Download Review Game - Ms. Larrabee`s Classroom

Review Game
Rules Of the Game
• Each round will consist of 3 questions, which
you will answer on your own piece of paper.
• You will have, in most cases, 90 seconds to
answer
• When the buzzer sounds, time has expired.
You must stop answering.
• The correct answers will be given after the
buzzer.
GET READY!!!!!
Round One
• 1. In what year was the First Continental Congress?
• 2. Where was the first shot of the war fired?
• 3. Who wrote “Common Sense”?
TIME!!!
• 1. 1774
• 2. Lexington
• 3. Thomas Paine
Round Two
• 1. The Second Continental Congress wad held
in what year?
• 2. The Second Continental was responsible for
writing what document?
• 3. What are the “Unalienable Rights” the
authors of the Declaration of Independence
wrote about?
TIME!!!
• 1. 1775
• 2. Declaration of Independence
• 3. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Round Three
• 1. Who was the main author of the
Declaration of Independence?
• 2. What were the American soldiers at the
Battle of Lexington and Concord called?
• 3. What battle was a turning point for the
Americans in the Revolutionary War?
TIME!!!!
• 1. Thomas Jefferson
• 2. Minutemen
• 3. The Battle of Saratoga
Round Four
• 1. What was the last battle of the American
Revolution?
• 2. Where did the American Army spend their
winter?
• 3. What is the name of the man from France
who helped train American troops?
TIME!!!
• 1. The Battle of Yorktown
• 2. Valley Forge
• 3. Marquis de Lafayette
Round Five
• 1. What document ended the American
Revolution?
• 2. What is the significance of the year 1776?
• 3. What was addressed in the Declaration of
Independence?
TIME!!!
• 1. Treaty of Paris 1783
• 2. colonists declared independence from
Britain
• Grievances/Problems with the king
Round Six
• 1. Who is considered the founder of the U.S.
Navy?
• 2. What did Common Sense call for?
• 3. What are unalienable rights?
TIME!!!
• 1. John Paul Jones
• 2. Independence from England
• 3. rights that the government cannot take
away without just cause
Round Seven
• 1. What stopped colonists from settling west
of the Appalachian Mountains?
• 2. What was Britain's reaction to the Boston
Tea Party?
• 3. What does the word “unalienable” mean?
TIME!!!
• 1. Proclamation of 1763
• 2. The Intolerable Acts
• 3. untouchable, unchangable
Round Eight
• 1. What act placed a tax on newspapers,
pamphlets, and other printed materials?
• 2. What was the main reason the colonists
were made at the British Parliament?
• 3. What country did Benjamin Franklin
convince to become America’s ally?
TIME!!!
• 1. Stamp Act
• 2. Taxation without representation
• 3. France
And your prize. . .
• You’ll see AFTER YOU TAKE YOUR SIX WEEKS
TEST!!!!