Transcript Odds and Ends

JEOPARDY!
Civil War—Unit VII
Mr. Mayo
Mrs. Merritt
Mr. Bentley
US History
Slavery
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Civil War
Hodgepodge
Battles
People
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FINAL JEOPARDY
The Dred Scott v.
Sanford decision was
based on the assumption
that a slave was…
100
Piece of Property
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/act applied
the idea of popular
sovereignty?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Slavery
Who was the publisher of
the anti-slavery
newspaper, The Liberator?
300
William Lloyd Garrison
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 was the most
serious issue that divided
the North and South
prior to the Civil War ?
500
The southern states
wanted slavery to
extended into the new
Territories
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 were the four
border states?
300
Maryland, Kentucky,
Delaware, Missouri
Odds and Ends
Who helped more than
300 slaves escape through
the Underground
Railroad?
400
Harriet Tubman
Odds and Ends
How did the South
benefit from the
Compromise of 1850 ?
500
Tougher Fugitive slave
laws .
Odds and Ends
BONUS
BONUS:
How was popular
sovereignty affected by the
Dred Scott case?
Congress could not
prohibit slavery in the
U.S. territories
Odds and Ends
How could the draft be
legally avoided?
100
You could hire a
substitute or pay a fee
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 unique about
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the 54 Massachusetts
regiment?
400
It was the first all
African-American unit.
Civil War
What made the Civil War
the first truly modern
war?
500
Iron clad ships, new
weapons (rifles, for
example), bullets,
photography
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BONUS
BONUS:
How did the Union finance
the war?
Income tax, bonds,
printed “greenbacks”
Civil War
What decision made
the Missouri
Compromise
unconstitutional?
100
Dred Scott
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:
What was the result of
the Lincoln-Douglas
debates in 1858 ?
Abraham Lincoln gained
national attention
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?
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Bull Run
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(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:
What abolitionist participated in
Bleeding Kansas ?
John Brown
People
FINAL JEOPARDY
Presidents
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FINAL JEOPARDY:
Who was the President
before Abraham Lincoln
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James Buchanan
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