American History Jeopardy

1. American History Jeopardy People & Identity Politics & Power Wars Culture & Society Geography & Environment $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 Final Jeopardy

2. This contributed to the spread of civilization from present day northward into present day America and supported economic development, settlement and advanced Irrigation. Extra $100 Name the Arizona tribe that used this system. Maize- used by various societies and permanent settlements. Used irrigation methods! Extra: Hohokam and later Pueblos 1 - $100

3. 1 - $200 • Explain the contrast in regional development in Chesapeake and New England. • Extra $100 Name the economic base for the 3 regions. • Chesapeake is the Virginia territory where Jamestown- colonized for monetary reasons- based on economy of tobacco. • New England was Massachusetts and the Puritans and Pilgrims landed here for Religious freedom. • $Extra- South: plantations (tobacco) • Middle: Wheat and industry • New England: Industry (too rocky)

4. 1 - $300 • Womans Suffrage movement • Name one of the 2 women who organized the Seneca Falls meeting and helped write The Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances • Was the first woman to hold a house seat • Was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court • The two suffragist movement groups that merged together in 1890 • Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Jeanette Rankin • Sandra Day O'Conner • NWSA and the AWSA merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).

5. 1 - $400 • Explain the following founding fathers: • 1. George Washington “Farewell Address” • 2. Hamilton vs Jefferson on economy and Bank • 3. James Madison and the view on Federal powers • 4. James Monroe and foreign policy extra $100 for WHO established. 1- beware of political parties (cabinet fed & dem- rep always fighting & permanent alliances. 2 - Hamilton wanted Industry, infrastructure and National Bank. Jefferson wanted Agriculture and state banks. 3 – Strong Federal Government and wrote the federalist papers. 4- Monroe Doctorine England keep out of Western Hemisphere. Written by Sec of State John Quincy Adams.

6. 1 - $500 • Name the 5 rebellions that impacted American History (hints bellow) • Stopped indentured servitude and escalated slave importation. • Lead to slave codes being established because runaway slaves tried to flee to Georgia. • The Natives united in the Ohio Valley territory which led to the Proclamation of 1863 by the British. • Lead by Samuel Adams and participated in the Stamp Act protests, burned loyalist homes and did the Boston Tea Party. • Was led by a disgruntled revolutionary soldier who fought against state taxes in Mass. The federal Government was unable to squash it proving their weakness. 1-Bacons rebellion 3 – Pontiacs rebellion 2- Stono Rebellion 4 – Sons of Liberty 5 – Shays reb.

7. 2 - $100 • The first establishment of the colonies showing participating town meetings which in turn elected members to their colonial legislation. Due to British distance and Salutary Neglect. • House of Burgess established in Jamestown 1619 that had legislators that represented 11 plantations (settlements)

8. 2 - $200 • The Spanish System established in the New World in hopes of saving the “Savages” and bringing Christianity to them. • $100 extra for the 2 people for and against this system • Encomienda system • In 1550 This system on the American Indians • was debated in a Spanish Court. • Bartalome de Las Casas debated that the system was inhuman while Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda argued it was necessary- indians were savages.

9. 2 - $300 • Four court cases that impacted America. • Established Judicial Review • Established Separate IS Equal • Established Separate is NOT Equal • Legalized Right for abortion • Extra $100 the court case that said states could not break a Federal treaty with the Native Americans. • Marbury Vs. Madison • Plessy Vs Ferguson • Brown Vs Board of Education • Roe vs. Wade • $100 Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia State

10. 2 - $400 • Acts passed that would were and are considered a constitutional debate. State what acts and why. • John Adams $100 extra court Case Questions during WWI • Woodrow Wilson • George Bush II • Adams- Alien and Sedition Acts. In response to the French and British War. Dem-Rep criticized the government and Federalist wanted it stopped. • Wilson- Espionage and Sedition Acts. WWI and the Draft. • Bush - Patriot Act. Intelligence gathered in secret to combat terrorist activity. $100 Schenck vs. US

11. 2 - $500 • Reconstruction Era • The civil War amendments • The nicknames given to those who rebuilt South • The Radical Republican Plan • The end of Reconstruction • 13th-abolished slavery, 14th- citizenship all men, 15th all men could vote despite race. • Carpetbaggers (northern teachers, lawyers) and Scalawags (southerners helping republicans). • Split South into 5 military districts, no old Southern Confed participate in gov, take an oath to Union • 1877 Compromise-Rutherford B. Hayes a republican promised the new Democratic Now pariticpating Congress to pull troops out of South if he was elected.

12. 3 - $100 • The Vietnam war to the Iraq War • Compare the policy of the presidents-explain. • Nixon is to Vietnam as Obama is to Iraq • Explain why the same. • Extra $100 How are these different in the outcome? • Nixon pulled troops out of Vietnam war allowing for Vietanmization. The South Vietnamese to take over. Obama promised to pull troops out of Iraq and end the war turning over the government to the newly established Iraq govern. • $100- Different because Siagon fell to North Vietcong while Iraq troops still there even though most have pulled out.

13. 3 - $200 • Three reasons that American went to war with Spain 1898 “Splendid Little War.” • Extra $100- The amendment that gave Cuba freedom and the one that allowed US to stay until Cuba established self. (US stayed until 1933) • Yellow Journalism – William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer • USS Maine exploding in Cuba went it was sent to check on Americans and property • Time of World Imperialism and Manifest Destiny ideals • De Lome Letter and The Cuban Concentration Camps by the Spanish. • Extra $100 Teller Amendment and Platt Amendment

14. 3 - $300 • Name the turning point battle of the following wars. • -Revolutionary War • -Civil War • Extra $100 Wartime destruction of the South infrastructure and resources • Battle of Saratoga- America defeated the British and the French joined in to aid the Americans. • Battle of Antietam. The Confeds moved into the North. Gen McClellan stopped them. Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation. • Extra $100 Shermans March to the Sea

15. 3 - $400 • Name 3 presidents and events during the Cold War where is détente was difficult and presidents took a stand against Communism. • Truman- Truman Doctrine and NATO established a policy that was anticommunist-Anti Soviet. • JFK- Cuban Missile Crisis. USSR putting nukes in Cuba. JFK blockades it and declares will shoot down any ship that passes it. • Reagan- Arms Race. Massive build up of military to destroy Communism. National Debt rises.

16. 3 - $500 • WWII • America practices Isolationism, but will aid Gr. Britain by… (3 things) • American will meet with Churchill prior to involvement on a ship and discuss… • When America joined the war, explain the 2 fronts. • American will use the atomic Weapon. Why? • Neutrality Acts: Cash n Carry, Lend Lease, Destroyer Deal • Atlantic Charter: Postwar government, punishment reparations. • 1st the Europe Front. Through Africa and Italy then push in through France. Russia comes from other side. 2nd Pacific Island Hopping.

17. 4 - $100 • This was known as the “New South” after the Civil War and promoted by southern leaders to handle the labor problem. • EXTRA $100 The establishment that was vetoed by President Johnson that gave every freedman 40 acres and a mule. (land being x-confederate land) • Agriculture based on sharecropping and tenant farmers. Freedmen (X slaves) and poor white farmers continued to be the primary labor/economics of the South. • EXTRA: Freedman's Burea. He gave the land back to the Confederates- angering the northern republicans. Impeached him shortly after. Found NOT guilty.

18. 4 - $200 • The Counter Culture: • Who • Belief • Why • Hippy of the 1960s and 70s • The baby boom children • Rebelled against Nuclear Family • The Vietnam War and draft

19. 4 - $300 • Some business leaders of the industrial age argued that the wealthy had a moral obligation to help the less fortunate and improve society. They made philanthropic contributions that enhanced educational and urban environments. • Some Business leaders of the industrial age argued that the success was justified to those who had achieved it and the less fort ante were due to their own lack of ability to achieve social economic status. • EXTRA $100 Horizontal and Vertical Monopolies. • 3rd Great Awakening- Gospel of Wealth. Andrew Carnegie contributed all of his wealth when he died to help improve society. • Social Darwinism. Allowed for the survival of the fittest Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt excelled. • EXTRA: Horizontal - Rockefeller and Vertical- Carnegie

20. 4 - $400 • These people left the South due to Jim Crow Laws, segregation, KKK violence and better opportunities. • Who, when and where • The Great Migration. Happened with African Americans moved from South to urban Northern Cities for jobs. These movements led to African American sections of the cities. Harlem one such place.

21. 4 - $500 • Name the domestic policy for each of the following. (explain each) • Theodore Roosevelt • Calvin Coolidge • Franklin Roosevelt • Lyndon B. Johnson • Ronald Reagan • TR- Square Deal Conservation, Trustbusting, Consumer Protection (FDA), Collective Bargaining. • Coolidge- 1920s The Business of American is Business. • FDR- NEW Deal – Relief and recovery • LBJ- The Great Society • Reagan- Reaganomics – to try to stimulate the economy from Carters Stagflation.

22. 5 - $100 • The Louisiana Territory and Mexican American Land Cession lead to slave tensions. Name the 2 Acts that temporally fixed the problems. • Louisiana Territory purchased by Jefferson – Missouri Compromise of 1820 • Mexican Am War Land Cessions during Polk- • Missouri Compromise of 1850 • Who did both acts???

23. 5 - $200 • Explain the Statement Eisenhower to the American Infrastructure is Henry Clay to the American Infrastructure. • EXTRA $100 Henry Clay established what political Party and why? • Eisenhower did the interstate system in the 1950s and Henry Clay promoted his American System that improved the infrastructure during the Era of Good feelings and Market Revolution early 1800s • EXTRA: Clay est. the WHIG party to combat Andrew Jacksons Democratic Party. Clay wanted High Tariffs, National Bank and money towards American Infrastructure. Jackson opposed all. Monster Bank, wanted to pay off National Debt which meant no money for infrastructure. He did however raise tariffs (Tariff of Abomination)

24. 5 - $300 • During Decolonization Era • America let go of what colony from Imperialist Era? • When had the idea first been introduced by the President? • EXTRA $100 Announced the Western frontier was closed • Philippines Independence July 4th, 1946 • The Jones Act by Woodrow Wilson under the Moral Diplomacy promised to give Philippines their freedom in the future. • EXTRA Fredrick Jackson Turner- director of Census in 1890 announced 2 people sq mile.

25. 5 - $400 • Name the Acts • 1. Broke up the Ohio Valley into grid system. Determined that no slavery was allowed in the territory and how many people had to live their before it became a state. • 2. 160 Acres given to someone willing to live and farm the land 5 years. • 3. Broke up the Oklahoma reservation and tried to get Natives to assimilate by issuing land and citizenship. • Northwest Land Ordinance Act (under the Articles of Confederation) • Homestead Act During the Western Movement • Dawes Act- During the Western Movement

26. 5 - $500 • Name and 4 American President Scandals- causing general public outrage, in American History Pres. Jefferson's VP-Aaron Burr killed Alex Hamilton (went on the run- caught and tried by Marshal found not guilty.) Pres. John Quincy Adams and the Corrupt Bargain. Andrew Jackson won, but not by a majority, Henry Clay made a deal with JQ and became Sec of State when Senate elected JQ and not Jackson. Andrew Jacksons: Spoils System & Indian Removal Act (Executive order) that removed peaceful tribes to reservation. Pres. VanBuren later carried out the order Trail of Tears 800 mile walk. Pres. Rutherford Hayes and the 1877 Reconstruction ends Compromise- pulled troops out if the oppositve political party would back him. (Dem opposed him.) Pres. Taft and Theodore Roosevelt. Taft refused to step down after the Republican Nomination and TR established the Bull Moose Party. Wilson won as a result. Pres. Hoover- Hoovervilles during the Great Depression Nixon- Watergate Reagan- Iran-Contra Affair Clinton- Impeachment

27. Final Jeopardy • Name the Canal that enabled the New England region to access the Ohio Valley territory. This led to town growth, industrial boom and migration. • The Erie Canal