Jeopardy

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Jeopardy
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• This act taxed all printed material in the
  colonies.
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• This man moved to England hoping to be part of
  the leadership there but instead realized life
  in America was more to his suiting. Upon his
  return he became a leader in the American
  Revolution.
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• This man successfully defended the soldiers of
  the Boston Massacre and was on the committee to
  draft the Declaration of Independence.
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• He was the King of England during the War of
  Independence.
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• He was the leading General of the Continental
  Army.
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• He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
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• Who is Thomas Jefferson?
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• Who is George Washington?
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• Who is George the III?
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• Who is John Adams?
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• Who is Benjamin Franklin?
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• What is the Stamp Act?
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• This act lowered the old tax on Molasses but also
  provided laws and soldiers to enforce it.
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• What is the Sugar Act?
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• This act resulted in the Boston Tea Party.
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• What is the Tea Act?
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• This was Britains response to the Tea Party.
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• What are the Intolerable Acts?
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• These Acts placed taxes on necessary items being
  imported from Great Britain and also laws to help
  enforce these acts and stop Colonial smuggling.
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• What are the Townshend Acts.
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• Any man who signed the Declaration of
  Independence was guilty of this crime.
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• What is treason?
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• This became the primary slogan of the colonists
  concerning their disagreement with the British
  government over the acts of parliament.
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• What is No taxation without representation.
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• This allowed soldiers to search colonial property
  without having any evidence?
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• What is a writ of assistance?
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• July 4, 1776.
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• What is the date that the Second Continental
  approved the Declaration of Independence?
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• Even though this act didnt really do anything
  it was a statement that revealed the principle
  that Britain had toward its colonies that was
  unacceptable to those leading the revolution.
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• What is the Declaratory Act
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• A very successful form of protest for the
  colonists. Refusing to purchase goods as a form
  of protest.
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• What is a boycott?
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• Rights belonging to all people because they are
  human are called this. Solution

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• What are natural rights?
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• A tax on a product produced and sold within a
  country is called this. The Stamp Act was an
  example of this.
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• What is an internal tax?
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• The policy followed by Great Britain before the
  French and Indian war. The policy was to not
  enforce laws on the colonists as long as Great
  Britain prospered from the American colonies.
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• What is salutary neglect?
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• Colonists who fought for their freedom were
  called this by the British.
• Colonists who fought for their freedom called
  themselves this name.
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• What is a rebel?
• What is a patriot?
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• These battles marked the beginning of the War of
  Independence.
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• What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
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• Paul Reveres engraving of the Boston Massacre is
  an example of this.
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• What is propaganda?
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• This was the first major battle fought between
  the British and the American Continental Army.
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• What is Bunker Hill?
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• When Britain passed the Townshend acts and sent
  more troops to enforce them, Franklin said,
  Sending troops to Boston is like setting up a
  Blacksmiths forge in a magazine of gunpowder.
  You are asking for trouble. This event proved
  him right..
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• What is the Boston Massacre?
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• A name for the Battles of Lexington and Concord
  that indicates the affect of the American
  Revolution on the world.
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• What is the shot heard round the world?
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• This man was a victim in the Boston Massacre . He
  was part native American and part African.
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• Who is Crispus Attucks?
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• This man is famous for his midnight ride where he
  warned the minutemen that the regulars are
  coming.
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• Who is Paul Revere?
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• This was a group of men whose main purpose was to
  keep people of other colonies informed about what
  Britain was doing in their colony.
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• What is the committee of correspondence?
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• This author wrote two pamphlets that had a
  significant impact on the American Revolution
  The American Crisis and Common Sense.
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• Who is Thomas Paine?
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• This is the name the colonists who stayed loyal
  to Britain would call themselves or be called by
  the people of Britain.
• This is the name given to colonists who supported
  the British during the revolution and war by the
  Patriots. It was synonymous with coward or
  traitor.
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• What is a loyalist?
• What is a tory?
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What is the difference between the American
Revolution and the War of Independence?