Mr. D.'s 8th grade Social Studies Jeopardy

8th grade Quiz 1 & 2

100

______________________ explains how humans affect the environment and how the environment impacts humans.

Human/Environment Interaction

200

The Central and Southern regions of West Virginia contain valuable supplies of ____________.

Coal

300

_____________________ actually strips the land, uproots trees, destroys land, and pollutes streams, increasing the potential for erosion and flooding.

Strip Mining

400

A ________________________ is someone who travels away from home to another place and who does not plan to stay permanently in the new location.

Tourist

500

Those who settled in West Virginia included a variety of European __________________ who were looking for religious freedom.

Immigrants

Quiz 3 & 4

100

The _____________________ lived in Native American towns, establishing families, learning the languages, and creating alliances.

French

200

_________________________ was an armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677.

Bacon's Rebellion

300

In 1749 ____________________________________ led an expedition down the Ohio to claim the valley for France and to confine English colonists and their fur trade to the east of the Allegheny Mountains.

Pierre' Celeron de' Blainville

400

The ______________________ claimed the Ohio Valley with the Batts-Fallam expedition.

English

500

In 1716_________________________ led an expedition across the Blue Ridge Mountains and into the Shenandoah Valley.

Alexander Spotswood

Quiz 5 & 6

100

The Iroquois had a type of _______________ government.

Representative

200

The last, and largest battle of the French and Indian War, the __________________, was a crucial victory for the British, who could now take control of most of North America.

Battle of Quebec

300

In the ______________________ in 1763, France ceded Canada to Britain, and received in return the sugar islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.

Treaty of Paris

400

• The Anti-Stamp teapot protested the ______________.

Stamp Act

500

• Mounting opposition culminated in what much later became known as the Boston Tea Party, in which colonists on December 16th ___________ disguised as Indians dumped tea from British ships.

1773

Quiz 7 & 8

100

In May 1775, war had already begun between British soldiers and armed ___________________________ citizens.

Massachusettes

200

On _______________________ Congress formally declared the United States an independent nation, and two days later it adopted the Declaration of Independence, authored by Thomas Jefferson and revised by the Congress before its approval.

July 2nd, 1776

300

The Declaration of Independence forever altered the meaning of _____________________________.

American Freedom

400

• Every ________________________ has their own constitution (laws of their state), though there is also one main federal United States Constitution.

U.S. State

500

• In 1829, roughly forty years after the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, _________________________ called its own constitutional convention to revise the state’s framework of government.

Virginia

Miscellaneous

100

There are ____ continents on planet earth.

7

200

There are over ______ billion people on planet earth.

7

300

There are over _____ million animal species on planet earth.

2

400

There are _________ countries in the world.

195

500

There are over ______ billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.

100