READY-MADE CLASSROOM REVIEW
AP US History Jeopardy
AP US History. Project the board, share one room code, and keep the class on the same review.
Review before you host
Check the clues and answers for your group. Answers stay hidden during live play until the host reveals them.
Round 1
Colonial Foundations
$200The proprietary colony founded by George Calvert as a haven for Catholics.
$400Led by John Winthrop, this group intended to create a model community for other Christians.
$600The 1620 agreement signed by Pilgrims to establish a self-governing colony.
$800This 1619 legislative body was the first representative assembly in the English colonies.
$1000A massive religious revival in the 1730s and 1740s that challenged established authority.
Revolutionary Era
$200This pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued clearly for complete independence from Britain.
$400The turning point battle in New York that convinced France to join the war effort.
$600This 1783 treaty officially recognized the United States as an independent nation.
$800The act that required colonists to provide housing and supplies for British soldiers.
$1000The skirmishes in Massachusetts that marked the first military engagements of the revolution.
The Early Republic
$200The 1803 land deal that doubled the size of the United States under Thomas Jefferson.
$400The 1820 agreement that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
$600The 1823 policy warning European nations against colonizing the Western Hemisphere.
$800The policy of forcibly removing Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi.
$1000The principle that established the Supreme Court's power to declare laws unconstitutional.
Civil War & Reconstruction
$200This 1863 battle is often cited as the military turning point of the Civil War.
$400The series of laws passed in Southern states to restrict the freedom of Black citizens.
$600The executive order that declared enslaved people in Confederate states to be free.
$800The constitutional amendment that formally abolished slavery throughout the United States.
$1000The agency established to help freed people and poor whites in the South after the war.
Gilded Age & Progressivism
$200The muckraking journalist who wrote The Jungle to expose the meatpacking industry.
$400The 1896 Supreme Court case that legalized segregation under the separate but equal doctrine.
$600The practice of political machines granting jobs to loyal party workers.
$800The constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote nationwide.
$1000The law designed to break up monopolies and ensure fair business competition.
World War & Global Power
$200The president who proposed the Fourteen Points as a blueprint for world peace.
$400The 1941 legislation that allowed the US to lend weapons to the Allied powers.
$600The plan that provided massive economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after World War II.
$800The 1920s policy where the US avoided involvement in international political alliances.
$1000The telegram that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico.
Double Jeopardy
Colonial Foundations
$400This legal doctrine meant that women had no independent legal identity from their husbands.
$800The system of labor where individuals contracted to work for a fixed period for passage to America.
$1200The 1676 Virginia uprising that demonstrated widespread dissatisfaction with colonial government.
$1600The colonial trade network that included the exchange of enslaved people, molasses, and rum.
$2000The 1662 religious compromise that allowed partial church membership for children of unconverted parents.
Revolutionary Era
$400The 1786 uprising that revealed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
$800The 1776 battle that involved Washington crossing the Delaware River to defeat Hessian forces.
$1200The 1763 proclamation that forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
$1600The influential group of colonial protesters who organized boycotts against British taxes.
$2000The intellectual movement emphasizing reason and science that influenced revolutionary thinkers.
The Early Republic
$400The political faction led by Alexander Hamilton that favored a strong central government.
$800The concept that the US was divinely destined to expand across the continent.
$1200The 1848 gathering that focused on the movement for women's suffrage.
$1600The conflict between the US and Britain from 1812 to 1815 over maritime rights.
$2000The 1798 laws intended to suppress criticism of the government and limit immigrant influence.
Civil War & Reconstruction
$400The 1862 act that granted 160 acres of public land to settlers.
$800The secret network that assisted enslaved people in escaping to the North.
$1200The 1857 case where the Supreme Court ruled that Black people could not be citizens.
$1600The political compromise that ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South.
$2000The constitutional guarantee of equal protection under the law passed after the war.
Gilded Age & Progressivism
$400The organization founded by W.E.B. Du Bois to advance rights for Black Americans.
$800The 1913 legislation that created the modern central banking system in America.
$1200The philosophy of applying survival of the fittest to social and economic structures.
$1600The 1906 act that enforced sanitary standards in the food and drug industries.
$2000The policy of allowing businesses to operate without government interference.
World War & Global Power
$400The internment of Japanese Americans during the second World War.
$800The 1904 addition to the Monroe Doctrine that claimed the right to intervene in Latin America.
$1200The 1947 strategy of preventing the spread of communism into new areas.
$1600The post-WWII military alliance established to counter potential Soviet aggression.
$2000The 1962 confrontation between the US and the USSR over missiles in Cuba.
Final Jeopardy · Constitutional History
The 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled segregated public schools were unconstitutional.
