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Tie Breaker…

Test your knowledge of historical events with this Jeopardy-style game. Explore topics such as English kings, revolutions, and wars. Work in pairs or groups, and earn points for correct answers. Can you become the history champion?

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Tie Breaker…

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  1. Tie Breaker… • When is Bastille Day? July 14th

  2. Rules of Jeopardy • Everyone will work in pairs or groups of 3, with one recording paper for each group. • Your recording paper should have your names at the top and a table that contains , the category of the question, the point value, the answer and the total point for the team. (see example) This table must be turned in at the end of class… • The team with the most points wins…. A homework pass • If anyone should shout out an answer then everyone in the class will not be eligible to receive the points for the question And your group will lose 50 points • How the points add up • Correct answers add the assigned point value to your total score, incorrect answer subtract that point value from your score…

  3. Powerpoint Jeopardy

  4. Which English king lost his head and tried to be an absolutist ruler? Category 1 – 10 points Charles I

  5. Who ruled during the Commonwealth? • Oliver Cromwell Category 1 – 20 points

  6. Why was the Glorious Revolution glorious? -Peaceful change of monarch (no one died) Category 1 – 30 points

  7. Who were the 2 sides in the English Civil War? - Category 1 – 40 points Parliamentarians (Roundheads) vs. Royalists (Cavaliers)

  8. What documents sets out specific liberties that the king could not infringe upon? • Petition of Rights • Category 1 – 50 points

  9. Who were the Philosophes? - Enlightenment writers and thinkers Category 2 – 10 points

  10. Who believed that if a ruler becomes a tyrant you can overthrow that monarch? Category 2 – 20 points Locke

  11. What were monarchs who embraced some enlightenment ideas known as? • Enlightened Despots • Category 2 – 30 points

  12. Who put together the Encyclopedia? • - Denis Diderot • Category 2 – 40 points

  13. Author of Candide, a Satirical play? • - Voltaire • Category 2 – 50 points

  14. What US document protects individual liberties? Category 3 – 10 points The Bill of Rights

  15. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence and what year was it written in? *10 extra points if you can tell me what Ben Franklin wanted the national bird/ symbol of the US to be? • Jefferson, 1776 • The Turkey Category 3 – 20 points

  16. What king did colonists revolt against claiming he had become a tyrant? Category 3 – 30 points King George III

  17. What Enlightenment thinker inspired the three branches of government to preserve a balance of power? • Montesquieu • Category 3 – 40 points

  18. When did the Treaty of Paris get signed… officially giving the US it’s freedom? • 1783 • Category 3 – 50 points

  19. What group, and what person, oversaw the Terror? • Category 4 – 10 points • The Committee of Public Safety & • Robespierre

  20. What were the three Estates? - Social and political system in France, 1st = clergy, 2nd = nobles and 3rd = 97% of the population (everyone else) Category 4 – 20 points

  21. What created a Constitutional Monarchy? -The Declaration of the Rights of Man Category 4 – 30 points

  22. Where did members of the Third Estate, calling themselves the National Assembly, vow to create a new Constitution & change France? Category 4 – 40 points - Tennis Courts at Versailles (The Tennis Court Oath)

  23. Louis XIV had to call the Estates General together because the French treasury was short of money. What two wars fought overseas was Louis XV and Louis XIV involved in that put the country so far into debt? Category 4 – 50 points 7 years war (French & Indian War) & The American Revolution

  24. What battle proved to be Napoleon's final defeat? - Waterloo Category 5 – 10 points

  25. What group of 5 people was Napoleon made a part of after the Terror? - The Directory Category 5 – 20 points

  26. What Naval Battle did Napoleon lose to the British. Category 5 – 30 points Battle of Trafalgar

  27. Where did Napoleon die? • St. Helena • Category 5 – 40 points

  28. What was the name of Napoleon’s plan to beat the British? Category 5 – 50 points The Continental System

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