JEOPARDY!
Slavery
Odds
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Civil War Hodgepodge
Battles
People
Vocabulary Reconstruction
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FINAL JEOPARDY
Name two men man who
led slave revolts.
100
Nat Turner
and
John Brown
Slavery
Who wrote a book called
Uncle Tom’s Cabin that
contradicted Christian
teachings, destroyed black
family structures, and was
morally destructive to slave
owners?
200
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Slavery
BONUS
Bonus:
What law applied the
idea of popular
sovereignty?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Slavery
Where was the
Confederate capital
located?
300
Richmond, Virginia
Slavery
What term describes the
philosophy that the
people in each new state
were to choose on the
issue of slavery?
400
Popular sovereignty
Slavery
What Supreme Court
ruling states that a slave
was a piece of property
that the southern states
strongly agreed with?
500
Dred Scott Decision
Slavery
What political party was
formed in 1854 and did
not support slavery?
100
Republican
Odds and Ends
What Southern belief was
illustrated by the phrase
“King Cotton”?
200
Cotton was the most
important Southern crop.
Odds and Ends
What is the formal
withdrawal of a state
from the Union?
300
Secession
Odds and Ends
Who helped more than
300 slaves escape through
the Underground
Railroad?
400
Harriet Tubman
Odds and Ends
Who was the initial (first)
general of northern
forces?
500
George McLellan
Odds and Ends
BONUS
BONUS:
What federal agency was
created during
Reconstruction to provide
assistance to former slaves
and needy whites?
Freedman's Bureau
Odds and Ends
What was the bloodiest
DAY of the war?
100
Antietam
Civil War
What state was created
during the Civil War from
territory that broke away
from a Confederate state?
200
West Virginia
Civil War
What were three
Confederate advantages
when the war started?
300
Better generals,
defending their homes,
fighting for a more
personal cause
Civil War
What was the first major
battle of the Civil War?
400
Bull Run.
Civil War
What made the Civil War
the first truly modern
war?
500
Iron clad ships, new
weapons (rifles, for
example), bullets,
photography
Odds and Ends
BONUS
BONUS:
How did the Union finance
the war?
INDUSTRY!
Also will accept: Income
tax, bonds, printed
“greenbacks”
Civil War
What was the event (that
occurred on April 15,
1865) that allowed
Radical Republicans to
heavily influence the
process of
Reconstruction?
100
The assassination of
President Abraham
Lincoln
Hodgepodge
Southern states
threatened to leave the
union if __________ was
elected president.
200
Abraham Lincoln
Hodgepodge
Where did Confederate
General Robert E. Lee
surrender to Grant?
300
Appomattox Courthouse
Hodgepodge
BONUS
Bonus:
Who became president
as a result of the
Compromise of 1877?
Rutherford B. Hayes
Hodgepodge
What made slavery in the
“rebelling” states illegal and
made the destruction of
slavery a war aim for the
Union?
400
The Emancipation
Proclamation
Hodgepodge
___________ was a former
slave, became a great orator and
writer, published The Northern
Star newspaper, and urged
Lincoln to recruit former slaves
to fight in the Union Army.
500
Fredrick Douglass
Hodgepodge
What battle proved that
the Civil War was not
going to be a short war?
100
st
1
Bull Run
st
(aka 1 Manassas)
Battles
What battle was the
turning point of the war.
(It proved that the South
could be defeated.)
200
Gettysburg
Battles
What political event
occurred as a result of
the Battle of Antietam?
300
Emancipation
Proclamation
Battles
What event began the
Civil War?
400
The Southerners fired on
Fort Sumter
Battles
What battle gave the
North complete control
of the Mississippi River?
500
Vicksburg
Battles
Who gave the Gettysburg
Address?
100
Abraham Lincoln
People
Who was the Union
general who marched
through the South and
burned Atlanta?
200
William T. Sherman
People
Who was the president of
the Confederacy during
the Civil War?
300
Jefferson Davis
People
Who was the commander
of Union forces at the
end of the Civil War and
was the North’s most
successful general?
400
Ulysses S. Grant
People
Who was the abolitionist
who contributed to
violence in Kansas and
planned a raid on
Harper’s Ferry, VA?
500
John Brown
People
BONUS
Bonus:
How many military districts
were established in the
South during
Reconstruction?
FIVE
People
What term describes the
period of time after the
Civil War during which
the South was punished
by the North after the
war?
100
Reconstruction
Vocabulary
What name was given to
former slaves who paid
rent to white landowners?
200
Tenant Farmers
Vocabulary
What was the nickname
given to northerners who
came south to get rich?
300
Carpetbaggers
Cold War
BONUS
Bonus:
Who proposed the idea of
allowing states to use popular
sovereignty to choose
between freedom and slave
state?
Stephen Douglas
Vocabulary
What was the term for the
Civil War that described
how each side’s ENTIRE
ECONOMY focused on
supporting and fighting
the war?
400
Total War
Vocabulary
What nickname was given
to Southerners who
supported the Republican
government?
500
Scalawags
Vocabulary
What constitutional
amendment outlawed
slavery on a permanent
basis?
100
The Thirteenth
Amendment
Reconstruction
What amendment
prohibited states from
denying equal rights under
the law to any American?
200
The Fourteenth
Amendment
Reconstruction
What was a secret society
(and terrorist group)
formed to prevent
African-Americans from
voting?
300
Ku Klux Klan
Reconstruction
Which amendment
guaranteed voting rights
regardless of “race, color,
or previous condition of
servitude”?
400
Fifteenth Amendment
Reconstruction
In return for the support of
Southern Democrats, the
Republicans agreed to end the
military occupation of the South
in order to give their candidate
the office of president. What is
this deal known as?
500
Compromise of 1877
Reconstruction
BONUS
Bonus:
The completion of the _______
soon after the War ended
intensified the westward
movement of settlers into the
states between the Mississippi
River and the Pacific Ocean.
The Transcontinental
Railroad
Reconstruction
FINAL JEOPARDY:
What was the basis for the
impeachment charges
against President Andrew
Johnson?
answer
He violated the
Tenure of Office
Act
The End