a profound influence on the American Revolution.	200 What is the Battle of Trenton? 1776 Revolutionary War battle in New Jersey, won by the Continental Army, where Washington's army ambushes the Hessian mercenaries	200 What were committees of correspondence? Network of local groups that informed colonists of British measures and the opposition to them in the years before the Revolutionary War
300 What was Fort Duquesne? French fort captured by the British in 1758-59	300 Who were the Sons of Liberty? Organization of colonists formed in opposition to the Stamp Act and other British laws and taxes	300 What is The Declaration of Independence? Document drawn up by the Second Continental Congress, and approved in 1776, that announced American independence and explained the reasons for it	300 What is the Battle of Saratoga? 1777 Revolutionary War battle considered to be the turning point in the war because the Patriot win convinced the French to ally officially with the United States	300 What was the Boston Tea Party? Protest against British taxes in which Bostonian protestors dumped tea into the harbor on December 16, 1773
400 What was the Treaty of Paris 1763? The treaty that spelled out the terms of surrender between the defeated French and the triumphant British	400 What were nonimportation agreements? Colonial consumer boycotts of British exports in response to taxes passed by Parliament	400 What is a republic? Form of government in which officials are elected by the people	400 What is the Battle of Kings Mountain? 1780 Revolutionary War battle in South Carolina in which Patriots defeated a Loyalist militia	400 What were the Intolerable Acts? American name for the Coercive Acts, which Parliament passed in 1774 to control the colonies
500 What was Pontiac's Rebellion? Uprising in 1763 by American Indians in the Great Lakes region	500 What was the Boston Massacre? Incident on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers killed five colonists in Boston	500 What are natural rights? Universal rights, such as life and liberty, that derive from nature rather than from government, according to philosophers	500 What is Yorktown? Site in Virginia where, in 1781, General Cornwallis's British forces surrendered to General Washington	500 What is manumission? the act of freeing someone from slavery

The American Revolution

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