AP US History Review Jeopardy

A six-category APUSH review board spanning Jamestown to the Cold War. Copy it free, put it on the projector, and let students buzz in from their phones.

6 categories · 30 clues · Final Jeopardy · everyone buzzes in from their phone

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Colonial America

$200
This 1607 Virginia settlement, founded by the Virginia Company, was the first permanent English colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
$400
This 1620 agreement, signed aboard ship before landing in Massachusetts, bound its signers to majority-rule self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
$600
This system of unfree labor, in which colonists worked several years for a master to pay off passage, defined most early Chesapeake immigrants.
What is indentured servitude?
$800
This 1739 revolt, in which enslaved South Carolinians seized weapons and killed several whites near a river, led to a harsher slave code.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
$1,000
This 18th-century religious revival, marked by itinerant preachers like George Whitefield, swept the colonies and challenged established church authority.
What is the Great Awakening?

Revolution and Founding

$200
Parliament passed this 1765 law requiring colonists to pay for a stamped seal on printed documents and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
$400
This 1774 gathering of delegates from twelve colonies met in Philadelphia to coordinate a response to the Coercive Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
$600
Written mainly by Thomas Jefferson, this document lists grievances against George III and asserts natural rights.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
$800
This 1787 gathering in Philadelphia, originally called to revise the Articles of Confederation, instead drafted a new frame of government.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
$1,000
This deal at the Constitutional Convention resolved a dispute between large and small states by creating a two-house legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?

Civil War and Reconstruction

$200
This 1850 law required citizens in free states to assist in capturing and returning escaped enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
$400
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that Black Americans could not be citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
$600
Issued by Lincoln in 1863, this executive order declared enslaved people in Confederate-held territory free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
$800
This 1865 constitutional amendment formally abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
$1,000
This 1867 law divided the former Confederacy into military districts and required new state constitutions guaranteeing Black male suffrage.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?

Gilded Age and Progressives

$200
This term for the late 1800s, coined by Mark Twain, describes an era of glittering wealth masking corruption and inequality.
What is the Gilded Age?
$400
This 1890 federal law was the first to outlaw monopolistic business trusts that restrained interstate trade.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
$600
This 1911 New York factory fire, which killed 146 mostly immigrant workers, spurred sweeping workplace safety reforms.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
$800
This 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry and helped spur food safety laws.
What is The Jungle?
$1,000
This 1913 constitutional amendment established a federal income tax.
What is the Sixteenth Amendment?

Depression and World Wars

$200
This 1929 stock market collapse marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash of 1929?
$400
This series of programs and reforms enacted by Franklin Roosevelt aimed to provide relief, recovery, and reform during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
$600
This December 1941 attack on a Pacific naval base brought the United States into World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
$800
This 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy opened a decisive western front against Nazi Germany.
What is D-Day?
$1,000
This top-secret US program during World War II developed the first atomic bombs.
What is the Manhattan Project?

Cold War to Now

$200
This 1947 policy, articulated by President Truman, pledged US support for nations resisting communist takeover.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
$400
This 1962 standoff over Soviet missiles ninety miles from Florida brought the US and USSR to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
$600
This 1954 Supreme Court decision declared racially segregated public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
$800
This 1965 law abolished national-origin quotas and reshaped US immigration patterns.
What is the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?
$1,000
This 1991 event, following the fall of the Berlin Wall two years earlier, marked the formal end of the Soviet Union.
What is the dissolution of the Soviet Union?

Final Jeopardy — Founding Documents

Ratified in 1781, this framework governed the United States with a one-house Congress but no executive or national courts until the Constitution replaced it.

What are the Articles of Confederation?

How to run this board

Built for the last weeks before the AP exam, this board walks the full APUSH timeline: the colonies, the founding, sectional crisis, industrialization, the world wars, and the Cold War era. Each category maps to a stretch of the course, so a weak column tells you exactly which unit needs another look.

Put the board on the projector, split the class into teams, and have one phone per team for buzzing. Because buzz order is decided server-side, there is no arguing about who was first.

One tip: require answers to include the period or decade. It forces the chronological thinking the DBQ rewards.

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