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U.S. History Jeopardy - Test Your Knowledge on American Founders and Political Figures

Get ready to challenge your knowledge of key figures in U.S. history with this Jeopardy game about American founders, politicians, and important historical events. Answer questions ranging from the Revolutionary War to political ideologies.

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U.S. History Jeopardy - Test Your Knowledge on American Founders and Political Figures

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  1. Jeopardy Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

  2. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

  3. Europeans The U.S. Congress Who said it? B-List Founders More Faces 1970s Television Shows 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

  4. He helped train Washington’s army at Valley Forge

  5. Who was Baron Von Steuben?

  6. He named Virginia after Elizabeth I; she later had him executed

  7. Who was Sir Walter Ralegh?

  8. Pocahontas, Sacagawea, or Ann Hutchinson

  9. Who was Pocohantas?

  10. This Frenchman helped led American troops in the Revolution

  11. Who was The Marquis de Lafayette?

  12. This philosopher said people have the right to life, liberty, and property

  13. Who was John Locke?

  14. His “American System” was one of the Whig party’s main goals

  15. Who was Henry Clay?

  16. He was the original proponent of Nullification in South Carolina in 1832

  17. Who John C. Calhoun?

  18. This Massachusetts congressman frequently helped to build compromises over slavery

  19. Who is Daniel Webster?

  20. His Proviso during the Mexican War helped re-ignite debates over slavery in 1846

  21. Who is David Wilmot?

  22. This Illinois congressman defeated Lincoln in Senate elections in 1858, but lost the presidential election to him in 1860

  23. Who was Stephen Douglas?

  24. “He who shall not work, shall not eat.”

  25. Who was John Smith?

  26. “We shall be as a city upon a hill”

  27. Who was John Winthrop?

  28. “Ain’t I a Woman?”

  29. Who was Sojourner Truth?

  30. “I wanted to live deep and suck all the marrow out of life, to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life.”

  31. Who was Henry David Thoreau?

  32. “What hath God wrought?”

  33. Who was Samuel Morse?

  34. He was our first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

  35. Who was John Jay?

  36. He is most responsible for establishing the Supreme Court’s power of Judicial Review

  37. Who was John Marshall?

  38. He was the President of the Second Continental Congress; he was also a smuggler

  39. Who was John Hancock?

  40. This leader of the Sons of Liberty had a cousin who was president

  41. Who was Sam Adams?

  42. This German immigrant was Jefferson’s brilliant Secretary of Treasury

  43. Who was Albert Gallatin?

  44. Who is Frederick Douglass?

  45. Who is Ida Wells?

  46. Who is Pocahontas?

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