Jeopardy Questions
Who was Thomas Gage?
British general who controlled Boston under the Intolerable Acts
What were American homes?
British soldiers were quartered or housed here
What were the Appalachians?
Chain of mountains beyond which English colonists could not settle
What was Boston 2?
City that had a "tea party"
What was Boston?
City where the famous "massacre" occurred
What was the Philadelphia?
City where the first Continental Congress met
What were muskets?
Colonial firearms
Who was John Adams?
Colonial lawyer who defended the English soldiers after the Boston Massacre
What was the House of Burgesses?
Colonial legislature in Virginia
Who were Tories or Loyalists?
Colonists who were loyal to the British government
What was the Massachusetts?
Colony in which Boston was located
What was Massachusetts 4?
Colony in which the towns of Lexington and Concord were located
What was the Massachusetts 2?
Colony that seemed to take the lead in disobeying British laws
Whats was Virginia?
Colony where Patrick Henry lived
What was New York?
Colony where the Stamp Act Congress met
What was New York 2?
Colony who assembly was forbidden to meet by the Townshend Acts
What were the Committees of Correspondence?
Committees organized to keep the colonies informed by events by writing letters
What was tea?
Commodity that continued to be taxed after the Townshend Acts were repealed
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
Document that forbade English colonists moving across the Appalachian Mountains
What was the Proclamation of 1763 2?
Document that forced colonists in the Ohio River valley to move back to the original 13 colonies
What was Boston 3?
First city to decide not to import goods from Great Britain
What was a petition?
Formal request sent to the king
What were imports?
Goods brought into the colonists
What were enumerated articles?
Goods that could be only sold in England
What was the First Continental Congress 2?
Group that drew up a list of complaints against the King of England
What is tyranny?
Harsh and unjust rule
What were the Intolerable Acts?
Harsh laws passed to punish the people of Boston
What were smuggled goods?
Illegal goods brought into the colonies without being taxed
Who was George III?
King of England during the American Revolution
What were the Virginia Resolutions?
Law that abolished Virginia's elected House of Burgesses
What was Parliament?
Lawmaking body of England
Who was Samuel Adams 2?
Leader of the Sons of Liberty in Massachusetts
Who was Paul Revere?
Man who began the ride to warn the colonists that the British were coming to Concord
Who was Samuel Prescott?
Man who completed the ride to warn the people of Concord that the British were coming
Who was Patrick Henry?
Man who said, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
What were the Minutemen?
Name given to colonial soldiers who could be ready to fight quickly
What was Pontiac's War?
Native American uprising in the Ohio River Valley after the French and Indian War
What is a monopoly?
One company with complete control of a product or service
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
Patriots dressed as Native Americans and dumped tea into the Boston
What was the Charles River?
Paul Revere crossed this river to get from Boston to Charlestown
What were Lexington and Concord?
Places where colonial troops first fired on British troops
What was tarring and feathering?
Punishment used by colonists against supporters of England
What was a boycott?
Refusal by the colonists to buy British goods
Who was John Hancock?
Samuel Adams and this man were to be arrested by the British in Lexington
What was the Massachusetts 3?
Samuel Adams lived in this colony
What was a Redcoat or Lobsterback?
Slang term for a British soldier
What was "No taxation without representation?"
Slogan about taxes that influenced many colonists to rebel against Great Britain
What were Writs of Assistance?
Special search warrants carried by" officers of the crown"when they searched colonial homes
What was a duty?
Tax on goods imported into the colonies
What was a direct tax?
Tax paid directly to the British government
Who was Crispus Attucks?
The African-American colonist killed at the Boston Massacre
Who were the Continentals?
The Colonists in North America
What is a representative government?
The form of government in which people elect people to make laws for them
What was the First Continental Congress?
These colonists united and developed a statement of rights.
What is repeal?
To have an act withdrawn or canceled
What was Concord?
Town in which Samuel Adams and John Hancock hid from General Gage
What was the British East India Company?
Trading company that brought tea to the colonies
What were mobs?
Undisciplined groups of people who destroyed stamped papers to protested the Stamp Act
Who was Patrick Henry 2?
Virginian who was a powerful speaker against unpopular British Acts
What was the French and Indian War?
War that the British paid for by raising the colonists' taxes
What was the Quartering Act?
A law that required colonists to provide barracks and supplies for the British troops in America
What was the Declaratory Act?
Act decreeing that parliament had the right to pass whatever laws were needed to govern the empire
What was the Declaration of Rights?
Act passed by the first Continental Congress in which colonial rights were listed
What was the Quebec Act?
Act that permitted the French in Canada to follow their religion and control their schools
What was the Stamp Act?
Act that required a tax on all written documents, making the colonists furious
What were the Navigation Acts?
Acts declaring that tobacco,wool,cotton,sugar, and indigo could be sold only in England
What were the Townshend Acts?
Acts used to punish the colonies for rebelling against the Stamp Act
Who was Samuel Adams 1?
Boston lawyer who organized the Committees of Correspondence
Who was James Otis?
Boston lawyer who proposed the Stamp Act Congress
