Jeopardy Antebellum Civil War Reconstruction Reconstruction Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Gilded Age $100 Question from Antebellum A system in which the residents vote to decide an issue $100 Answer from Antebellum What is popular sovereignty? $200 Question from Antebellum A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas $200 Answer from Antebellum What is the Underground Railroad? $300 Question from Antebellum A law enacted as part of the Compromise of 1850, designed to ensure that escaped slaves are returned $300 Answer from Antebellum What is the Fugitive Slave Act? $400 Question from Antebellum The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union $400 Answer from Antebellum What is secession? $500 Question from Antebellum President Lincoln’s primary goal when he was elected President in 1860 $500 Answer from Antebellum What is preserving the Union? $100 Question from Civil War A three part strategy by which the Union proposed to defeat the Confederacy during the Civil War $100 Answer from Civil War What is the Anaconda Plan? $200 Question from Civil War An executive order issued by Lincoln freeing the slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines $200 Answer from Civil War What is the Emancipation Proclamation? $300 Question from Civil War The most immediate result of Abraham Lincoln’s election of the presidency in 1860 $300 Answer from Civil War What is several Southern States seceding from the Union? $400 Question from Civil War Reasons for Southern States to secede from the Union $400 Answer from Civil War What are states rights, having the decision of whether to keep slavery or not, and thought that Lincoln was going to abolish slavery? $500 Question from Civil War The institution of slavery was Formally abolished in the United States by this amendment $500 Answer from Civil War What is the 13th Amendment? $100 Question from Reconstruction All persons born in the US (including former slaves) were citizens of the country and guaranteed equal protection $100 Answer from Reconstruction What is the 14th Amendment? $200 Question from Reconstruction The period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War $200 Answer from Reconstruction What is Reconstruction? $300 Question from Reconstruction Allowed Hayes to become President and ended Reconstruction $300 Answer from Reconstruction What is the Compromise of 1877? $400 Question from Reconstruction Prohibits the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color or because of previous servitude $400 Answer from Reconstruction What is the 15th Amendment? $500 Question from Reconstruction Discriminatory laws passed Throughout the post Civil War South which severely limited freedmen $500 Answer from Reconstruction What are Black Codes? $100 Question from Reconstruction The passage of Jim Crow laws in the South limited the effectiveness of these amendments $100 Answer from Reconstruction What are the 14th & 15th Amendments? $200 Question from Reconstruction Ten years following the Civil War, a large number of former slaves earned a living by doing this $200 Answer from Reconstruction What is sharecropping? $300 Question from Reconstruction The name of President Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan $300 Answer from Reconstruction What is the 10% Plan? $400 Question from Reconstruction Congressmen who advocated full Citizenship rights for African Americans along with a harsh Reconstruction policy toward the South $400 Answer from Reconstruction Who are the Radical Republicans? $500 Question from Reconstruction President Johnson was impeached for this $500 Answer from Reconstruction What is the firing of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton? $100 Question from Gilded Age Term coined by Mark Twain to describe the façade of prosperity $100 Answer from Gilded Age What is the Gilded Age? $200 Question from Gilded Age This person was the political boss of New York City’s Tammany Hall $200 Answer from Gilded Age Who is William Marcy Tweed (Boss Tweed)? $300 Question from Gilded Age This term best defines a person who used ruthless/cutthroat business tactics to make millions $300 Answer from Gilded Age What is a robber baron? $400 Question from Gilded Age The illegal use of political Influence for personal gain $400 Answer from Gilded Age What is graft? $500 Question from Gilded Age Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act were attempts by Congress to… $500 Answer from Gilded Age What is regulate the activities of big business?