Nineteenth Century Jeopardy
Mr. Clarke
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Early 1800sEarly 1800s Civil WarCivil War ReconstructionReconstruction WestWest Grab BagGrab Bag
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What did Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton have in
common?100Both were women’s rights activists who planned the Seneca Falls
Convention in 1848
Early 1800s for 100
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Name two pieces of advice that George Washington gave in his
farewell address?200U.S. should avoid entangling
alliances with European countries.
Political parties were ruinous to the nation.
Early 1800s for 200
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What did Dorothea Dix and Horace Mann have in common?300
Both were early 1800s century reformers.
Dix worked on prison and asylum reform.
Mann encouraged the states to provide free public education.
Early 1800sfor 300
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List two factors that led to the U.S. War with Mexico.400
1. Manifest Destiny: U.S. though it had a God-given right to expand to Pacific
2. Border dispute with Mexico
Early 1800s for 400
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List two parts of Alexander Hamilton’s economic plans.500
1. Create a national bank
2. Raise tariffs to promote manufacturing
3. Have the Federal government take on the states’ Revolutionary War debts
Early 1800sfor 500
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What did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 do?100
Maine admitted as a free state.
Missouri admitted as a slave state.
Slavery prohibited in territories north of 36°30’ line.
Civil War for 100
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Compare the societies and economies of the northern and southern sections of the nation.200
North
Beginning to industrialize.
Free wage labor.
South
Plantation system
Slave labor
Cotton = #1 Export
Civil War for 200
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Name 3 parts of the Compromise of 1850.300
1. CA admitted as free state
2. Popular sovereignty to decide slavery in NM and UT
3. Slave trade (but not slavery) abolished in Washington, D.C.
4. Fugitive Slave Act: North must capture & return runaway slaves
Civil War for 300
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How did the Kansas-Nebraska act only increase tensions over
slavery?400The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed
both states to decide on slavery through popular sovereignty.
Abolitionists mad because it undoes the MO Compromise.
Bleeding KS: Violence between abolitionists and slave holders
Civil War for 400
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What event pushed the first southern states to secede? Why?500
The Election of 1860
Lincoln, an abolitionist, was elected in a four-way election without a
single electoral vote from a southern state.
Civil War for 500
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What did southerners call a northerners who moved south in
order to participate in Reconstruction?100A Carpetbagger
Reconstruction for 100
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Describe one similarity between Lincoln and Johnson’s Reconstruction plans?200
Both wanted to go easy on the South in order to heal the nation.
Both believed the South had not seceded (and hence did not have to be re-admitted by Congress)
Liberally issued pardons to southerners
Reconstruction for 200
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How did the Radical Republican plan for Reconstruction differ
from Johnson’s plan? (Give two examples)300
Radical Republicans believed states had left Union and needed to be re-admitted by Congress
Congress wanted to punish confederacy Congress required states to ratify 14th and 15th
Amendments Congress divided South into military districts Congress did not allow former Confederates to
vote or hold office Congress created Freedmen’s Bureau Congress required a 50% loyalty oath in South
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Why was President Andrew Johnson impeached?400
IMMEDIATE REASONJohnson violated tenure of office act by
firing his Sec. of War.UDERLYING REASONS
Radical Republicans disliked Johnson because he was too easy on the SouthCongress wanted to take control of
Reconstruction from the President
Reconstruction for 400
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Why did Reconstruction end?500Reconstruction ended with the election of 1876. Democratic candidate Tilden won the
popular vote, but Republican Hayes disputed the electoral vote. The compromise did the following:
Compromise of 1877-Democrats agreed to allow Hayes to be
President-Republicans agreed to end military
Reconstruction in the South
Reconstruction for 500
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How did the Federal government encourage the construction of the
first transcontinental railroad?100They provided two competing companies with subsidies and free land for every mile of track
they could build.
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What was the forced removal of the Cherokee Indians called?200The Trail of Tears
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What was the main purpose of the Dawes Act?300
To force Native Americans to assimilate by breaking up tribal
holdings and giving them individual land titles instead.
West for 300
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What law offered free land on the Great Plains for settlers who
would occupy it for 5 years and improve it?400The Homestead Act
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What factors encouraged the passage of the Chinese Exclusion
Act?500Nativist (anti-immigrant feelings) that stemmed from the perception
that Chinese immigrants were undercutting white workers’ wages and causing higher
unemployment.
West for 500
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Which President first used the spoils system to reward his
supporters with jobs in the federal government?100Andrew Jackson
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In what case did the Supreme Court rule that a loose construction of
the Constitution based on the elastic clause justified the
creation of the first national bank?200McCulloch v. Maryland
Grab Bag for 200
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Name one strength of both the North and the South at the start of
the Civil War.300North
Larger population
More industrialized
More railroads
Better economy
South
Better Generals
Possibility of an Alliance w/ GB
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How did Lincoln’s decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
change the purpose of the war in the eyes of many Northerners.400
At first Lincoln claimed the Civil War was a war for the
preservation of the Union.
After the Emancipation Proclamation, many thought it
was a war to end slavery.
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What two battles are widely considered to be the turning
points of the Civil War?500Gettysburg
AND
Vicksburg
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Write Your
Final Challenge
Wager
What factors were most responsible for causing the Civil War? (Name
at least 3)
Final ChallengeEnd Game
TIME’SUP!
TIME’SUP!
Sectionalism
States’ Rights vs. Strong Federal Power
Slavery
Inability to Compromise Further
“Excellent Game!”
Mr. Clarke