Civil War Jeopardy
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Politics
Slavery
Compromises
Fighting
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This new political party emerged in
the 1850s. It opposed the
expansion
of slavery and
The Republicans
supported economic
development.
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There were a total of 4 candidates.
Since the Democrats could not
What allowed Abraham Lincoln to
decide on just one, both Douglas
win the 1860 presidential election?
and Breckinridge ran, which
divided Democratic voters.
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In ruling that Congress could not
outlaw slavery in a state or
How did the Supreme Court
territory (i.e. overturning the MO
decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford
Compromise), it became
limit the legal actions of
impossible to outlaw slavery
abolitionists?
nationwide without a
constitutional amendment.
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Admitting Missouri, a slave state,
would have given slave states an
advantage
in the U.S. oppose
Senate.
Why did northerners
admitting Missouri as a state until
the Missouri
The
Missouri Compromise?
Compromise
maintained this balance by also
admitting Maine as a free state.
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How many electoral votes did
Lincoln win from
Zerosouthern states
in the election 1860?
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False.
True
orof
False…
Most
southern
Only
25%
southern
whites
owned
owned
slaves.
slaves.whites
Most were
too
poor to buy
them.
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What
It freed
did the
the slaves
Emancipation
in the
Confederate
Proclamation
states.
do?
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According to Lincoln’s First
Inaugural
To preserve
Address,
thewhat
Union
was the
original purpose of the Civil War?
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False… In his 1858 speech in the
True
Lincoln-Douglas
or False... Lincoln
debates,
believed
he said
in
that he did
racial
not believe
equality.
blacks and
whites were intellectually equal.
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Slavery for 500
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WhatCommander
power did Lincoln
use
to
in Chief
issue the Emancipation
(War
Powers)
Proclamation?
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What compromise outlawed slavery
in the
TheLouisiana
Missouri Compromise
Territory north of
the line 36º30’?
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed
the Kansas and Nebraska
How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act
territories to decide the slavery
deal with the slavery issue?
issue through popular sovereignty
(by voting).
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Maine
Other was
thanadmitted
outlawingtoslavery
the Union
north
as
a free
of state
the line
and36º30,
Missouri
whatentered
did theas
Missouri
a slave
Compromise
state.
do?
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The Compromise of 1850
California admitted as a free state.
Slave trade (but not slavery) banned
inIdentify
Washington,
D.C.parts of the
the four
Utah
and New Mexico
territories
to
Compromise
of 1850
that dealt
decide slavery
popular
with through
slavery?
sovereignty
The Fugitive Slave Act passed
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What violent event was a direct
result“Bleeding
of the Kansas-Nebraska
Kansas”
Act?
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This was the name of the Union’s
strategy of suffocating the
Confederacy through a naval
The Anaconda Plan
blockade, controlling the
Mississippi River, and marching
across the deep South.
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By waging total war & using
scorched earth tactics, Sherman’s
troops made life very
What made Sherman’s March to the
uncomfortable for southern
Sea militarily effective?
civilians and destroyed any
resources that would have been
useful to the Confederate army.
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Gettysburg
Identify the one
battle that is widely
seen as a “turning
OR point” in the
Civil War?
Vicksburg
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Identify the first battle of the Civil
First Battle: Fort Sumter
War?
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New Weapons + Old Tactics = Death
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The armies used Napoleonic tactics
made
the Civil
War
so
(likeWhat
head-on
charges
over
open
bloody?
ground), but new
weapons (such as
pointed bullets, spiral-bored rifles,
and artillery shells) made this
almost suicidal.
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John Brown hoped to use the
What
weapons
was the
hemain
seized
goal
to of
start
John
a
massive
Brown’sslave
Raidrebellion
on Harper’s
thatFerry,
would
eventually lead
VA?to the end of
slavery.
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Who was the most famous
“conductor”
Harriet
onTubman
the Underground
Railroad?
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There were many abolitionists but
some famous ones include…
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Identify
Frederick
Douglass
a famous
abolitionists.
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Abraham Lincoln
• John Brown
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1. Slavery
Name the three major causes of the
2. Sectionalism
Civil War?
3. States’ Rights
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Fight a War of Attrition
(make
it long
expensive)
What was
theand
Confederacy’s
strategy for winning the Civil
Gain an allianceWar?
with Great Britain
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or France
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End Game
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March 1861 (Lincoln’s First
Inaugural Address): The war was to
“preserve
the
Union.”
How did Lincoln
define
Write
Yourthe purpose
of the war in March 1861? For the
Final Challenge
Union,
how
did
the
war’s
purpose
Jan. 1863 (Emancipation
Wager
change
by
January
1,
1863?
Proclamation): It became war to end
slavery (i.e. a war for freedom). TIME’S
UP!
“Excellent Game!”
Mr. Clarke