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Round 1
Round 2
Final
Jeopardy
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American
Revolution
American American
Revolution Revolution
American
Revolution
American
Revolution
New
Nation
Round 2
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Final
Jeopardy
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Scores
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Benjamin Franklin helped to
write this famous document
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What is the Declaration of
Independence?
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The former slave who wrote
poems during the American
Revolution
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Who is Phillis Wheatley?
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The patriot who warned the
colonists that the British were
arriving
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Who is Paul Revere?
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The place the British surrender
during the Revolutionary War
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What is Yorktown?
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The first armed conflict of the
American Revolution
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What is the Battle of Lexington
and Concord?
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The date the colonists declared
independence from England
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What is July 4, 1776?
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The event in which colonists
were shot while teasing British
soldiers
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What is the Boston Massacre?
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The purpose of the first
Continental Congress
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What is to promote
independence from England?
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The colony that did not attend
the First Continental Congress
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What is Georgia?
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Samuel Adams and Paul Revere
led colonial patriots in this event
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What is the Boston Tea Party?
Scores
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The battle of the American
Revolution that was the turning
point of the war
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What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Scores
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The battle that ended the
Revolutionary War
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What is the Battle of
Yorktown?
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This happened at the Boston
Massacre
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What is the British soldiers who
were being taunted/teased shot
several colonists?
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The reason for the Boston Tea
Party
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What is to protest taxes or tea
taxes?
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The actions of the patriots at
the Boston Tea Party
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What is to protest taxes they
threw tea into the Boston
Harbor?
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The reason the Revolutionary
War Battle of Lexington and
Concord is remembered
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What is it was the first armed
conflict of the war?
Scores
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Won the Revolutionary War
Battle of Saratoga
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Who are the Americans?
Scores
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The treaty that ended the
Revolutionary War
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What is the Treaty of Paris?
Scores
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Won the Revolutionary War
Battle of Yorktown
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Who are the Americans?
Scores
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The effect of the Treaty of
Paris on the Americans colonists
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What is their independence from
England?
Scores
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July 4, 1776
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What is the date the colonists
declared independence from
England?
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The advantages the colonists
had in the American Revolution
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What is the defense of their
own land, principles and beliefs,
support from France and Spain,
and strong leadership?
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The Articles of Confederation
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What is America’s first
Constitution and the Constitution
written during the American
Revolution?
Scores
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The branch of government that
existed under the Articles of
Confederation
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What is the legislative branch?
Scores
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Under the Articles of
Confederation, the type of
national government established
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What is weak?
Scores
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The weaknesses of the Articles
of Confederation
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What are weak national
government, no power to tax, no
common currency, each state
had one vote, no executive
branch, no judicial branch, and
no power to regulate commerce
among states?
Scores
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The two branches of government
NOT provided for in the
Articles of Confederation
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What are the executive and
judicial branches?
Scores
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The document that established a
weak national government with
only one branch
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What is the Articles of
Confederation?
Scores
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Provided people with a written
guarantee of individual rights
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What is the Bill of Rights?
Scores
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The way powers are divided in a
federal system of government
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What is between the national
and state governments?
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New
Nation
New
Nation
New
Nation
New
Nation
New
Nation
New
Nation
Round 1
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Final
Jeopardy
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Scores
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The principle of government that
divides power into different
branches
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What is the separation of
powers?
Scores
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The number of branches of
government created by the
Constitution of the United
States
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What is three?
Scores
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The three branches of
government created by the
Constitution of the United
States
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What are the executive,
legislative, and judicial
branches?
Scores
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James Madison’s plan for the
new national government
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What is the Virginia Plan?
Scores
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Represents the legislative branch
of the national government
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What is Congress?
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Represents the executive branch
of the national government
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Who is the President?
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Represents the judicial branch
of the national government
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What are the courts or the
Supreme Court?
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The purpose of the legislative
branch of government
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What is makes the laws?
Scores
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The purpose of the executive
branch of government
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What is carries out the laws?
Scores
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The purpose of the judicial
branch of government
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What is determines if laws are
constitutional?
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The system of government that
divides power between the state
and national levels
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What is the Federal System or
federalism?
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This famous American proposed
three branches of government in
the Virginia Plan
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Who is James Madison?
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The two houses of Congress
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What are the House of
Representatives and the
Senate?
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Represented by the United
States Senate
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What are the states?
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Represented by the United
States House of Representatives
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What are the people?
Scores
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The number of United States
Senators per state
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What are two?
Scores
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Determines a state’s
representation in the United
States House of Representatives
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What is the state’s population?
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This house of Congress has
equal representation per state
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What is the Senate?
Scores
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This house of Congress has
representation based on a
state’s population
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What is the House of
Representatives?
Scores
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This principle of government
allows each branch of
government to check the powers
of the other branches
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What are checks and balances?
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The principle of checks and
balances importance
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What is keeps any one branch
of government from gaining too
much power?
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The author of the Bill of Rights
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Who is James Madison?
Scores
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The first ten amendments to
the Constitution of the United
States
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What is the Bill of Rights?
Scores
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The two freedoms from the Bill
of Rights
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What are speech and religion?
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The Bill of Rights importance
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What is a written guarantee of
individual freedoms?
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The leader of the Federalists
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Who is Alexander Hamilton?
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The leader of the Democratic Republicans
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Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Scores
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This type of national government
the Federalists favored
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What is strong?
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This type of national government
the Democratic Republicans
favored
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What is weak?
Scores
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The disagreement between these
two men led to the development
of political parties
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Who is Alexander Hamilton and
Thomas Jefferson?
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New Nation
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Final
Jeopardy
Question
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This one of the first five
presidents was NOT a Virginian
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Who is John Adams?
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