Transcript Jeopardy The Game of Knowledge

Jeopardy
The Game of
Knowledge
The Road to War
Sectionalism
Abolitionists
Various
Events
Leading to
War
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Sectionalism $100?
We were known as the “War
Hawks” we were from the
North, South and West.
Sectionalism $100 Answer
Clay, Calhoun & Webster
Sectionalism $200?
we were the center of cottonproduction, contained only slave
states (with a population of more
than 4 million slaves), that
opposed high tariffs
Sectionalism $200 Answer
The South
Sectionalism $300?
Our politicians generally believed in states’
rights, an argument based on the 10th
Amendment that the United States was a
union of sovereign states which had the
right to judge whether a law passed by
Congress was constitutional. States’ rights
advocates also believed that federal
authority was limited.
Sectionalism $300 Answer
The South
Sectionalism $400?
Our politicians were split in their stand on the
issue of states’ rights.
Sectionalism $400 Answer
the West
Sectionalism $500?
This word means loyalty to one’s
region or state, instead of to the
entire nation
Sectionalism $500 Answer
Sectionalism
Abolitionists $100?
I was the publisher of “The North
Star”
Abolitionists $100 Answer
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionists $200?
I was a violent abolitionist
who was involved in
Bleeding Kansas and
Harper’s Ferry, Va.
Abolitionists $200 Answer
John Brown
Abolitionists $300?
I was the leader who helped to rescue
over 300 slaves from slavery in the
South.
Abolitionists $300 Answer
Harriet Tubman
Abolitionists $400?
I was the publisher of the
abolitionist newspaper “The
Liberator”
Abolitionists $400 Answer
William Lloyd Garrison
Abolitionists $500?
I led a revolt of slaves in Virginia in
1831. About 60 whites were killed by
him and his followers. Following the
rebellion, about 55 blacks were
executed by the state, but more than
200 were killed by white mobs in
retaliation.
Abolitionists $500 Answer
Nat Turner
Various $100?
This region was composed of:
• Cities
• Factory workers
• A developed industrial base
• They favored a high tariff
Various $100 Answer
The north
Various $200?
All these statements sparked what event:
• In 1824, the tariff was raised to 35%, over
Southern opposition.
• In 1828, the tariff was raised to 50%.
• South Carolina refused to collect the tariff of 1828
and the tariff of 1832
• President Andrew Jackson threatened to send
federal troops into the state to collect the tariff.
Various $200 Answer
The Nullification Crisis
Various $300?
This invention caused the production of
cotton to increase dramatically and slave
labor was the most economical way to
pick the cotton.
Various $300 Answer
The cotton gin
Various $400?
This type of impact deals with the decision was
based on the considerations of (property rights),
not moral grounds. The Courts decision meant
that property would be protected in the United
States. Since slaves were property, in effect the
Constitution protected slavery.
Various $400 Answer
Economic Impact
Various $500?
The Impact of this court case was:
• Living in a free state does not make a former
slave free.
• 􀂾 Congress had no right to prohibit slavery
because this would interfere with property rights.
Therefore the Missouri Compromise which
prohibited slavery in territories and states north
of the Missouri line was unconstitutional.
Various $500 Answer
Dred Scott
Events Leading to War $100?
This is a
map of
Events Leading to War $100 Answer
The Compromise of
1850
Events Leading to War $200
I wrote Uncle Toms Cabin
Events Leading to War $200 Answer
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Events Leading to War $300?
Partly as a response to “Bleeding Kansas,” a
new political party was formed. This party
participated in its first national election in 1856,
and was defeated. Abolitionists and anti-slavery
Northerners formed this party for the specific
purpose of keeping slavery from spreading to
any new territories. By winning state and
national elections, they hoped to gain enough
political power to make the spread of slavery
illegal. Many Southerners misinterpreted the
goals of the party to mean abolishing all slavery
in the United States.
Events Leading to War $300 Answer
The Republican Party
Events Leading to War $400?
This Republican candidate was
elected the 16th President of the
United States. He defeated two
Democrats. Although he
campaigned on the Republican
Platform of keeping slavery from
spreading, many Southerners
thought he was an abolitionist.
Events Leading to War $400 Answer
Abraham Lincoln
Events Leading to War $500?
This is part of what compromise:
• Popular sovereignty (voting) in the Utah and
New
Mexico Territories.
• In the rest of the Mexican Cession (land
acquired after the Mexican War) the people in
these areas would be allowed to vote on
whether to allow slavery in their territories.
Before this, Congress had always made that
decision. This allowed the possibility of
slavery in these territories.
Events Leading to War $500 Answer
Compromise of 1850