THE DOCUMENTS
THE PLACES
DATES OF NOTE
THE PEOPLE
POTPOURRI
FINAL JEOPARDY
100

NAME THE THREE DOCUMENTS THAT MAKE UP THE CHARTERS OF FREEDOM

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS

100

AFTER THE 7 YEARS WAR (FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR) THE BRITISH FORBADE THE COLONIST FROM GOING PAST THIS MOUNTAIN RANGE 

APPALICHAIN MOUNTATINS

100

WHAT YEAR DID THE BOSTON TEA PARTY OCCUR

1773

100

THIS TRAITOR WAS FOUND OUT IN WEST POINT, NEW YORK IN SEPTEMBER 1780

BENEDICT ARNOLD

100

IN 1777, GEORGE WASHINGTON MANDATED INOCULATION FOR HIS ARMY AGAINST THIS VIRUS

SMALLPOX

200

AUTHOR OF COMMON SENSE

THOMAS PAYNE

200

THIS WAS THE FINAL MAJOR BATTLE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

YORKTOWN

200

RALPH WALDO EMERSON CALLED THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD THE SITE OF THE 'SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD'. WHAT YEAR DID IT OCCUR

1775

200

THE FATHER OF THE AMERICAN NAVY, JOHN PAUL JONES, DEFEATED THE BRITISH IN THE NAVAL BATTLE OF FLAMBOROUGH HEAD WITH HIS 42-GUN FRIGATE THE BONHOMME RICHARD, NAMED FOR THIS FOUNDING FATHER

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

200

NAME ONE OF THE TAXES IMPOSED BY THE BRITISH THAT ANGERED THE COLONISTS AND FULED THE REVOLUTION

THE SUGAR ACT (1764), THE STAMP ACT (1765), AND THE TOWNSHEND ACT (1767)

300

HOW MANY RATIFIED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION

27

300

THIS IS WHERE THE 2ND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS WAS EXILED TO IN 1777 AFTER THE BRITISH TOOK PHILADELPHIA AFTER THE BATTLE OF BRANDYWINE IN CHADDS FORD, PA. THEY WERE PRODUCTIVE THOUGH AND PASSED THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION

YORK, PA - THEY ALSO BREIFLY MET IN LANCASTER

300

WHEN WAS THE TREATY OF PARIS SIGNED

SEPTEMBER 3, 1783

300

GEORGE WASHINGTON WASN'T THE ONLY FUTURE US PRESIDENT TO CROSS THE DELAWARE ON CHRISTMAS EVE 1776.

JAMES MONROE - HE ALMOST DIED AFTER SEVERING AN ARTERY IN THE BATTLE OF TRENTON

300

WHAT IS THE ONLY COLONY THAT DID NOT ATTEND THE 1ST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS IN PHILADELPHIA, PA 

GEORGIA

400

ONLY ONE MAN SIGNED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENCE, THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE TREAY OF PARIS

BEN FRANKLIN

400

THIS ISLAND IN SOUTH CAROLINA DID NOT FALL TO THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY IN 1776 THANKS TO THE VERY EFFECTIVE, SAND-FILLED PALMETTO LOGS THAT STOPPED THE CANNONADE

SULLIVAN'S ISLAND

400

WHAT DATE WAS THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ENACTED 

MARCH 4, 1789 - AMERICA 250 IS 13 YEARS TOO EARLY ;)

400

THE SIX-NATION HAUDENOSAUNEE CONFEDERACY (IROQUOIS LEAGUE) IS BELIEVE TO BE THE FIRST, KNOWN DEMOCRACY IN NORTH AMERICA. NAME ONE OF THE SIX NATIONS

 Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora

400

NAME ONE OF THE COMMANDERS-IN-CHEIF OF THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE REVOLUTION

GAGE, HOWE, CLINTON, CARLETON

500

LAST STATE TO RATIFY THE CONSTITUTION

RHODE ISLAND

500

THIS BATTLE IN THE FALL OF 1777, WHERE THE COLONISTS SURROUNDED GENERAL BURGOYNE'S ARMY FORCING SURRENDER, HELPING CONVINCE FRANCE TO JOIN THE WAR

THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA

500

WHAT YEAR DID THE 1ST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS MEET

1774 - SEPTEMBER 5TH TO OCTOBER 26TH IN PHILADELPHIA, PA

500

JOHN HANCOCK WAS THE FIRST SIGNER OF THE DECLERATION OF INDEPENDANCE, WHY?

THE WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE 2ND CONTINTENTIAL CONGRESS

500

HOW MANY NAMES APPEAR ON THE DUNLAP BROADSIDE COPY OF THE DECLERATION OF INDEPENCE SENT TO KING GEORGE III

TWO - JOHN HANCOCK AND CHARLES THOMPSON

500

NAME THE 13 ORIGINAL COLONIES

NEW HAMPSHIRE, MASSACHUSETTS, CONNECTICUT, RHODE ISLANDS, NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, DELAWARE, VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA, AND GEORGIA

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