Jeopardy Civil War Q 1 Q 6 Q 11 Q 16 Q 21 Q 2 Q 7 Q 12 Q 17 Q 22 Q 3 Final Jeopardy

Question 1 Describe the North before the Civil War.

Answer 1 What is --the North was mainly an urban society in which people held jobs ?

Question 2 Describe the South before the Civil War.

Answer 2 What is --the South was primarily an agricultural society in which people lived in small villages and on farms and plantations ?

Question 3 Describe the economy of the North.

Answer 3 What is --the North was a manufacturing region, and its people favored tariffs that protected factory owners and workers from foreign competition ?

Question 4 Describe the economy of the South.

Answer 4 What is --Southerners opposed tariffs that would cause prices of manufactured goods to increase. Planters were also concerned that England might stop buying cotton from the South if tariffs were added ?

Question 5 Define tariff.

Answer 5 What is --a fee placed on goods ?

Question 6 This was the important constitutional conflict between the North and the South.

Answer 6 What is --states’ rights, which the South favored, versus strong central government, which the North favored ?

Question 7 This is considered a main reason of the Civil War.

Answer 7 What is --slavery ?

Question 8 The South felt this way about slavery.

Answer 8 What was --that the abolition of slavery would destroy their region’s economy?

Question 9 The North felt this way about slavery.

Answer 9 What is --that slavery should be abolished for moral reasons ?

Question 10 The South felt this way about the Federal government.

Answer 10 What is --that Southerners had the power to declare any national law illegal ?

Question 11 The North felt this way about the Federal government.

Answer 11 What is --that the national government’s power was supreme over that of the states ?

Question 12 These were the four dividing issues between the North and the South that led to the Civil War.

Answer 12 What were 1. slavery 2. economic issues 3. cultural issues 4. Constitutional issues ?

Question 13 Explain the Missouri Compromise.

Answer 13 What is --Missouri became a slave state and Maine a free state?

Question 14 The Missouri Compromise occurred in this year.

Answer 14 What was --1820 ?

Question 15 Explain the Compromise of 1850.

Answer 15 What is --California was a free state and the Southwest territories would decide for themselves about slavery ?

Question 16 Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Answer 16 What is --the people decided the slavery issue (“popular sovereignty”) ?

Question 17 Define popular sovereignty.

Answer 17 What is --the people have the decision by voting ?

Question 18 Define succession.

Answer 18 What is --to leave being a part of a group ?

Question 19 This event started the Civil War.

Answer 19 What is --following Lincoln’s election, the southern states seceded from the Union and Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina ?

Question 20 Lincoln and other Northerners felt this about secession.

Answer 20 What is --they believed that the United States was one nation that could not be separated or divided ?

Question 21 Southerners felt this way about secession.

Answer 21 What was --they believed that states had freely created and joined the union and could freely leave it ?

Question 22 Name the states which seceded from the Union.

Answer 22 What were 1. Alabama 2. Arkansas 3. Florida 4. Georgia Louisiana 6. Mississippi 7. North Carolina 8. South Carolina 9. Tennessee 10. Texas 11. Virginia ?

Question 23 These states were border states that stayed in the Union.

Answer 23 What were 1. Delaware 2. Kentucky 3. Maryland 4. Missouri ?

Question 24 This new state was formed at the beginning of the Civil War.

Answer 24 What was --West Virginia ?

Question 25 Identify Jefferson Davis.

Answer 25 Who was --the president of the Confederate States of America?

Final Jeopardy These states were free states.

Final Jeopardy Answer What are 1. Cal. 2. Conn. 3. Ill. 4. Ind. 5. Iowa 6. Kan. 7. Maine 8. Mass. 9. Mich. 10. Minn. 11. N.H. 12. N.J. 13. N.Y. 14. Ohio Ore. 16. Penn. 17. R.I. 18. Vermont 19. W.V. and 20 Wisconsin ?