Transcript Jeopardy Template

Round 1
Ultimate
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Round 2
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Abolitionism
Sectionalism
Supreme
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Economics
Civil War
Reconstruction
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This former slave was
the most important
black abolitionist; he
sought to use the
political system to end
slavery.
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Who is Frederick
Douglass?
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This radical abolitionist
founded The Liberator
and argued that the
North should secede from
the “wicked South.”
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Who is William
Lloyd Garrison?
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This Boston patrician
was known as
“abolitionism’s
Golden Trumpet.”
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Who is Wendell
Phillips?
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This law was put into
effect between 1836
and 1844 in response
to abolitionist talk in
Congress.
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What is the Gag
Resolution?
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This organization,
founded in 1817,
sought to send free
blacks to West Africa.
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What is the
American
Colonization
Society?
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Perhaps the most
important cause of
the Civil War, this
1854 law repealed the
36°30’ line.
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What is the
KansasNebraska Act?
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This 1848 proposed law
freaked out Southerners
because it sought to
ban slavery in the
Mexican Cession.
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What is the
Wilmot Proviso?
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This “transportation”
movement was particularly
reviled by the South since
it deliberately violated the
Fugitive Slave Law.
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What is the
Underground
Railroad?
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Although seen as a
convenient solution to
the expansion of
slavery in the West,
this principle resulted
in “Bloody Kansas.”
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What is Popular
Sovereignty?
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This senator was nearly
beaten to death in 1857
due to a fiery speech
against the slave-holding
South.
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Who is Charles
Sumner?
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In 1857, Chief Justice
Roger Taney ruled in this
case that the Missouri
Compromise was
unconstitutional.
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What is the Dred
Scott case?
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This 1842 Supreme Court
decision ruled that
Northern states could not
prevent slaves from being
returned to their masters.
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What is Prigg v.
Pennsylvania?
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Lincoln ignored this 1861
Supreme Court decision by
concerning habeas corpus
for a pro-Confederate
sympathizer.
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What is Ex Parte
Merryman?
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This 1866 decision
weakened the presidency
by ruling that a citizen
cannot be tried in a military
tribunal if a civilian court is
nearby.
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What is Ex Parte
Milligan?
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This 1859 Supreme Court
decision upheld the
Fugitive Slave Law of
1850.
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What is
Ableman v.
Booth (1859)?
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Henry Clay would have
been happy with this 1862
law that created a financial
institution larger than the
first two combined!
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What is the
National
Banking Act?
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This 1862 law paved the
way for the completion
of a transcontinental
railroad.
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What is the
Pacific Railway
Act?
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If you were willing to
move out West, the
government would give
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you land for free as a
result of this act.
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What is the
Homestead Act
(1862)?
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This was the new
currency of the Civil
War: Chase put his
mug on the $1 bill.
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What is a
Greenback?
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This 1861 act raised
customs duties
significantly to pay for
the costs of the war.
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What is the
Morrill Tariff?
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This violent incident
represented the
beginning of the
Civil War.
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What is the
Confederate
attack on Fort
Sumter?
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This Union “victory” in
September, 1862
opened the door for
Lincoln’s Emancipation
Proclamation.
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What is the
Battle of
Antietam?
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This July, 1863 battle
was the bloodiest of the
war and was the
military turning point of
the war.
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What is
Gettysburg?
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This July 21, 1861
engagement was the
first major land battle
of the Civil War.
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What is First
Bull Run
(Manassas)?
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The Union’s 1863
victory in this siege
gave the Union total
control of the
Mississippi River.
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What is
Vicksburg?
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These planter-inspired laws in
the South sought to return
the freedmen to as close a
condition of slavery as
possible while guaranteeing
the labor supply.
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What are the
Black Codes?
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This 1867 act resulted in
martial law in the South
and divided it into 5
military districts.
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What is the
Military
Reconstruction
Act of 1867?
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This Constitutional
Amendment gave
African Americans the
right to vote.
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What is the
Fifteenth
Amendment?
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This was Lincoln’s plan
to bring the southern
states back into the
Union when the war was
over.
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What is the
10% Plan?
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The southern states
were forced to ratify this
amendment before they
were finally readmitted
into the Union.
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What is the
Fourteenth
Amendment?
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PostReconstruction
Persuasion
Which
South?
Violence
Politics
Grab
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These postReconstruction laws
sought to segregate
blacks from white
society.
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What are
“Jim Crow”
Laws?
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This Harvard-educated
African American demanded
immediate political equality
for blacks and co-founded
the NAACP.
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Who is W. E. B.
Du Bois?
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This 1896 Supreme
Court decision stated
“separate but equal”
was constitutional.
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What is Plessy
v. Ferguson?
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This African American
leader advocated
“accommodation” in
order to focus on black
economic development.
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Who is Booker
T. Washington?
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These laws were the
most effective in
disenfranchising blacks,
even more than poll
taxes and literacy tests.
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What are
“grandfather
clauses?”
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This novel by Harriet
Beecher Stowe
highlighted the evils
of slavery and became
a best-seller.
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What is Uncle
Tom’s Cabin?
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This “mountain white”
writer claimed in The
Impending Crisis of the
South, that slavery was
bad for poor southern
whites.
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Who is Hinton
Helper?
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This politician stated in
1858 that “A House
Divided Cannot Stand.”
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Who is
Abraham Lincoln?
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Daniel Webster
convinced Northerners to
compromise in 1850 as a
result of this speech.
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What is the
of
March Speech?
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This southern pro-slavery
apologist claimed that
northern workers were
“wage slaves” while
southern slaves were happy
and cared for.
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Who is
George Fitzhugh?
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This southern sub-region
remained loyal to the
Union throughout the
Civil War.
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What is the
Border South?
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This southern sub-region
had the highest
percentage of its
population consisting of
slaves.
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What is the
Lower South?
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Two states in this
southern sub-region
were the last to abolish
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slavery, due to the 13
Amendment.
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What is the
Border South?
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States in this southern
sub-region waited to
secede until after the
war had begun.
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What is the
Middle South?
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This southern sub-region
had about 30% of its
population consisting of
slaves.
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What is the
Middle South?
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This 1831 rebellion in
Virginia left over 50
whites dead and scared
southerners into fiercely
opposing abolitionism.
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What is the Nat
Turner
Rebellion?
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This style of killing
in the South
reached its climax
in the 1890s.
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What are
lynchings?
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This abolitionist fanatic
(and his sons) killed
pro-slaveryites in
Kansas and Virginia
prior to the Civil War.
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Who is
John Brown?
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Grant signed these laws
in 1870 and 1871 in an
attempt to crush the Ku
Klux Klan.
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What are the
Enforcement
Acts (or Force
Acts)?
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This 1822 South Carolina
conspiracy was the
largest slave rebellion
that never happened.
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What is the
Denmark Vesey
Conspiracy?
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This party nearly became
the 2nd major party in
America by focusing
heavily on nativism.
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What is the
Know-Nothing
(American)
Party?
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This law became the
most controversial
aspect of the
Compromise of 1850.
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What is the
Fugitive Slave
Law?
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This 1860 proposal would
have guaranteed slavery
south of the 36°30’ line all
the way to California but
Lincoln vetoed it.
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What is the
Crittenden
Amendment?
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These northern Democrats
were pro-South and
favored Confederate
independence (and they
despised Lincoln).
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Who are the
Copperheads?
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In 1864, Lincoln
vetoed this bill—in
effect a 50% plan for
Reconstruction.
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What is the
Wade-Davis
Bill?
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This plan sought to
strangle the Confederacy
through a naval
blockade.
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What is the
Anaconda Plan?
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This post-Civil War
organization, founded by
General Oliver Howard,
sought to help former
slaves to adjust to life as
free people.
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What is the
Freedmen’s
Bureau?
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This secret declaration
sought to force Spain to
sell Cuba to the U.S., but
President Pierce ended
up with egg on his face.
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What is the
Ostend
Manifesto?
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This is the pejorative
term southerners used
to describe southern
Republicans who sought
to help the freedmen.
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What is
Scalawags?
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This state constitution
sought to bring Kansas
into the Union as a slave
state but was rejected by
Congress in 1857.
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What is the
LeCompton
Constitution?
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In the Lincoln-Douglas
debates, Lincoln supposedly
trapped Douglas into stating
that territories could
effectively outlaw slavery.
Douglas’ statement became
known as this.
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What is the
Freeport
Doctrine?
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