JEOPARDY

1. JEOPARDY TEAM 1 TEAM 2

2. Early Colonies: $200 What was the first permanent English settlement in America? Jamestown

3. Early Colonies: $400 Quakers founded this colony to escape religious persecution. Pennsylvania

4. Early Colonies: $600 This colony was the first colony in America. However, it failed. It is now known as the “Lost Colony”. Roanoke Island

5. Early Colonies: $800 What colony was founded by separatists, coming to America to separate from the Church of England? Plymouth

6. Early Colonies: $1000 What group of people founded the colony of Georgia? debtors

7. Colonial Regions: $200 The colonies of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina were in what region: New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southern southern

8. Colonial Regions: $400 Market towns, full of products manufactured by artisans, would most likely be found in which region: New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southern Mid-Atlantic

9. Colonial Regions: $600 What feature of New England made farming difficult? (2 possible answers)? Cool weather & Rocky soil

10. Colonial Regions: $800 Cities and towns were common in all the colonial regions except for: (New England, Mid-Atlantic, or southern) southern

11. Colonial Regions: $1000 What physical feature made New England ideal for trade and shipbuilding? Good harbors

12. Colonial Groups: $200 What was the role of women in colonial America? Homemakers; caregivers

13. Colonial Groups: $400 Plantations in the southern colonies were worked by people who were forced to work the land. This social group are known as: slaves

14. Colonial Groups: $600 Certain people came to the colonies owing money to others. In order to work off the debt, these people agreed to work for someone for a certain period of time. What colonial group is being described? Indentured servants

15. Colonial Groups: $800 Blacksmiths, quilters, and barrel makers are examples of people who belonged to this social group. artisans

16. Colonial Groups: $1000 What was the difference between slaves and indentured servants? Indentured servants gained their freedom after paying off their debt

17. Colonies v. England: $200 Colonists were upset because they had to pay taxes, but they had no… representation

18. Colonies v. England: $400 What war caused the British to start taxing the American colonists? French and Indian War

19. Colonies v. England: $600 The raw materials of the colonies were shipped to England in order to make_____. This was called mercantilism. Manufactured goods

20. Colonies v. England: $800 The Proclamation of 1763 said that colonists were not allowed to settle west of: The Appalachian Highlands

21. Colonies v. England: $1000 What tax, imposed by England, made the colonists especially angry because it required a stamp on all paper materials? The Stamp Act

22. Miscellaneous: $200 What explorer claimed the Mississippi River for France? This land would eventually be part of the reason the French and Indian War was fought, La Salle

23. Miscellaneous: $400 During the French and Indian War, the French were allied with American Indians living in upstate New York and southern Canada (the eastern woodlands). What group of American Indians were they allied with? Iroquois

24. Miscellaneous: $600 The colony of Pennsylvania eventually spread west. Part of Pennsylvania now borders what Great Lake? Lake Erie

25. Miscellaneous: $800 What two physical (geographic) regions can be found in the area that was part of the 13 colonies? Coastal plain & Appalachian Highland

26. Miscellaneous: $1000 While the British were exploring and colonizing America, what country was trading with the Mali, Ghana, and Songhai empires of western Africa? Portugal

27. Final Jeopardy The 13 Colonies

28. Name the 13 American colonies controlled by England until July 4, 1776.