© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved


Directions:

• Scroll through the presentation and enter the answers (which are really the questions) and the questions (which are really the answers).

• Enter in the categories on the main game boards.

• As you play the game, click on the TEXT DOLLAR AMOUNT that the contestant calls, not the surrounding box.

• When they have given a question, click again anywhere on the screen to see the correct question. Keep track of which questions have already been picked by printing out the game board screen and checking off as you go.

• Click on the “Game” box to return to the main scoreboard.

• Enter the score into the black box on each players podium.

• Continue until all clues are given.

• When finished, DO NOT save the game. This will overwrite the program with the scores and data you enter. You MAY save it as a different name, but keep this file untouched!


Round 1

Round 2

Final

Jeopardy

$500

Ph illi p

$

D e

$

Kathy


Exploration Unrest in the colonies

$100

$100

$200

$200

$300

$400

$300

$400

$500

$500

American

Revolution

Creating a

Constitution

Government

$100

$200

$300

$400

$500

$100

$200

$300

$400

$500

$100

$200

$300

$400

$500

Round 2

Final

Jeopardy

Scores


$100

How did discoveries of 15 th century inspire further explorations by

Europeans?


$100

They saw the potential for settling the land and gaining riches from it

Scores


$200

What is BIAS? And are historians ever influenced by their biases?


$200

Leaning towards or against a certain person, position or idea

Impacts POINT OF VIEW

YES!! Everyone is influenced by their biases

Scores


$300

How did European colonization impact Native peoples?


$300

Disease and warfare killed a majority of Native Americans in

Mexico and the Caribbean

Scores


$400

Name some goods that were brought over to the Old World from the New World?

(So from America to Europe)


$400

Corn and pumpkins

Scores


$500

The _________ colonies had mild winters, fertile soil and farming as a major part of their economy.

A. New England

B. Middle

C. Southern


$500

B. Middle

(also known as the ‘bread basket’ colonies)

Scores


$100

Why did parliament raise taxes in the colonies after 1763?


$100

The British felt the Colonists should help pay for the French and Indian War.

Scores



$200

What was the main cause of the

French and Indian War?


$200

The French were determined to halt (stop) westward expansion by the English

So, they built forts in the disputed land to stake claim to it….

Scores


$300

“Boston Harbor is a teapot tonight”

Which historical event does this refer to? And, what ACT by

Parliament led this event?


$300

Boston Tea Party,

Tea Act of 1773 was never repealed which greatly effected colonial tea merchants

“There must always be one tax to keep up the right (to tax)”

-King George III on taxing the colonies

Scores


$400

What event does this image show?

And why do we consider this an example of colonial propaganda?


$400

Boston Massacre

Only 5 colonists were killed AFTER throwing snowballs and ice at British soldiers

The image and title “Bloody

Massacre” made the British look like the sole aggressors, who were killing people in the streets

Scores


$500

The British punished

Massachusetts after the Boston

Tea Party by passing the

Intolerable Acts.

List the terms:


$500

1. Port of Boston was closed

2. New Quartering Act

3. British officials could not be tried in Massachusetts

Scores


$100

After the preamble, what are the 3 main parts of the Declaration of

Independence?


$100

Natural Rights, Wrongs of the

King, Declaring Independence

(These are my rights, here what you did wrong, we are over!)

Scores


$200

Why were the Battles of Saratoga and Yorktown important in the

American Revolution?


$200

Saratoga prompted France to join the war and fight WITH the patriots

Yorktown led to the British surrender as a combined force of

Americans and French surrounded the peninsula, trapping Cornwallis

Scores


$300

Describe conditions at Valley

Forge


$300

*Poor food

*Cold weather

*Hardly any clothing

*Frostbite and diseases

Scores


$400

What helped ease suffering and gave hope to the soldiers at

Valley Forge?


$400

Warmer weather, much needed supplies finally arrive

Scores


$500

Name one major advantage the

Continental Army had which helped them win the war:


$500

The Americans knew the land

(military strategy based on knowledge of local geography)

Scores


$100

Name 2 weaknesses of the

Articles of Confederation


$100

*State governments had more power than the central or federal government

*No authority to tax

Scores


$200

What was the New Jersey plan for representation ?

Why was it supported by small states?


$200

All states would have equal representation in the legislature

Large states could not dominate the smaller ones

Scores


$300

Name the Compromise that brought both the Virginia and

New Jersey plans together?

How is our Congress today a result of this compromise?


$300

Great Compromise

Senate – NJ plan – all states equal representation

House of Representatives –

Virginia plan – based on state’s population

Scores


$400

Which group argued that the

Constitution must list ways to protect citizens and their rights?

What document came of this?


$400

Antifederalists

Bill of Rights

Scores


$500

How did the Bill of Rights become part of the US

Constitution?


$500

It was added through the amendment process

Pushed by anti-federalists as a compromise in ratifying the

Constitution

Bill of Rights: First 10

Amendments

Scores


$100

Give three goals listed in the

Preamble.


$100

*Form a more perfect union

*Establish justice

*Ensure domestic tranquility

*Provide for the common defense

*Promote the general welfare

*Ensure liberty to ourselves and our future generations

Scores


$200

Name the most powerful check that president has over

Congress’s ability to make laws


$200

-He can VETO or CANCEL a proposed law (BILL)

Scores


$300

What is the main function of the

Articles, or main body, of the

Constitution?

What is covered in Articles 1, 2, and 3?


$300

To establish the FRAMEWORK of our government

(details on how it works and who does what!)

Article 1 – Legislative

Article 2 – Executive

Article 3 – Judicial

Scores


$400

Name three powers of the

Legislative Branch


$400

*Write laws

*Impeach (charge a government official with a crime)

*override a veto

*coin money

*declare war

*approve treaties and appointments made by President

Scores


$500

Name the 5 rights given to

Americans in the 1 st Amendment


$500

Freedom of…

Speech

Religion

Press (printing what we want in newspapers)

Assembly (to gather in protest)

Petition

Scores

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