This is a Jeopardy review game for 8th grade U.S. history.

1. People Places Government Dates General
$100 $100 $100 $100 $100
$200 $200 $200 $200 $200
$300 $300 $300 $300 $300
$400 $400 $400 $400 $400
$500 $500 $500 $500 $500

2. Wrote in favor of
equal rights for
women.

3. Who is Abigail Adams?

4. Delegate from Massachusetts
who helped draft the
Declaration of Independence,
was vice-president under
George Washington, and the
2 president of the U.S.
nd

5. Who is John
Adams?

6. Was banished from
Massachusetts and
founded the colony of
Rhode Island.

7. Who is Roger
Williams?

8. King of Great Britain
during the American
Revolution.

9. Who is George III?

10. Was the author of “Common
Sense” and “The Crisis”

11. Who is
Thomas Paine?

12. Founded by James
Oglethorpe in 1732 as
a 2 chance for
nd
debtors; 4 state to
th
join the Union (1788),
capital is Atlanta.

13. What is Georgia?

14. Was the site of the
Revolutionary War
battle that was
considered the
“turning point” of the
war.

15. What is
Saratoga, NY?

16. Was the winter camp of
Washington’s troops
during the winter of
1777.

17. What is Valley Forge?

18. Village in Massachusetts
where colonists first
fired on the British.

19. What is
Concord?

20. Village in
Massachusetts that
Paul Revere warned
about a British attack
and was still caught
by surprise at dawn.

21. What is Lexington?

22. A principle of the United
States Constitution that
states that government
has only the powers that
the Constitution gives it.

23. What is
Limited Government?

24. The rule-book that the
United States
government has to follow
that was written in 1787.

25. What is the U.S.
Constitution?

26. The amendment of the
Constitution that
guarantees freedom of
religion.

27. What is
Amendment #1?

28. To cancel.

29. What is
Repeal?

30. A formal expression of
opinion, preference, or
choice, made by those
individuals who have a
say in a group decision
or election.

31. What is vote?

32. Conflict between
colonists and British
troops in which 5
colonists were killed
(year).

33. What is 1770 –
Boston Massacre?

34. Protest in which
colonists dressed up
as Indians and
dumped British tea in
Boston harbor (year).

35. What is the Boston
Tea Party - 1773?

36. Document that stated that
the United States “are and
of right ought to be free
and independent states.”
(year)

37. What is the Declaration
of Independence,
1776?

38. Establishment of the first
permanent English
settlement in North
America. (year)

39. What is Jamestown,
1607?

40. Document that
officially ended the
American Revolution.

41. What is the
Treaty of Paris, 1783?

42. Agreement
between
merchants not to
import or sell
products from
Great Britain.

43. What are
non-importation
agreements?

44. An army of citizens
who volunteer to fight.

45. What is a militia?

46. A series of laws passed by
England to establish
mercantilism by controlling the
colonial trade.

47. What are the
Navigation Acts?

48. Refusal to buy
certain goods and
sevices.

49. What is a
boycott?

50. The representative
assembly that wrote
the laws for England
and later for Great
Britain.

51. What is Parliament?