it’s time for... life in the 13 colonies jeopardy!
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Life in the Life in the 13 13
ColoniesColonies
Jeopardy!Jeopardy!
`Life in the 13 Colonies JEOPARDY’
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Vocabulary
FINAL JEOPARDY
People Big Ideas Places Pot pourri
$100In the south very large farms
were called __________
What are plantations?
$200a book filled with facts about
many subjects is called______.
What is an almanac?
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about his or her own life it is called ____________
What is an autobiography?
$400Rugged land near the
Appalachian Mountains is called ___________ .
What is the Backcountry?
$500The edge of a settled area,
beyond which, lies unexplored wilderness is
called _________.
What is a frontier?
$100Ben Franklin was well known
as a scientist and __________ .
What is an inventor?
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To pay the price of their passage to the colonies
many Europeans became ____________.
What are indentured servants?
$300Someone hired by a planter to make sure the slaves did all of their work was called
________
What is an overseer?
$400Benjamin Franklin organized the worlds first ___________.
What is volunteer Fire Department?
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People can start any business they want in the system
known as ________________
What is Free Enterprise?
$100He started the first public
library in America
Who is Ben Franklin?
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ships from New York and Boston crossed this ocean to
reach Africa.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
$300Ships leaving the West Indies traveled in this direction to
New York
What is west?
$400The English colonies were
located on which continent?
What is North America?
$500The trip from the West Indies to Boston was about this far.
What is 1,500 miles?
$100The economy of the south
grew mainly due to _________.
What is slavery?
$200The second leg of the
triangular trade was called ___________
What is “the Middle Passage?
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things exported from South Carolina to England in the
early 1700sWhat is Indigo?
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What effect did the slave trade have on the Africans
who came to America?What is they lost all of their freedom?
$500A climograph gives you this
information.”
What are changes in temperature or precipitation?
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Ben Franklin’s family
What is 17 ?
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newspaper
What is the Pennsylvania
Gazette?
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moving to the backcountry because ______
What is wealthy planters owned
most of the coastal land?
$400southern planters began using slaves instead of
indentured servants because _____
What is they could make more money
using slaves?
$500Ships captains who worked the Triangular Trade sailed
between New England, Africa, and __________
What are the West Indies.?
FINAL JEOPARDYFINAL JEOPARDY
What cargo did ships What cargo did ships carry from Africa to the carry from Africa to the
West Indies?West Indies?
WHAT are slaves?