Jeopardy
Slave Trade Comp. 1820
Constitution
Antebellum Slave Culture
America
& Resistance
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Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from H1
The name of the voyage from
Western Africa to the Americas
$100 Answer from H1
Middle Passage
$200 Question from H1
The two ways that slavers loaded
captured Africans into slave ships
$200 Answer from H1
Tight pack
Loose Pack
$300 Question from H1
Destination of most of the slaves
captured in Africa and brought
across the Atlantic
$300 Answer from H1
Brazil
$400 Question from H1
Destination city of most of the
enslaved Africans who disembarked
in the American colonies or the U.S.
$400 Answer from H1
Charleston, SC
$500 Question from H1
This allowed Portuguese sailors
to sail to West Africa and then return
to Portugal
$500 Answer from H1
Trade winds
$100 Question from H2
Another name for the Compromise
of 1820
$100 Answer from H2
Missouri Compromise
$200 Question from H2
What two territories became states
as a result of the Compromise?
$200 Answer from H2
Maine, Missouri
$300 Question from H2
Explain why the addition of new
states to the Union posed a problem
in Congress.
$300 Answer from H2
The addition of any new states
threatened to upset the balance of
power in Congress between free and
slave holding states.
$400 Question from H2
What is the line of latitude that
designates free states from slave
states as a result of the Compromise?
$400 Answer from H2
36º 30’
$500 Question from H2
The idea that God himself
blessed the growth of the American
nation
$500 Answer from H2
Manifest Destiny
$100 Question from H3
Slaves are counted by what portion
for the purposes of representation in
Congress and presidential electors?
$100 Answer from H3
Three-Fifths
$200 Question from H3
Congress is not able to regulate
the Trans-Atlantic slave trade until
what year according to the
Constitution?
$200 Answer from H3
1808
$300 Question from H3
Person held to Service or Labour in
one State, under the Laws thereof,
escaping into another, shall, in
Consequence of any Law or
Regulation therein, be discharged
from such Service or Labour, but
shall be delivered up on Claim of the
Party to whom such Service or Labour
may be due.
This section of the Constitution is known as what?
$300 Answer from H3
Fugitive Slave Clause
$400 Question from H3
Why do the framers of the
Constitution leave slavery in tact?
Who were they afraid of offending?
$400 Answer from H3
Southern slave holders
Southern states
$500 Question from H3
What do you think Luther Martin
means when he says that slavery
“is inconsistent with the principles
of the Revolution.”
$500 Answer from H3
If the principles of the revolution
were liberty and equality, slavery
goes against both of those principles
$100 Question from H4
Owner of an anti-slavery newspaper
in Massachusettes
$100 Answer from H4
William Lloyd Garrison
$200 Question from H4
Type of farming done in the north
that is used to feed only ones family
$200 Answer from H4
Subsistence farming
$300 Question from H4
List any of James H. Hammonds
justifications for slavery
$300 Answer from H4
Slavery is necessary for democracy
Slaves would leave if freed
Africans are best suited for this work
Slavery brought slaves religion and culture
Slavery already exists in Africa
$400 Question from H4
Name 3 of the 5 areas of focus
during the 2nd Great Awakening
$400 Answer from H4
Penal/Asylum reform
Education
Temperance
Abolition
Women’s Rights
$500 Question from H4
Explain how the legal status of
women in the 19th century guided
some women to be early
abolitionists.
$500 Answer from H4
Women saw many of their lack of
civil rights as a similar plight of
a lack of rights of enslaved Africans.
They reasoned that if they could fight
and win freedom for the slaves then
freedom for women would be next.
$100 Question from H5
This man saw signs from God
to rise up and kill white masters.
$100 Answer from H5
Nat Turner
$200 Question from H5
Name for the pattern of behavior
used by slaves to fool white masters
$200 Answer from H5
Sambo
$300 Question from H5
Name at least two types of
slave resistance
$300 Answer from H5
Running away
Refusal to work hard
Acts of sabbotage
$400 Question from H5
Explain the lesson that the tale
of Brer Rabbit taught slave
children.
$400 Answer from H5
Never be honest with the Master
$500 Question from H5
Why did poor southerners feel
that slavery was a better system
of labor than was employed in the
northern cities?
$500 Answer from H5
Even though poor white southerners
had no slaves they argued that wage
laborers were no different than slaves,
and at least poor white southerners
were free and worked for themselves
Final Jeopardy
Thurgood Marshall called the Constitution
“defective from the start.” Explain what he
meant by this.
Final Jeopardy Answer
The ratification of the Constitution with
slavery in tact meant that it could never
reach the true ideas of liberty & equality for
all of America’s citizens.