Caught in
the Act
Starts With
Speeches
“J”
Congress
Scandal!
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Question 1 - 10
• Law designed to prevent the
creation of monopolies, but
was poorly enforced until
Theodore Roosevelt became
president
Answer 1 – 10
•Sherman
Antitrust Act
Question 1 - 20
• 1807
• Passed in response to both
British and French threats
against US shipping
• Cut off ALL trade between US
and Europe
Answer 1 – 20
•The Embargo Act
Question 1 - 30
• Civil War era law which
allowed the US Treasury to
begin issuing paper money
known as “greenbacks”
Answer 1 – 30
•Legal Tender Act
Question 1 - 40
• 1862 law which gave away millions
of acres of federal land
• Settlers could claim 160 acres each
for a $10 filing fee and a five year
commitment to stay on the land and
make improvements to it
Answer 1 – 40
•Homestead Act
Question 1 - 50
•1789: established
the federal court
system, including
the Supreme Court
Answer 1 – 50
•Judiciary Act
Question 2 - 10
• Famous senator from South
Carolina who believed in the
principle of Nullification and
who argued that slavery was a
“positive good.”
Answer 2 – 10
•John Calhoun
Question 2 - 20
•Savage 1856 beating on
the floor of the Senate
over the issue of the
expansion of slavery
into new territories
Answer 2 – 20
•Sumner-Brooks
Incident
Question 2 - 30
• Group of senators and
congressmen who sought to
punish the South during
Reconstruction by creating
extremely high standards for
readmission to the Union
Answer 2 – 30
•Radical
Republicans
Question 2 - 40
• Law passed by Congress to
effect Civil Service reform
and put an end to the
partisan “spoils system”
Answer 2 – 40
•Pendleton Act
Question 2 - 50
• Congressional back-room deal
that denied the presidency to
Andrew Jackson in favor of John
Quincy Adams in the 1824
election; in return, Henry Clay
became Secretary of State
Answer 2 – 50
•The Corrupt Bargain
Question 3 - 10
• Political machine boss who ran
New York City’s Tammany Hall,
but was eventually sent to prison
on corruption charges thanks, in
part, to the political cartoons of
Thomas Nast
Answer 3 – 10
•William “Boss”
Tweed
Question 3 - 20
• The practice, started by
Andrew Jackson, of newly
elected presidents dismissing
the federal bureaucracy and
replacing them with friends
and political allies
Answer 3 – 20
•The Spoils System
Question 3 - 30
• US diplomats sent by President John
Adams to negotiate with France
were asked for bribes and promises
of a large loan by French officials,
angering many Americans, who
began to call for war with France
Answer 3 – 30
•XYZ Affair
Question 3 - 40
• Andrew Jackson killed the
Bank of the US by
withdrawing all of the federal
government’s funds and
placing them in these instead
Answer 3 – 40
•Pet banks
Question 3 - 50
•Faced impeachment
for violation of the
Tenure in Office Act
Answer 3 – 50
•Andrew Johnson
Question 4 - 10
• Shockingly short speech given by
Abraham Lincoln to consecrate a
military cemetery in Pennsylvania
• Reaffirmed Lincoln’s commitment to
restoring the Union as the primary
goal of the Civil War
Answer 4 – 10
•The Gettysburg
Address
Question 4 - 20
• US should avoid foreign wars
and alliances.
• Good government is based on
religion and morality.
• Political parties are dangerous to
national unity
Answer 4 – 20
•Washington’s
Farewell Address
Question 4 - 30
• Campaign speech,
delivered by William
Jennings Bryan, which
called for a bimetallist
monetary policy for the US
Answer 4 – 30
•The Cross of Gold
Speech
Question 4 - 40
• Speech, delivered by
Sojourner Truth, that
promoted both abolition
and women’s rights
Answer 4 – 40
•Ain’t I A Woman?
Question 4 - 50
• Gave the longest Inaugural
Address in US history, but the
cold he caught while
delivering it caused him to
also have the shortest
presidency in US history
Answer 4 – 50
•William Henry
Harrison
Question 5 - 10
• 8th President of the United States
• Came to fame as a war hero and
Indian fighter
• His political enemies believed
him too powerful and labeled
him a “king”
Answer 5 – 10
•Andrew Jackson
Question 5 - 20
• Considered one of the South’s
most capable generals before
he was accidentally shot by
his won men and died of
pneumonia while recovering
from his injuries
Answer 5 – 20
•Stonewall
Jackson
Question 5 - 30
• 3rd President of the United States
• Author of the Declaration of
Independence
• Leader of the DemocraticRepublican Party
Answer 5 – 30
•Thomas
Jefferson
Question 5 - 40
•President of the
Confederate
States of America
Answer 5 – 40
•Jefferson Davis
Question 5 - 50
• Appointed First Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court by President
George Washington
• Negotiated a poorly received
treaty with England
Answer 5 – 50
•John Jay