Transcript Civil War
JEOPARDY! Slavery Odds and Ends Civil War Hodgepodge Battles People Vocabulary Reconstruction 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 200 300 400 500 200 300 400 500 200 300 400 500 200 300 400 500 200 300 400 500 200 300 400 500 200 300 400 500 200 300 400 500 FINAL JEOPARDY Name two men man who led slave revolts. 100 Nat Turner and John Brown Slavery Who wrote a book called Uncle Tom’s Cabin that contradicted Christian teachings, destroyed black family structures, and was morally destructive to slave owners? 200 Harriet Beecher Stowe Slavery BONUS Bonus: What law applied the idea of popular sovereignty? Kansas-Nebraska Act Slavery Where was the Confederate capital located? 300 Richmond, Virginia Slavery What term describes the philosophy that the people in each new state were to choose on the issue of slavery? 400 Popular sovereignty Slavery What Supreme Court ruling states that a slave was a piece of property that the southern states strongly agreed with? 500 Dred Scott Decision Slavery What political party was formed in 1854 and did not support slavery? 100 Republican Odds and Ends What Southern belief was illustrated by the phrase “King Cotton”? 200 Cotton was the most important Southern crop. Odds and Ends What is the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union? 300 Secession Odds and Ends Who helped more than 300 slaves escape through the Underground Railroad? 400 Harriet Tubman Odds and Ends Who was the initial (first) general of northern forces? 500 George McLellan Odds and Ends BONUS BONUS: What federal agency was created during Reconstruction to provide assistance to former slaves and needy whites? Freedman's Bureau Odds and Ends What was the bloodiest DAY of the war? 100 Antietam Civil War What state was created during the Civil War from territory that broke away from a Confederate state? 200 West Virginia Civil War What were three Confederate advantages when the war started? 300 Better generals, defending their homes, fighting for a more personal cause Civil War What was the first major battle of the Civil War? 400 Bull Run. Civil War What made the Civil War the first truly modern war? 500 Iron clad ships, new weapons (rifles, for example), bullets, photography Odds and Ends BONUS BONUS: How did the Union finance the war? INDUSTRY! Also will accept: Income tax, bonds, printed “greenbacks” Civil War What was the event (that occurred on April 15, 1865) that allowed Radical Republicans to heavily influence the process of Reconstruction? 100 The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln Hodgepodge Southern states threatened to leave the union if __________ was elected president. 200 Abraham Lincoln Hodgepodge Where did Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrender to Grant? 300 Appomattox Courthouse Hodgepodge BONUS Bonus: Who became president as a result of the Compromise of 1877? Rutherford B. Hayes Hodgepodge What made slavery in the “rebelling” states illegal and made the destruction of slavery a war aim for the Union? 400 The Emancipation Proclamation Hodgepodge ___________ was a former slave, became a great orator and writer, published The Northern Star newspaper, and urged Lincoln to recruit former slaves to fight in the Union Army. 500 Fredrick Douglass Hodgepodge What battle proved that the Civil War was not going to be a short war? 100 st 1 Bull Run st (aka 1 Manassas) Battles What battle was the turning point of the war. (It proved that the South could be defeated.) 200 Gettysburg Battles What political event occurred as a result of the Battle of Antietam? 300 Emancipation Proclamation Battles What event began the Civil War? 400 The Southerners fired on Fort Sumter Battles What battle gave the North complete control of the Mississippi River? 500 Vicksburg Battles Who gave the Gettysburg Address? 100 Abraham Lincoln People Who was the Union general who marched through the South and burned Atlanta? 200 William T. Sherman People Who was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War? 300 Jefferson Davis People Who was the commander of Union forces at the end of the Civil War and was the North’s most successful general? 400 Ulysses S. Grant People Who was the abolitionist who contributed to violence in Kansas and planned a raid on Harper’s Ferry, VA? 500 John Brown People BONUS Bonus: How many military districts were established in the South during Reconstruction? FIVE People What term describes the period of time after the Civil War during which the South was punished by the North after the war? 100 Reconstruction Vocabulary What name was given to former slaves who paid rent to white landowners? 200 Tenant Farmers Vocabulary What was the nickname given to northerners who came south to get rich? 300 Carpetbaggers Cold War BONUS Bonus: Who proposed the idea of allowing states to use popular sovereignty to choose between freedom and slave state? Stephen Douglas Vocabulary What was the term for the Civil War that described how each side’s ENTIRE ECONOMY focused on supporting and fighting the war? 400 Total War Vocabulary What nickname was given to Southerners who supported the Republican government? 500 Scalawags Vocabulary What constitutional amendment outlawed slavery on a permanent basis? 100 The Thirteenth Amendment Reconstruction What amendment prohibited states from denying equal rights under the law to any American? 200 The Fourteenth Amendment Reconstruction What was a secret society (and terrorist group) formed to prevent African-Americans from voting? 300 Ku Klux Klan Reconstruction Which amendment guaranteed voting rights regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”? 400 Fifteenth Amendment Reconstruction In return for the support of Southern Democrats, the Republicans agreed to end the military occupation of the South in order to give their candidate the office of president. What is this deal known as? 500 Compromise of 1877 Reconstruction BONUS Bonus: The completion of the _______ soon after the War ended intensified the westward movement of settlers into the states between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. The Transcontinental Railroad Reconstruction FINAL JEOPARDY: What was the basis for the impeachment charges against President Andrew Johnson? answer He violated the Tenure of Office Act The End