Transcript Who Wants to be a Millionaire review game

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The US Concept of “Manifest
Destiny” reflected the belief that the
United States was
A: destined to spread over the total continent.
B: a “chosen people” and should multiply.
C: destined to become a world power.
D: to be a religious nation.
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A: destined to spread over the
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destined to spread over
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the total continent.
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Which definition best explains the
“Missouri Compromise”?
A: It allows slavery in Maine but did
not allow slavery in Missouri.
B: It required that slaves captured in
free states be returned to slave states.
C: It maintained a balance of power
between slave and free states.
D: It said that Missouri could have
slavery.
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C: It maintained a balance of
power
between
slave
and
free
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states.
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Which statement does not explain
how the Dred Scott decision pushed
the nation closer to war?
A: The Supreme Court ruled against
abolitionists saying slaves were not citizens.
B: The Supreme Court ruled that the federal
government could not stop slavery in territories.
C: The Supreme Court upheld the legal rights of the
southern states and their institution of slavery.
D: The Supreme Court ruled that slave owners had to be
reimbursed for slaves who escaped on the underground
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D: The Supreme Court ruled
that slave owners had to be
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slaves who
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escaped
on the underground
railroad.
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According to the terms of the
Compromise of 1850,
A: California was allowed to enter the Union
as a free state with no slavery.
B: All slavery was eliminated in the District of
Columbia.
C: Popular Sovereignty was established, allowing
states to vote on whether or not to have slavery.
D: Texas was allowed to annex New Mexico,
extending slavery into that territory.
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A: California was allowed to
enter the Union as a free
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state with no slavery.
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Which was an organized escape plan for
southern slaves fleeing their owners?
A: The slave revolt
B: The slave code
C: The underground railroad
D: Fugitive Slave Law
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C:
The
Underground
Railroad
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Which southern state was not among the
original seven that formed the
Confederate States of America in 1861?
A: Georgia
B: Texas
C: Alabama
D: Virginia
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D: Virginia
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Which conflict did Georgians face after
Lincoln’s election?
A: The conflict between the North and
the South over industrial development
B: The conflict between slavery and the
illegality of slavery
C: The conflict between North and
South over tariffs
D: The conflict between states’ rights
and Union rights
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D: The conflict between states’
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Which result of the Compromise of 1850
did not benefit the North?
A: California joined the Union as a
free state.
B: Slave trading ended in the
District of Columbia.
C: Texas did not annex New
Mexico as a slave territory.
D: Congress passed a law allowing fugitive
slaves to be returned to their owners.
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D: Congress passed a law
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Which woman was a nurse during the
Civil War and went on to establish the
American Red Cross?
A: Mary Boykin Chestnut
B: Phoebe Pember
C: Clara Barton
D: Mary Todd Lincoln
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C: Clara
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Once slavery was legalized in Georgia in 1751,
it grew dramatically because of Georgia’s?
A: industry-based economy.
B: mixed economy.
C: agriculture-based economy.
D: slavery economy.
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C: agriculture-based economy.
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Which document said that all slaves in the
states in rebellion would be free?
A: Georgia’s Secession Document
B: Gettysburg Address
C: Georgia Platform
D: Emancipation Proclamation
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B: Emancipation Proclamation
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Which battle was important because it
temporarily kept the Union army out of
Georgia?
A: Gettysburg
B: Antietam
C: Andersonville
D: Chickamauga
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D: Chickamauga
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Which Civil War battle location
was the “turning point” toward a
Union victory?
A: Antietam, Maryland
B: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
C: Gettysburg, Maryland
D: Chickamauga, Georgia
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Why was Chickamauga important to
the North and South?
A: It was a railroad center.
B: It was a major recruiting center
for the South.
C: It was located halfway between
two state capitals.
D: It had a number of factories that
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Where did the bloodiest one day
battle of the Civil War take place?
A: Antietam
B: Gettysburg
C: Shiloh
D: Vicksburg
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A: Antietam
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Which was not an underlying cause
of the Civil War?
A: Sectionalism
B: Representation in the U. S. Congress
C: Slavery
D: States’ Rights
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B: Representation
in the
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U. S. Congress
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Which Union war strategy prevented the South from
shipping its cotton to England and France in return
for weapons and other supplies?
A: invading each state’s capital
B: capturing southern generals.
C: blockade of Southern ports.
D: foraging civilian supplies.
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C: blockade of
Southern
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Which strategy was NOT part of the
North’s plan for winning the war?
A: the Anaconda Plan
B: the blockade of Southern ports
C: King Cotton Diplomacy
D: foraging civilian supplies
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C: King Cotton Diplomacy
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Atlanta’s military importance to the
Confederacy and thus a target in the Atlanta
Campaign by the Union is that it was the
A: capital of the Confederacy.
B: most populated city in the Confederacy.
C: industrial and transportation
center of the Confederacy.
D: home of the largest number of slaves in
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transportation
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All of the following were abolitionists
EXCEPT
A: Clara Barton
B: William Lloyd Garrison
C: Harriet Tubman
D: Frederick Douglass
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What Union General led the northern Army on
its March to the Sea and saw to it that much of
Georgia’s capital resources were destroyed?
A: Ulysses S. Grant
B: Stonewall Jackson
C: Robert E. Lee
D: William T. Sherman
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Sherman
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Where was the notorious Confederate
prison in Georgia?
A: Alcatraz
B: Andersonville
C: Belle Isle
D: Fulton
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B: Andersonville
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Who was the commander of the
Confederate prison at Andersonville?
A: Henry Wirz
B: George Murphy
C: John Hood
D: John C. Calhoun
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The “Georgia Platform”
was a statement supporting?
A: states’ rights
B: popular sovereignty
C: the Compromise of 1850
D: slavery throughout the US
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C:
the
Compromise
of
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How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act
change the Missouri Compromise?
A: It made Missouri a free state.
B: It created the territories of
Kansas and Nebraska.
C: It permitted slavery north of
Missouri’s southern boundary.
D: It changed the requirements necessary for a
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C: It permitted slavery
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The purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act which
the Northern Congressmen agreed to add to
the Compromise of 1850 was to?
A: require slaves to have citizenship
papers in order to obtain jobs
B: prevent slaves from testifying
against whites in courts
C: require slaves that had runaway
to go back to their owners
D: prevent slaves from having
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C: Require slaves that
had runaway to go back
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to their owners
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What official position in the
Confederate States of America did
Alexander Stephens hold?
A: Vice President
B: President
C: Secretary of State
D: Secretary of War
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States’ rights can best be defined as
the belief that states
A: could not free slaves.
B: could leave the Union if they wished.
C: could ignore national laws that were
harmful to the state.
D: interests took precedence over the interest
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D: interests took
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In 1861, there was a spirited debate in the GA
General Assembly about if the state should join the
other southern states in breaking away from the
Union. Which man called for GA to remain in the
Union?
A: Joseph Brown
B: Thomas Cobb
C: Robert Toombs
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D: Alexander Stephens
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What was Abraham Lincoln’s official
stand on slavery during the
Presidential campaign of 1860?
A: African Slave Trade should
be ended immediately.
B: Slavery should not be allowed to
spread into the new territories.
C: A Constitutional Convention should
be held to resolve the issue.
D: All slaves within the US should be
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B: Slavery should not be
allowed to spread into the
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new territories.
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One states’ rights issue was the nullification
crisis in the early 1830s. All of the following
are true relating to this crisis EXCEPT
A: The North supported high tariffs to subsidize
their manufacturing industry
B: The South was opposed to tariffs because it raised the
price of foreign made goods that they wanted to purchase.
C: The South was opposed to this tariff because it took
away profit from cotton farmers.
D: Great Britain wanted to form an alliance with
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D: Great Britain wanted to
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alliance
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manufacturing
in the North.
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What is the ability for the states to
decide for themselves if they would
be slave or free?
A: nullification
B: popular sovereignty
C: states’ rights
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Bleeding Kansas was
caused when
A: John Brown and other abolitionists raided
Harpers Ferry.
B: Pro and anti-slavery supporters flooded Kansas
to vote for or against slavery.
C: the Georgia General Assembly voted for
secession.
D: the Dred Scott decision was announced.
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B: pro and anti-slavery
supporters flooded Kansas
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During the Election of 1860, which
Presidential candidate received the
SMALLEST number of votes in Georgia?
A: John Breckenridge, Southern Democratic Party
B: Stephen A. Douglas, Northern Democratic Party
C: Abraham Lincoln, Republican Party
D: John Bell, Constitutional Union Party
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C: Abraham
Lincoln,
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Republican
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What was Sherman’s campaign through Georgia
called that created a path of destruction 300 miles
long and 60 miles wide in which he and his men
destroyed everything of value to Georgia’s citizens?
A: March to the Sea
B: Bleeding Georgia
C: Destruction of Atlanta
D: Battle of Chickamauga
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March
to
the
Sea
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Why was Georgia often referred to
as the “Heart of Confederacy”
during the Civil War?
A: Georgia was the site of most of the military
victories.
B: Georgia’s soldiers fought harder than those from other
confederate states.
C: Robert E. Lee once referred to Georgia by that term and
the name remained.
D: Georgia had the best railroads and more industry than
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D: Georgia had the best
railroads and more industry
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than other Confederate
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states.
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Who was the president of the
Confederate States of America?
A: Jefferson Davis
B: Alexander Stephens
C: Abraham Lincoln
D: Ulysses S. Grant
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A: Jefferson Davis
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After the destruction caused by his march
through Georgia, why did General Sherman
refrain from burning Savannah ?
A: He spared the hometown of his West
Point roommate.
B: He gave Savannah to President Lincoln as
a Christmas gift.
C: He protected over $28 million worth of
cotton stored in Savannah.
D: He had divided the upper and lower Confederacy
and so did not need to destroy the city.
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C: He protected over $28
million
worth
of
cotton
stored
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Savannah.
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The South needed to keep its ports
open during the war
A: to maintain its navy for attacks
on northern seaports.
B: to maintain the only major
transportation resources in the South.
C: to ship and sell its cotton in Europe
in exchange for supplies and arms.
D: to protect the privateers who were
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C: to ship and sell its
cotton
in
Europe
in
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for
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and
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arms.
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What contributed to the lack of
success of the Union blockade?
A: The South had a superior way.
B: Blockade runners slipped through the
blockade.
C: Great Britain found other ways to
trade with the South.
D: The Union did not have enough
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B: Blockade runners slipped
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Which statement does not describe
an advantage of the Union forces
during the Civil War?
A: The North had a standing or
established army or navy.
B: The North had heavy railroad tracks
and more miles of track.
C: The North had many more factories
that could produce war materials.
D: The North had home-field advantage because
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D: The North had home-field
advantage because most
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battles were fought in their
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states.
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All of the following were characteristics
of the South EXCEPT
A: economy based on agriculture
B: more men of combat age
C: owned most of the slaves
D: more rural areas
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