Pre-Civil War
Jeopardy
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 team lost to the Colts yesterday and is no
longer undefeated.
– Who are the Denver Broncos?
Politics
$100
• This is how slave-owners viewed their
slaves.
• What is property?
Politics
$200
• This candidate became president in
1860.
• Who was Abraham Lincoln?
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?
Politics
$400
• Stephen A. Douglas believed this
was the best way to solve slavery.
• What is popular sovereignty?
Politics
$500
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• Popular sovereignty & protecting
slavery divided these two political
parties during the presidential election
of 1860.
• What are Northern & Southern Democrats?
N & S
$100
• This is feeling more loyal to your
region of the country instead of the
nation as a whole.
• What is sectionalism?
N & S
$200
• This region of the country was
sectionalist before the Civil War.
• What is the South?
N & S
$300
• The North & South agreed on this
before the Civil War.
• What is nothing?
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?
N & S
$500
• The words immigrants,
manufacturing, industry, and trade
best describe this section’s economy.
• What is the North?
Compromises
$100
• Compromises were created to solve
this issue before the Civil War.
• What is slavery?
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?
Compromises
$300
• This state became free because of the Compromise of 1850.
• What is California?
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?
Compromises
$500
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act used these
two words to decide slavery in
territories.
• What is popular sovereignty?
Abolitionists & the Underground Railroad
$100
• These people tried to help end
slavery. They were sometimes
conductors on the Underground
Railroad.
• Who are abolitionists?
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?
Abolitionists & the Underground Railroad
$300
• Southerners claimed this popular Northern book, published in 1852, falsely criticized the South and slavery.
• What was Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Abolitionists & the Underground Railroad
$400
• This is why John Brown raided
Harpers Ferry in 1859.
• What is inspire slaves to fight for
their freedom or start slave
revolt/rebellion?
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?
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?
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?
N & S
$800
• These divided the nation because trading for European goods cost more cotton than before.
• What are protective tariffs?
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?
Compromises
$800
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• 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?
Compromises
$1000
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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?
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?
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?