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JEOPARDY
Credits
Geographic terms
American Revolution
The Constitution
The Bill of Rights
Key Dates
Impact of Geography on History
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• The study of the earths surface and its
  characteristics

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What is physical geography?
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The study of the distribution of people and
how they interact with the environment
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What is human geography?
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Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Gilbralter
Dardanelles
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What are examples of geographic choke points?
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• The spread of ideas and beliefs, products, and
  ways of doing things

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What is spatial or cultural diffusion?
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Battle known as theShot Heard Round the World
because it began the American Revolution
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• What was the
• Battle of Lexington?

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• The date of the signing of the Declaration of
  Independence

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• What was July 4, 1776?

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• The battle fought in Virginia resulting in the
  British surrender and the independence of the
  American colonies

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• What was the Battle of Yorktown?

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The argument the colonists used to resist the
British policies, which had been changed to help
pay for the French and Indian War
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What was No taxation without representation?
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• The three branches of the federal government

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What are legislative, executive, and judicial?
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Veto, Senate approval of Presidential
appointments, and declaring a law unconstitutional
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• What are examples of the checks and balances
  system in the Constitution?

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The type of government patterned after the
Romans in which the citizens elect
representatives to carry out the powers of the
government
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What is a republic?
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• The principle that divides the powers and
  responsibilities of government between national
  and state

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• What is federalism?

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• Freedom of Expression-free speech, free press,
  freedom of religion, petition, and assembly

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What are the freedoms guaranteed in the First
Amendment?
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• No unreasonable searches and seizures

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• What is the freedom guaranteed in the 4th
  Amendment?

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• The Amendment guaranteeing a citizen
• a fair jury trial in a criminal case?

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What is the Sixth Amendment?
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Daily Double
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• The protection
• of the 5th Amendment that guarantees the
  government must follow certain rules in the
  prosecution of an accused person

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• What is
• Due process?

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The year beginning the Civil War when seven
Southern states seceded from the Union over the
election of Lincoln
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• What was 1861?

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The year the Civil War ended with the South
surrendering to the North
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• What was 1865?

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The date the Constitutional Convention met to
draw up a new plan of government
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• What was 1787?

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The date of the Magna Carta which began to limit
the power of the English king?
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• What was 1215?

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The four sites and the respective rivers of the
first river valley civilizations
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• What are
• Egypt-Nile
• Tigris/Euphrates-Mesopotamia
• Indus-India
• Yangtze-China

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• The nomads on horseback who came from the grassy
  plains of central Europe to conquer the largest
  land empire in the history of the world

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• Who were the
• Mongols?

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The push factor that causeda large migration
of Irish to come to the United States in the
1840s
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What was the Irish Potato Famine?
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• The pull factor that caused the Pilgrims and
  Puritans to come to the New World?

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• What was the opportunity to worship as they
  please and escape persecution?

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A Special Thanks to the following who made
this game possibleBarbara Caffee, Social
Studies Co-coordinator for CFBISDand the 8th
Grade American History teachers of CFBISDEric
Fink, Technology consultant for CFBISDJeopardy
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