JEOPARDY!
SlaveryOddsandEnds Civil War Hodge- podge BattlesPeopleVocabularyReconstruction FINAL JEOPARDY
Name two men man who led slave revolts. 100
Nat Turner and John Brown 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 applied the idea of popular sovereignty?
Kansas-Nebraska Act Slavery
Where was the Confederate capital located? 300
Richmond, Virginia 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 Supreme Court ruling states that a slave was a piece of property that the southern states strongly agreed with? 500
Dred Scott Decision 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 is the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union? 300
Secession Odds and Ends
Who helped more than 300 slaves escape through the Underground Railroad? 400
Harriet Tubman Odds and Ends
Who was the initial (first) general of northern forces? 500
George McLellan Odds and Ends BONUS
BONUS: What federal agency was created during Reconstruction to provide assistance to former slaves and needy whites?
Freedman's Bureau Odds and Ends
What was the bloodiest DAY of the war? 100
Antietam 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 the first major battle of the Civil War? 400
Bull Run. Civil War
What made the Civil War the first truly modern war? 500
Iron clad ships, new weapons (rifles, for example), bullets, photography Odds and Ends BONUS
BONUS: How did the Union finance the war?
INDUSTRY! Also will accept: Income tax, bonds, printed “greenbacks” Civil War
What was the event (that occurred on April 15, 1865) that allowed Radical Republicans to heavily influence the process of Reconstruction? 100
The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln 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: Who became president as a result of the Compromise of 1877?
Rutherford B. Hayes 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? 100
1 st Bull Run (aka 1 st 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: How many military districts were established in the South during Reconstruction?
FIVE People
What term describes the period of time after the Civil War during which the South was punished by the North after the war? 100
Reconstruction Vocabulary
What name was given to former slaves who paid rent to white landowners? 200
Tenant Farmers Vocabulary
What was the nickname given to northerners who came south to get rich? 300
Carpetbaggers Cold War BONUS
Bonus: Who proposed the idea of allowing states to use popular sovereignty to choose between freedom and slave state?
Stephen Douglas Vocabulary
What was the term for the Civil War that described how each side’s ENTIRE ECONOMY focused on supporting and fighting the war? 400
Total War Vocabulary
What nickname was given to Southerners who supported the Republican government? 500
Scalawags Vocabulary
What constitutional amendment outlawed slavery on a permanent basis? 100
The Thirteenth Amendment Reconstruction
What amendment prohibited states from denying equal rights under the law to any American? 200
The Fourteenth Amendment Reconstruction
What was a secret society (and terrorist group) formed to prevent African-Americans from voting? 300
Ku Klux Klan Reconstruction
Which amendment guaranteed voting rights regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”? 400
Fifteenth Amendment Reconstruction
In return for the support of Southern Democrats, the Republicans agreed to end the military occupation of the South in order to give their candidate the office of president. What is this deal known as? 500
Compromise of 1877 Reconstruction BONUS
Bonus: The completion of the _______ soon after the War ended intensified the westward movement of settlers into the states between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean.
The Transcontinental Railroad Reconstruction
FINAL JEOPARDY: What was the basis for the impeachment charges against President Andrew Johnson? answer
He violated the Tenure of Office Act The End