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JEOPARDY JEOPARDY JEOPARDY JEOPARDY JEOPARDY JEO RDY JEOPARDY JEOPARDY JEOPARDY JEOPARDY JEOPARDY HERE ARE TODAY’S CATEGORIES Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence The Civil War Begins Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence The Politics of the Civil War Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence Life During Wartime Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence The North Takes Charge Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence Civil War Pot Luck Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence National Impact of the Civil War Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence The Civil War Begins The Politics of War Life During Wartime The North Takes Charge Civil War Pot Luck National Impact $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 FINAL JEOPARDY Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence 4:30 am, April 12, 1861 Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence When did the Civil War begin? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence Under the command of Major Anderson, this Union-held fort sat in the middle of Charlestown Harbor and was shelled by over 4,000 round of Confederate cannon balls. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is Fort Sumter? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence Slave states Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri stayed in the Union. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What are the border states? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence This Union war strategy consisted of a naval blockade, controlling the Mississippi River, and capturing the Southern capital, Richmond, VA Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is the Anaconda Plan? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence This was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history. Casualties totaled more than 26,000, as many as in the War of 1812 and the war with Mexico combined. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is Antietam? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence Britain threatened war against the US when an American warship stopped a British merchant ship and arrested two Confederate diplomats traveling to England. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is the Trent Affair? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence As commander in chief, Lincoln issued an order authorizing the Union army to liberate slaves in rebel states. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is the Emancipation Proclamation? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence Lincoln violated a basic right when he arrested and held without trial Confederate sympathizers suspected of aiding the enemy. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is habeas corpus? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence This Union law drafted white men between 20 and 45 for three years, but allowed the rich to pay a $300 fee to avoid war. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is conscription? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence For four days in July, 1863, mobs rampaged through this city destroying draft offices, Republican newspaper offices, and the homes of antislavery leaders. They attacked well-dressed men on the street (those likely to be able to pay the $300 commutation fee) and attacked African Americans. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is New York City? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence This was the worst Confederate prison camp in Georgia where overcrowding, filth, and starvation killed about 10,000 Union prisoners. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is Andersonville? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence This soft lead bullet caused traumatic wounds that could only be treated by amputation Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is a minie ball? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence In 1863 Congress enacted a law that authorized the gov’t to pay for the war by taking a specified percentage of an individual’s earnings. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is the income tax? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence The US federal government set up this commission to improve the hygienic conditions of army camps and to recruit and train nurses Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is the US Sanitary Commission? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence After her courage under fire at Antietam, a surgeon described this nurse as the “angel of the battlefield.” Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence Who is Clara Barton? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence This epic 3 day battle in July, 1863 crippled the South so badly that General Lee would never again possess sufficient forces to invade a Northern state. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is Gettysburg? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence After a confederate victory at Chancellorsville, VA Lee commented about his fearless General, “he has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right.” Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence Who was Stonewall Jackson? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence Grant shelled this river city for hours a day for two months forcing the starving residents to eat dogs and mules. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is Vicksburg, Mississippi? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence In this November, 1863 dedication speech, Lincoln called for “a new birth of freedom.” Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is the Gettysburg Address? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence This Union General burned his way through Georgia stating he wanted to make Southerners “so sick of war” they wouldn’t fight again. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence Who was William Tecumseh Sherman? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence This Black regiment fought gallantly at Fort Wagner in South Carolina under the command of Robert Gould Shaw, an abolitionist. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is the Massachusetts th 54 Regiment? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence This Confederate push into Maryland proved disastrous and was the single bloodiest day in war. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is Antietam? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence Lee surrendered to Grant in April, 1865 at this Virginia village, 4 years after the start of the war at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is Appomattox Court House? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence It might be said that over 600,000 Americans died in the Civil War due to this part of the Constitution: “No Person held to Service or Labor in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall be discharged from such Service or Labor” Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is the Fugitive Slave Clause? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence In January, 1865, Congress finally pushed through an amendment that stated “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist in the United States.” Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence th 13 What is the Amendment? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence He was the most famous Civil War photographer whose images captured the harsh reality of war. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence Who was Mathew Brady? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence This Southern sympathizer killed Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington while the president watched a British comedy, Our American Cousin. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence Who was John Wilkes Booth? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence Lincoln’s assassin is said to have yelled this Latin phrase- “Thus be it ever to tyrants-” after shooting the president. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is sic semper tyrannis? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence During the war, this government reached into people’s pockets, taxing private incomes; it forced upon the people new paper currency and banking laws, and tore reluctant men from their families to fight in the war. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What is the federal government? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence After the war, they numbered approximately 4 million. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence What are newly freed slaves? Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence These are the approximate numbers of dead for the North and South, respectively. Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence 360,000 = N 260,000 = S Theme Timer Lose Cheer Boo Silence
