Jeopardy!The Balkans

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19th CenturyEurope

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Final Jeopardy

This was the first Balkan nation to win independence from the Ottoman Empire.

What is Greece?

This was the diplomatic conference thatformalized the independence of Serbia andRomania.

What was the Congress of Berlin?

This nation, which received its independence after the First Balkan War, was the first majority-Muslim nation in the Balkans.

What is Albania?

Serbia, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire all sought to control this ethnically divided province.

What is Bosnia?

This principality, which was on the winning side in both Balkan wars, was the smallest nation in the early 20th century Balkans.

What is Montenegro?

This was the branch of government whose powers were delineated by Article I of the Constitution.

What is Article I?

These were the three rights with which, according to the Declaration of Independence, all Americans were endowed.

What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

DAILY DOUBLE

This was the first state to ratify the Constitution.

What is Delaware?

This was the theory under which the British claimed that the colonists were represented in Parliament.

What was virtual representation?

These were the two key phrases in what came to be known as the “elastic clause” of Article I of the Constitution.

What are “general welfare” and “necessary and proper”?

This was the province over which Russia and Japan fought in the Russo-Japanese War.

What is Manchuria?

These were the two areas into which Britain tried—and failed—to expand from India in the mid-19th century.

What are Afghanistan and Tibet?

This was the country that colonized Vietnam.

What is France?

This was where British and French forces collided in their attempts to colonize Africa.

What is Fashoda?

This was the river, shown in the map to follow, that defined the outer limits of the British claims in the Venezuela boundary dispute.

What is the Orinoco River?

This Austrian leader was known for his support of realism in foreign policy.

Who was Metternich?

In this year, revolutions occurred in Austria, Hungary, France, and Germany.

What is 1848?

The only section of Russia in which Jews were legally allowed to live.

What was the pale?

This country’s independence was accompanied by an international guarantee of its neutrality.

What was Belgium?

The name given to the tariff that the British government placed on agricultural goods in the early part of the 19th century.

What were the Corn Laws?

The British and French were allied with the Turks in this 19th century war.

What was the Crimean War?

This was the first country that fought a war against Prussia during the wars associated with Germany’s mid-19th century unification.

What was Denmark?

DAILY DOUBLE

The treaty between Britain and Spain that established the asiento.

What is the Treaty of Utrecht?

During the US Civil War, the name given to new universities, founded thanks to legislation passed by the federal government.

What are land-grant universities?

After the Russo-Turkish War (1877-78), this was one of the two provinces returned to the Ottoman Empire, to prevent the creation of “Big Bulgaria.”

What are either Eastern Rumelia or Macedonia?

Final Jeopardy

Historical Geography

Final Jeopardy

Final Jeopardy Answer

Who is Tolstoy?(The book is Kingdom of God)