1. Civil War Jeopardy 10 20 30 40 Final Jeopardy ? Famous People
Important Battles
Slavery
Dividing Issues
North vs. South 10 20 30 40

2. The President during the Civil War
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson Davis
Category
Abraham Lincoln
Barrack Obama

3. The President of the Confederacy was_______.
Jefferson Davis
Dred Scott
Category
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln

4. These were two of the generals of the Confederate Army.
George Washington and Thomas Gage
Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson
Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman
George Meade and George McClellan

5. Molly Pitcher Betsy Ross Betty Crocker Clara Barton
A famous nurse who followed the fighting from battle to battle across the U.S. caring for Union soldiers and who founded the American Red Cross.
Molly Pitcher
Betsy Ross
Betty Crocker
Clara Barton

6. An attack on this place caused the Civil War to begin.
Fort Sumter
Fort McHenry
Camp David
The Alamo

7. This was the first battle of the War, and a big Confederate win.
Bunker Hill
Bull Run
Antietam
Gettysburg

8. Bull Run Appomattox Gettysburg Vicksburg
This was one of the deadliest battles of the Civil War in which more than 7,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed.
Bull Run
Appomattox
Gettysburg
Vicksburg

9. Yorktown Richmond Philadelphia Appomattox
This is where the Civil War ended and Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant
Yorktown
Richmond
Philadelphia
Appomattox

10. Those people who wanted to get rid of slavery were called _______.
abolitionists
followers
compromisers
conductors

11. The Hidden Express The Secret Passage
This was a system of secret escape routes leading to free lands.
The Underground Railroad
The Downtown Interstate
The Hidden Express
The Secret Passage

12. In the South, slavery was important because…
the slaves worked long hours in the factories.
the slaves enjoyed working to help their owners get wealthier.
they needed slaves to travel to Africa to bring back more slaves.
owners had come to depend on the work of slaves to farm their land.

13. This law forced northerners to catch runaway slaves and to be punished with fines or jail time if they did not.
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act

14. The Dred Scott Decision
This Compromise allowed the number of free states and slave states to remain equal.
The Compromise of 1850
The Missouri Compromise
The Dred Scott Decision
The Emancipation Proclamation

15. The North welcomed the high tariff on imported goods because…
most of the nation’s farms were located there.
they bought a lot of imported goods from Europe.
they enjoyed paying higher tariffs.
most of the nation’s factories were located there.

16. This case, which came to the Supreme Court, was an important milestone in the debate of whether slavery should be allowed in certain territories and decided that slaves were property.
The Dred Scott Case
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Gettysburg Address
The Compromise of 1850

17. This man was known as the “Great Compromiser” because of his work to settle the differences between the North and the South.
Andrew Jackson
Frederick Douglas
Henry Clay
William Garrison

18. Weaknesses of this side included being a new nation, not having a strong central government, and having a weak economy.
North
South

19. This side wanted the states to have more individual rights and the final say in their own affairs.
North
South

20. This side’s strategy included fighting a defensive war.
North
South

21. The only regiment made up entirely of African-Americans were fighting for this side.
North
South

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24. Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act and how that led to “Bleeding Kansas.”
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Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act and how that led to “Bleeding Kansas.”
In Kansas and Nebraska, citizens were allowed to vote to decide if they were going to have slavery or not. People from other states rushed in to cast their votes and fighting broke out between the two sides. More than 200 people were killed making it known as Bleeding Kansas.