Road to Revolution
The name of the war in which the british colonies of america revolted against britain
What is the american revolutionary war?
The number of british colonies
What is 13?
The name of the king of england
Who is king george II?
The place that the boston harbor was located
What is Boston, Massachusetts?
The two main fighters
What is britain and france?
When a group of rebels dumped tea into the ocean
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The person that founded Pennsylvania as a safe haven for Quakers to practice their religion
Who is William Penn?
The idea that someone accused of a crime has to be told what it is
What is habeas corpus?
The people who wanted to separate from the church of england and move on to a new world of religious freedom
What are pilgrims?
The land the war was fought over
What is the ohio river valley?
British soldier take over public land and vacant places and houses
What is the quartering act?
A colony established with the permission of the king
What is a proprietary colony?
Written list of freedoms the government promises to protect
What is the bill of rights?
The agreement written by the pilgrims that provided a form of self government
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The key battle of the war
What is the battle of Quebec?
The battle where the shot heard around the world was fired
What is Lexington & Concord?
A colony directly effected by the king
What is a royal colony?
The first document to limit the monarch's power
What is the magna carta?
The early form of representative government in Jamestown
What is the house of burgesses?
Plan to unite the colonies against the french
What is the albany plan of union?
Paul revere's fate
What is captured?
Trade route connecting America, Africa, and Europe
What is the Triangular Trade?
Economic theory that a nation prospered more by exporting more goods than importing
What is mercantilism?
The person who enforced strict rules such as No work, no food
Who is John Smith?
Established that British controlled lands east of the Mississippi River and Spanish Florida
What is the treaty of paris 1763?
The company supplied the tea that ended up getting dumped in the ocean
What is the British East India Company?
Originally named New Netherlands
What is New York?
These laws were passed in order to regulate colonial trade for the benefit of england
What are the navigation acts?
This Patuxet Indian(Native American) was critical in helping the Plymouth settlers by teaching them how to plant crops
Who is Squanto?
He was sent to warn French to remove themselves from British lands but was defeated
The reason the Quebec Act angered the colonists
What is it gave land to the losers of the French and Indian War, while stopping the colonists from moving there?
The charter colonies
What is connecticut, massachusetts bay, and rhode island?
Controlled the colonies and made laws
What is parliament?
The word carved into a tree on Roanoke island
What is croatoan?
The reason boycotts work
What is when you hurt someone's wealth, they pay attention?
The breadbasket colonies
What is new jersey, new york, pennsylvania, and delaware?
The amount of times the british attempted to create a colony on roanoke island
What is twice?
The side that was allied with native americans first
The amount of delegates that formed the stamp act congress
What is 9?
Southern colonies relied on this to survive
What is farming
The reason washington survived
What is he was released?
The connection between Julius Caesar and the quartering act
What is they both violated the no standing armies law?
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Washington cut down a cherry tree
What is no?
Where washington was defeated after warning the french to move out
What is fort necessity? So called due to it being built out of necessity
FINAL JEOPARDY: 5x POINT WORTH
You are living in the british colonies of america
You pick up your evening edition newspaper with the front page titling: Bloody Massacre Perpetrated on King Street
My question to you is:
The day that fateful day
What is March 5th, 1770?
At one point all the colonies took advantage of the ability of being able to have human beings shipped from africa to the colonies in order to use them to farm for no pay and the benefits include a small shack to live in, a job, and beatings every other day
What is yes?
What did franklin put on his cartoon urging the colonies to unite against the french
MENTION AT LEAST 5 DIFFERENT EXAMPLES
What is a cut up snake with virginia in a knot and pennsylvania being large, new england being the head, south carolina being the tail, georgia not being included, and the inscription join, or die?