History Alive! Assessment 5, 6, & 7 Jeopardy

History Alive!Assessment 5, 6, & 7Jeopardy

Vocabulary Early Battles Before 1763 Leaders British Actions $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500

Vocabulary for $100 • To take back or cancel out a law

Vocabulary for $200 • This person is guilty of treason or being disloyal to their government

Vocabulary for $300 • A formal agreement between nations

Vocabulary for $400 • A small army made up of ordinary citizens who are available to fight in an emergency (like the American colonists)

Vocabulary $500 • A professional soldier who fights for anyone who will pay them.

Early Battles for $100 • The first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired here as the British attempted to locate hidden stores of weapons and gunpowder

Early Battles for $200 • This battle is often named after the wrong hill--it actually occurred on Breed’s Hill

Early Battles for $300 • The British learned that Americans were willing to fight for their freedom when they faced militias in these 2 towns

Early Battles for $400 • By surrounding the British with cannons from the hills of Dorchester Heights, the colonists drove the British out of this city.

Early Battles for $500 • This British general attempted to find the hidden weapons in Lexington & Concorde

Before 1763 for $100 • This group of American colonists believed they had the right to govern themselves.

Before 1763 $200 • During the 1750’s Britain and the colonists fought against the French and their Indian allies in this war

Before 1763 for $300 • American Colonists who felt they should remain loyal to the king

Before 1763 for $400 • This war caused the Ohio Valley to open to settlement by the colonists and removed the Native Americans

Before 1763 for $500 • One of the reasons the colonies experienced rapid growth between the mid-1600’s and 1763

Leaders for $100 • The British King who ignored the colonists’ attempts to resolve their disagreements

Leaders for $200 • Before leading the colonists in the American Revolution, he captured Fort Duquesne as a British army officer

Leaders for $300 • This man wrote several inspiring pamplets to encourage the colonists, including Common Sense and The Crisis

Leaders for $400 • The author of the Declaration of Independence

Leaders for $500 • The British general who surrendered at Yorktown

British Actions $100 • Many Americans felt the Proclamation on 1763 was an act of tyranny because it attempted to ______________________.

British Actions for $200 • A law passed in 1765 requiring a stamp be purchased for every piece of paper irritated colonists who said the British Parliament had not right to tax them.

British Actions for $300 • These taxes, nicknamed after the British leader known as “Champagne Charlie” placed duties on glass, paint, paper and tea. The colonists opposed them because they had no representation in the British government.

British Actions for $400 • Colonists attacked British soldiers in this town, causing them to fire into the crowd and kill 5 people.

British Actions for $500 • The Sons of Liberty secretly boarded several ships from the East India Tea Co. and dumped their cargo overboard as a protest to the Tea Acts

Double Jeopardy Famous Lines Dec. of Ind. The End +’s & -’s Vocab $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $1000 $1000 $1000 $1000 $1000

Famous Lines for $200 • “These are the times that try men’s souls”

Famous Lines for $400 “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Famous Lines for $600 • “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.”

Famous Lines for $800 • This song was played as the British army surrendered to General Washington at Yorktown

Famous Lines for $1000 • “I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”

Declaration of Independence for $200 • The holiday that celebrates the date the Declaration of Independence was approved by the colonies

Declaration of Independence for $400 • The purpose of the Declaration of Independence

Declaration of Independence for $600 • The author of the Declaration of Independence

Declaration of Independence for $800 • The colonists made one final appeal to King George to make peace with the colonies when they wrote this document

Declaration of Independence for $1000 • The one passage in the ORIGINAL draft of the Declaration of Independence that caused some concern and was eventually removed referred to this.

The End for $200 • These three armies met at the Battle of Yorktown

The End for $400 The name of the document that was signed by Britain, officially granting the Americans their independence

The End for $600 • The Treaty of Paris granted the US all the territory between here and the Atlantic Ocean

The End for $800 • Many members of this group joined the Continental Army hoping that a victory would bring an end to slavery

The End for $1000 • In exchange for their independence and land between the Atlantic and the Mississippi River, the Americans agreed to return any money or property lost during the war to this group of people.

+’s & -’s for $200 • This man and his leadership skills accounted for one of the largest strengths of the Continental Army in their fight against the British

+’s & -’s for $400 • Overall, this group had an disadvantage because their leaders could not cope with the hit-and-run guerilla tactics of the colonists

+’s & -’s for $600 • Wearing down the British and tiring them out by fighting a defensive war

+’s & -’s for $800 • The British had the advantage of having more of these

+’s & -’s for $1000 • This European nation secretly supported the Americans during the Revolutionary War until the Battle of Saratoga when they officially became our ally, sending troops and supplies

Vocabulary for $200 • An overall plan for achieving a goal such as willing a war.

Vocabulary for $400 • The unjust use of government power.

History Alive! Assessment 5, 6, & 7 Jeopardy