US history review: Jeopardy template

Founding, the Constitution, the Civil War, presidents and the 20th century. Five categories, 25 clues and a final clue. Play it online with team scores, or edit any clue first.

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Founding

Value	Clue	Answer
100	Year the Declaration of Independence was adopted.	1776
200	Main author of the Declaration of Independence.	Thomas Jefferson
300	The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded 1607.	Jamestown
400	1773 protest where colonists dumped tea into a harbor.	The Boston Tea Party
500	The 1783 treaty that ended the Revolutionary War.	The Treaty of Paris

Constitution

Value	Clue	Answer
100	The first ten amendments to the Constitution.	The Bill of Rights
200	The three branches of the federal government.	Legislative, executive and judicial
300	The two houses of Congress.	The Senate and the House of Representatives
400	The system that lets each branch limit the others.	Checks and balances
500	The amendment that abolished slavery.	The 13th Amendment

Civil War

Value	Clue	Answer
100	President of the United States during the Civil War.	Abraham Lincoln
200	Lincoln’s 1863 order declaring enslaved people in Confederate states free.	The Emancipation Proclamation
300	1863 battle in Pennsylvania often called the war’s turning point.	The Battle of Gettysburg
400	Confederate general who surrendered at Appomattox in 1865.	Robert E. Lee
500	The period of rebuilding the South after the war.	Reconstruction

Presidents

Value	Clue	Answer
100	The first president of the United States.	George Washington
200	President who made the Louisiana Purchase.	Thomas Jefferson
300	The only president elected to more than two terms.	Franklin D. Roosevelt
400	President whose New Deal responded to the Great Depression.	Franklin D. Roosevelt
500	The only president to resign from office.	Richard Nixon

20th century

Value	Clue	Answer
100	The stock market crash of 1929 began this economic crisis.	The Great Depression
200	The 1941 attack that brought the US into World War II.	Pearl Harbor
300	1954 Supreme Court case that ruled school segregation unconstitutional.	Brown v. Board of Education
400	He gave the “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.	Martin Luther King Jr.
500	The 1969 mission that first landed people on the Moon.	Apollo 11

Final clue

This amendment, ratified in 1920, guaranteed women the right to vote.

Answer: The 19th Amendment

Using this board in class

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