with your host, miss wyss social studies jeopardy revolutionary war part 2

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Revolutionary War Part 2

4Wyss JEOPARDYVocabulary True/ False Choosing Sides Leftovers

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Final Jeopardy!

Vocab 100 Fill in Blank…When British

soldiers killed 5 people during a fight in Boston, angry colonists called it a what?

Massacre (Known as the Boston Massacre)

Vocab 200 What did the colonists write to explain

why the colonies should be free from Britain?

Letter

Document

Declaration

Newspaper

Vocab 300 The British were able to capture Georgia

and South Carolina by changing their what?

A. PlanB. Strategy C. Commander

Vocab 400 This world means unbearable

A. Awful B. Harsh C. Intolerable

Vocab 500 DEFINITION:

a rise in the prices of goods, this usually happens during war

A. inflationB. surplusC. high taxes

True or False 100 A Patriot fired the first shot in the Revolutionary

War.

False! (Nobody knows for sure!)

True or False 200 Women helped a lot during the war.

Some even joined the Continental Army.

True!

True or False 300

Some Loyalists (colonists) supported Britain because some of them were worried that they would lose their jobs or businesses after the

war was over.

True!

True or False 400 African Americans did not fight on either side

during the war, they stayed neutral.

False! They fought on BOTH sides because BOTH sides offered them freedom from slavery.

True or False * …. = 500 Signing the declaration was considered to be a crime called treason. *** To get full credit…you must also say, what was the penalty for treason at this time? ***

True! The penalty was worse than jail time…it was hanging! Yikes!

Choosing Sides 100 What percent of people were Patriots?

100% 50% 30%

Choosing Sides 200

20% or 1/5 30% 0%

What percent of people stayed loyal to Britain?

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Choosing Sides 300 Fill in Blank…What percentage of people

remained neutral during the war?

30%

Choosing Sides 400 General Thomas Gage was a general for

which side?

Britain or America?

Britain

Choosing Sides 500 France helped what side during the war?

Britain or America? America

Leftovers 100 Why was the winter at Valley Forge hard

on the American Army?

They had no commander

There were too many British soldiers among them

Little supplies, cold, scarce food

Leftovers 200 Why did Britain want to tax the colonies in the first place?

a. They owed money to the Indiansb. The French and Indian War cost a lo

t of moneyc. They owed money to France and Sp

ain

Leftovers 300

What was the longest section in the Declaration of Independence?

A list of reasons why America should be independent A list of complaints against the King A list of places the colonists wished they lived instead

Leftovers 400 After the war was over, the King of

England signed what document that officially declared America was independent?

A. Treaty of PeaceB. Treaty of Paris C. Treaty of Britain

Leftovers 500 What was the name of the brochure

that pushed for independence and was written by Thomas Paine?

A. Declaration of Independence

B. Common Sense PamphletC. Treaty of Paris

Final Jeopardy Before you see the question,

please decide as a group how much money you would like to wager!

You may not wager more money that what you have.

If you wager and get the answer wrong, you will lose those points!

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Final Jeopardy: Challenge Question! Think about when the Revolutionary

War officially started and ended to answer this…

About how many years did this war last?

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Final Jeopardy Answer! Almost 8 years… Official Start: Battles of Lexington and Concord (Shot

Heard Around the World): April 19, 1775

Official End: Signing of the Treaty of Paris: April 11,

1783

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