Unit 4 Jeopardy

1. Unit 4 Jeopardy Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

2. Choose a category. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

3. Presidents Slavery Texas & Mexico Grab Bag 1 Grab Bag 2 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

4. Name the President who initially believed that slavery would not be an issue in land gained from Mexico because he thought the dry climate would make slavery unprofitable.

5. Name the President who died shortly after a July 4th celebration, in all likelihood from cholera.

6. Name the President who was defeated in seeking a second term and who was also later unsuccessful as the Free-Soil Party candidate in 1848.

7. List these Presidents in correct chronological order. Franklin Pierce James Buchanan James K. Polk John Tyler Millard Fillmore William Henry Harrison Zachary Taylor

8. In a four-way race for President, this person received just under 40% of the popular vote but a majority of the electoral vote.

9. White overseers or black drivers constantly supervised groups of enslaved laborers to enforce work norms and achieve greater productivity.

10. On average, what percentage of white families owned slaves in 1860?

11. The transportation and economic system that brought black slaves to the Cotton South from the Upper South.

12. Slavery was referred to by southerners as:

13. Describe decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford? Who was the Chief Justice?

14. What does “GTT” stand for?

15. Why did President Van Buren refuse to consider the new Texas Republic’s request for annexation to the United States?

16. In 1844, Democrats built up support for the annexation of Texas by …

17. What was the disputed territory precipitating the war with Mexico?

18. What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? List its terms.

19. What was the Ostend Manifesto? Why was it significant?

20. Define popular sovereignty? What earlier law is in conflict with the concept of popular sovereignty?

21. . To whom was President Lincoln speaking when he said: “So you’re the little lady who started this big war”? What did he mean?

22. What was the Freeport Doctrine? Who “coined” it and why?

23. Name the person who made this statement and the context in which the statement was made. "I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American …I speak today for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause."

24. What was the Wilmot Proviso? Why was it important?

25. Who were the Conscience Whigs? Who were the Cotton Whigs?

26. What was the Crittenden Compromise?

27. What is the difference between the Topeka and Lecompton Constitutions? Why does it matter?

28. Name the person who made this statement and the context within which the statement was made. [the Union could be saved only by]"conceding to the South an equal right in the acquired Territory…by ceasing the agitation of the slave question, and…by adopting an amendment, which will restore to the South in substance the power she possessed of protecting herself, before theequilibrium between the sections was destroyed by the action of this government."

29. Final Jeopardy How confident are you?

30. Fill-in the blanks: Before the Civil War, the South grew __ percent of the world’s cotton, provided over __ of all U.S. export earnings, and furnished __ percent of the cotton consumed by the British textile industry.

31. James Polk

32. Zachary Taylor

33. Martin Van Buren

34. Abraham Lincoln

35. 9. William Henry Harrison 10. John Tyler 11. James K. Polk 12. Zachary Taylor 13. Millard Fillmore 14. Franklin Pierce 15. James Buchanan

36. Gang-labor System

37. ~25%

38. Domestic Slave Trade

39. Peculiar Institution

40. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney of Maryland He declared that Negroes, whether enslaved or free, could not be citizens of the United States, and that Scott therefore had no right to sue in federal court. Because the Fifth Amendment prohibited “takings” of property without due process of law, Taney ruled that Congress could not deny southern citizens the right to take their slave property into the territories and own it there. Consequently, the chief justice concluded, the provisions of the Northwest Ordinance and the Missouri Compromise that prohibited slavery had never been constitutional. Second, Taney declared that Congress could not give to territorial governments any powers that Congress itself did not possess. Because Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in a territory, neither did a territorial government.

41. Gone to Texas!

42. He didn’t want to provoke a war with Mexico.

43. Linking it to expansion to Oregon.

44. Mexico contended the Nueces River was Texas border while US said it was Rio Grande. Zachary Taylor sent US troops who were attacked by the Mexican Armyinto this region.

45. Peace treaty between US and Mexico ending the Mexican War. Mexico ceded to the United States Upper California and New Mexico. This was known as the Mexican Cession and included present-day Arizona and New Mexico and parts of Utah, Nevada, and Colorado. Mexico relinquished all claims to Texas and recognized the Rio Grande as the southern boundary with the United States.

46. Secretary of State Macy had European diplomats tell President Pierce that the US was justified in taking Cuba by force. Anti-expansionists accused Pierce of supporting a “slave power” conspiracy thus dashing hopes of expanding US slave holdings into the Caribbean.

47. The residents of a new territory should be the ones to decide if the territory will allow slavery or not. Missouri Compromise of 1820

48. Harriet Beecher Stowe as the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin which prompted strong anti-slavery feelings in the North (following the new Fugitive Slave Law.)

49. Stephen Douglas (while seeking re-election to the Senate)in his debate with Lincoln, who had asked him how he could accept the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision and still support “popular sovereignty”. Douglas responded that a territory's residents could exclude slavery simply by not adopting a law to protect it.

50. Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster Supporting the Compromise of 1850 in response to John Calhoun’s statement.