PEOPLE
TERMS/IDEAS
DECLARATION OF IND.
GRAB BAG
FINAL JEOPARDY
100
"I have not yet begun to fight!"
Who is John Paul Jones
100
Name any 1 reason George Washington was selected commander of the Continental Army
- From VA - Experience during the French and Indian War
100
Name the 3 main parts
1.) Natural/Unalienable Rights 2.) Wrongs committed by King George III 3.) Reasons to break away from England
100
Name 2 things the British would do to colonists' property in the South which led the colonists to fight back (talk about fighting dirty)
- Burned crops - Stole valuables - Killed livestock
100
Turning point of the war for the Patriots
Battle at Saratoga
200
"Molly! Water!" (Real name)
Who is Mary Ludwig Hays
200
Colonists used cannons to set up and surround the British in Boston. What is this general term called?
A siege
200
What finally convinced 2nd Continental Congress to form a committee to write the DOI
Thomas paine's "Common Sense"
200
This was read to the Continental Army by Washington to inspire troops at Valley Forge
Thomas Paine's "The Crisis"
300
Carefully startegized his small targets in the West to ruin relationships between the British and the Native Americans
Who is George Rogers Clark
300
The hill where Washington stationed cannons from Ticonderoga to take Boston for the Americans
Dorchester Heights
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!! Name any 3 of the 5 men and the main author
- John Adams - Ben Franklin - Thomas Jefferson - Roger Sherman - Roger Livingston
300
Dragged cannons from ticonderoga to Boston in middle of winter (and you thought walking to school was hard)
Henry Knox
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!! Helped teach survival tactics, discipline and bayonette training at Valley Forge
Who is Friedrich von Steuben
400
What 2 things did the new Boston governor (General Thomas Gage) want the British military to do which led to the start of the Revolutionary War
- Arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock - Find and take the hidden militia guns
400
The 3 main Natural or Unalienable Rights
- Life - Liberty - Pursuit of happiness
400
Name the boundaries of the new United States post Revolutionary War
- Great Lakes to North - MS River to West - 31 degrees North Latitude to South - Atlantic Ocean to East
500
Donated $200,000 to the Patriot cause
Who is Marquis de Lafayette
500
Name any 2 conclusions from the FIRST Continental Congress
- Train colonial militias - Declaration of Rights - Boycott british goods
500
Name of the 100-200 original copies made right after the DOI was approved with just 2 signatures
Dunlap Broadsides
500
Offered by the 2nd Continental Congress to King George III as a "right to life, liberty and property."
Declaration of Rights
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