Antebellum
Persona
Pre-War
Politics
Chief
Executives
Terms
Kansas
Causes of
the War
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Final Jeopardy 5th Hour
• Visual
• Shelby Foote
Final Jeopardy 8th Hour
• Free to control their own finances and
economic affairs, the women of this polis,
had advantages that few cultures in world
history can point to as they owned 40% of
the land!
• Sparta
Antebellum Persona: 100
• His Proviso indicated that slavery should
not be permitted to extend into the
territories acquired in the war with Mexico?
• David Wilmot—The Wilmot Proviso
Antebellum Persona 200
• DOUBLE JEOPARDY
• “The little woman who started this great
war”
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
Antebellum Persona 300
• Forged the Great Compromise of 1850
• Henry Clay
Antebellum Persona 400
• The courageous person who risked his
political life to champion the cause of
Union during the compromise of 1850?
• Daniel Webster
Antebellum Persona 500
• The president “elects” in 1848, 1852, and 1856?
• Taylor, Pierce, and Buchannan
Pre-War Politics
100
• Elected primarily because he was a
Northerner who was NOT disagreeable to
the South?
• Pierce or Buchannan
Pre-War Politics
200
• ½ of the famous debating duo with
Abraham Lincoln in 1858—his “Freeport
doctrine” was a way to slowly eliminate
slavery in the territories.
• Stephen A. Douglass
Pre-War Politics
300
• The formal withdrawal of a state from the
union is….
• Secession
Pre-War Politics
400
• The most disagreeable component of the
Compromise of 1850 for Northerners?
• Fugitive Slave Law
Pre-War Politics
500
• The party created in 1856 from the “Free
Soil Party” and the Northern Abolitionist
democrats
• Republican Party
Chief Executives
• “The Doughface”
• James Buchannan
100
Chief Executives
200
• His death brought the untimely and
forgettable presidency of Millard Fillmore
• Zachary Taylor
Chief Executives
300
• DAILY DOUBLE
• This New Hampshire executive found that
his presidency was marred by personal
tragedy and alcoholism.
• Franklin Pierce
Chief Executives
400
• His stance did not include a concrete
platform for the abolition of slavery,
despite popular opinion.
• Abraham Lincoln
Chief Executives 500
• Attempted to reach out to the South by
nominating a pro-union Tennessean as his
VP candidate.
• Abraham Lincoln
Terms 100
• The constituents of a territory should
decide its status in slavery.
• Popular Sovereignty
Terms 200
• Body of Evidence
• Habeas Corpus
Terms 300
• Slaves are considered “property” without
legal rights to utilize the court system.
• Dred Scott decision
Terms 400
• The network of aboliitionists whose aim
was to help runaway slaves reach safe
harbor in the North.
• Underground Railroad
Terms 500
• Preventing a region from participating in
maritime commerce.
• Blockade
Kansas 100
• His massacre at Pottowatamie Creek
sponsored violence in the region.
• John Brown
Kansas 200
• The initial reason for pushing statehood in
Kansas/Nebraska?
• Building of a transcontinental Railroad
Kansas 300
• Visual Clue:
• Voting in Kansas
Kansas 400
• Offensive senator from Missouri whose
inflammatory remarks on the subject
sponsored violence
• David Atchison
Kansas 500
• This “constitution” was later endorsed as
the legitimate constitution of the territory
by President James Buchannan
• The LeCompton Constitution
Causes of the War 100
• Brooks-Sumner affair
Causes of the War 200
• His election brought about secession in
South Carolina
• Abraham Lincoln
Causes of the War 300
• John Brown’s raid at _______ prompted
fear amongst Southerners
• Harpers Ferry
Causes of the War 400
• This political party ceased to exist after
1856
• Whig Party
Causes of the War 500
• Amidst secession this president chose to
sit back and do absolutely nothing.
• James Buchannan
Tale of the
Tape
Thinkin
Lincoln
Potpurri
Battles
More
Battles
Generals
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Tale of the Tape: 200
• Possessed the more effective political
leadership?
• North
Tale of the Tape 400
• Had the “state department’s archive” in my
hat, held its first meetings in a hotel.
• Confederates
Tale of the Tape 600
• Had a distinct advantage in most “military”
areas including caliber of fighting men and
military leadership.
• Confederate
Tale of the Tape 800
• Possessed the Merrimac
• Confederate
Tale of the Tape 1000
• Felt that Britain would come to their
assistance as a result of their dependence
on textiles
• South
Thinkin Lincoln 200
• My homestate?
• Kentucky
Thinkin Lincoln 400
• DAILY DOUBLE
• Assassinated Lincoln in April of 1865
• John Wilkes Booth
Thinkin Lincoln 600
• My least favorite general?
• George McClellan
Thinkin Lincoln 800
• The event saved my re-election bid in
1864
• Sherman’s March to the Sea
Thinkin Lincoln 1000
• 1/1/1863
• Emancipation Proclamation
Potpurri 200
• 1820 law that put a boundary on slavery.
• Mo. Compromise
Potpurri 400
• Visual Clue
• Harriet Tubman
Potpurri 600
• Ironclads
• Merrimac and Monitor
Potpurri 800
• Land purchase in 1853 that completed the
“continental” United States
• Gadsden Purchase
Potpurri 1000
• Daily Double
• Exective Branch of the Confederacy (VP
and Pres)
• Alexander Stephens-VP
• Jefferson Davis-Pres.
Battles 200
• Pickett’s Charge
• Gettysburg
Battles 400
• The opening shot of the war was fired at
• Fort Sumter
Battles 600
• Union victory that saw McClellan “find” a
stroke of luck only to fail to capitalize?
• Antietam
Battles 800
• As part of the Overland campaign Grant
later lamented the charge that cost him
huge casualties.
• Cold Harbor
Battles 1000
• Saw the cities inhabitants of the city eating
rats and printing newspapers on the back
of old wall paper.
• Vicksburg
More Battles 200
• General who wanted to “make Georgia
howl”.
• William Tecumseh Sherman
More Battles 400
• Saw the death of Lee’s right hand manStonewall Jackson.
• Chancellorsville
More Battles 600
• The bloodiest day in American History
• Antietam
More Battles 800
• Death toll was as high as all other
American wars combined in this famed
Tennessee battle at a place whose name
means Peace.
• Shiloh
More Battles 1000
• Despite staggering death tolls inflicted
upon Grant’s men, the Union wins a huge
battle—total war is taking an enormous toll
on the Confederacy in May 1864.
• Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Generals
• Visual clue
• Ambrose Burnside
Generals 400
• “If _____ isn’t going to use the army, could
I please borrow it?”
• McClellan
Generals 600
• The South’s greatest general (pre-Lee)
who was killed at Shiloh
• Albert Sidney Johnson
Generals 800
• Gained fame for his victories at Shiloh and
Vicksburg, brought control of the West and
a fighting spirit.
• U.S. Grant
Generals 1000
• “The South’s Fightingest General”
• A.P Hill