Pre-Civil War Jeopardy

1. Pre-Civil War Jeopardy

2. Some Examples • This person teaches 7th grade Language Arts at Anthem School. • Who is Mrs. Sprague? • This has 13 stripes and 50 stars. • What is the American flag? • This football team will beat the Patriots at Foxboro on Sunday. • Who are the Denver Broncos?

3. The Rules • Each team needs one person to keep score • Each person will participate (so pay attention) • You may choose a teammate to help you answer. • If you choose a teammate they cannot answer another question • Be attentive and respectful when other people are giving answers • Use your daily questions and assignments to help you • This is for your enjoyment and benefit, please keep it meaningful and fun

4. Jeopardy Double Jeopardy

5. Politics $100 • This is how slave-owners viewed their slaves. • What is property?

6. Politics $200 • This candidate became president in 1860. • Who was Abraham Lincoln?

7. Politics $300 • Stephen A. Douglas & Abraham Lincoln debated this issue while running to become senator from Illinois in 1858. • What is the expansion of slavery?

8. Politics $400 • Stephen A. Douglas believed this was the best way to solve slavery. • What is popular sovereignty?

9. Politics $500 Daily Double!! You may bet up to $2000 You may not pass & will lose your bet if incorrect • Popular sovereignty & protecting slavery divided these two political parties during the presidential election of 1860. • What are Northern & Southern Democrats?

10. N & S$100 • This is feeling more loyal to your region of the country instead of the nation as a whole. • What is sectionalism?

11. N & S $200 • This region of the country was sectionalist before the Civil War. • What is the South?

12. N & S $300 • The North & South agreed on this before the Civil War. • What is nothing?

13. N & S $400 • This section of the country traded heavily with Europe. In order to survive, it depended on slaves, cotton, and low tariffs. • What is the South?

14. N & S $500 • The words immigrants, manufacturing, industry, and trade best describe this section’s economy. • What is the North?

15. Compromises$100 • Compromises were created to solve this issue before the Civil War. • What is slavery?

16. Compromises$200 • After the Missouri Compromise there were the same number of free states & slave states. These three words describe this effect. • What is balance of power?

17. Compromises$300 • This state became free because of the Compromise of 1850. • What is California?

18. Compromises$400 • This law helped slave-owners recapture their runaways & encouraged the South to agree to the Compromise of 1850. • What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

19. Compromises$500 • The Kansas-Nebraska Act used these two words to decide slavery in territories. • What is popular sovereignty?

20. Abolitionists & the Underground Railroad $100 • These people tried to help end slavery. They were sometimes conductors on the Underground Railroad. • Who are abolitionists?

21. Abolitionists & the Underground Railroad$200 • This was a series of safehouses slaves used to escape from the South to the North. • What is the Underground Railroad?

22. Abolitionists & the Underground Railroad$300 • This is why John Brown raided Harpers Ferry in 1859. • What is inspire slaves to fight for their freedom or start slave revolt/rebellion?

23. Abolitionists & the Underground Railroad$400 • Southerners claimed this popular Northern book, published in 1852, falsely criticized the South and slavery. • What was Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

24. Abolitionists & the Underground Railroad$500 • This Supreme Court case stated the Constitution protected slavery & implied African-Americans were not US citizens. • What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?

25. Double Jeopardy Final Jeopardy

26. Politics$800 • This candidate did not believe slavery should be abolished. However, he thought slavery should be limited to where it already existed and not be expanded. • Who was Abraham Lincoln?

27. Politics$1000 • After Abraham Lincoln became president in 1860 7 southern states seceded. They gave these two reasons for their action. • What are states’ rights & thinking Lincoln would abolish slavery?

28. N & S$800 • These divided the nation because trading for European goods cost more cotton than before. • What are protective tariffs?

29. N & S$1000 • Southerners viewed John Brown as a traitor after he raided Harpers Ferry in 1859. Abolitionists saw him as this. • What is a hero or martyr?

30. Compromises$800 Daily Double!! You may bet up to $4000 You may not pass & will lose your bet if incorrect • A mini-Civil War started in Kansas over slavery after this happened. So much blood was shed the territory came to be known as “Bleeding Kansas”. • What is 5,000 Missourians illegally voted?

31. Compromises$1000 Daily Double!! You may bet up to $4000 You may not pass & will lose your bet if incorrect • According to the Fugitive Slave Act, anyone helping slaves escape could be fined or jailed. These punishments created this moral dilemma for Northerners. • What is obey the law & support slavery or break the law & oppose slavery?

32. Abolitionists & the Underground Railroad$800 • These told slaves about the Underground Railroad. “Follow the Drinking Gourd” was code for slaves to follow the Big Dipper North to freedom. • What are spirituals?

33. Abolitionists & the Underground Railroad $1000 • A slave traveling on the Underground Railroad knew a safe house was nearby if he/she saw a white man grasping his ear as they passed each other, a hitching post shaped like a slave holding a lantern, a lantern in the window, or received one of these. • What are secret handshakes?