Period V-pub style trivia Questions will be given and reviewed in groups of 10 Highest score wins Four Categories Border Bedlam, Pick your President/Party, Laws and Effect

Border Bedlam

Q.1 The Mexican American war was instigated in part to achieve the Texan border at what river?

Q.2 This land was purchased in order to build a Southern Continental Railroad…it never actually gets used though

Q.3 This treaty ended the Mexican American was and granted the US land in California, New Mexico, as well as parts of Colorado and Utah.

Q.4 The borders of this country were opened for trade by the US Navy (lead by Commodore Mathew Perry)

Q5 The “borders” were opened between the US and what two countries who contributed the most to US immigration during this time?

Q 6 True or False migration to Oregon preceded its annexation as a state

Q7 This 3rd Party ran as a coalition of Democratic and Whig forces who opposed the spread of slavery into territory gained from Mexico

Q8 What court cased called into question the usefulness of boundaries in determining the status of free vs. enslaved.

Q9 Bedlam is an apt word to describe the situation in Kansas in the 1850’s as disputed elections led to two rival governments located in what cities.

Q10 Name 3 states that seceded prior to Lincolns call for troops

A.1 The Rio Grande

A.2 The Gadsden Purchase

A3 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

A4 Japan

A 5 Ireland and Germany

A 6 True- Friendly relationships with Britain who also claimed the land allowed for peaceful settlement prior to resolving the territorial issues

A7 Free Soil Party

A8 Dred Scott vs. Sanford

A9 Lecompton and Topeka

A10

Pick your President/Party

Q.1 1844-1848 Responsible for Annexing Oregon Annexing Texas The Mexican American War Annexing the entire Southwest

Q. 2 1848 – 1850 Mexican American War Hero known as “Old Rough and Ready” sought to block Henry Clay’s Compromise for political reasons, however he failed due to his own death. Coincidentally will be the last Whig president elected.

Q 3 As nativist sentiment became more pronounced in the 1840s and 50s the “_________________” party enjoyed considerable success in both the North and the South

Q4 This party formed in 1854 in strong opposition to the Kansas- Nebraska act, in 1856 they ran their first presidential candidate _____________

Q5 1852-1856 1856-1860 Give the name/party of both presidents that preceded the Civil War

Q6 This event occurring in multiple iterations in 1858 elevated the national discourse on popular sovereignty and Dred Scott. As well as making one politician a national rather than local figure.

Q7 During the Civil War pro-peace Northern Democrats were known by what pejorative name?

Q8 1865-1869 Initially an opponent of the planter elite, this president will later prove to be an ally during his phase of Reconstruction

Q9 Corruption plagued both Northern Government and Southern Reconstruction governments and under the 1870s administration it became so prevalent it began to be known by what presidential sounding moniker 1870-1877

Q10 This political offshoot, overtook National Politics in 1877 by promoting free trade, the gold standard, and ending reconstruction politics.

A.1 James K Polk

A. 2 Zachary Taylor

A4 Know Nothing Party

A4 The Republican Party, John C Fremont

A4 Franklin Pierce – Dem James Buchanan – Dem

A. 6 Lincoln-Douglas debates

A7 Copperheads

A8 Andrew Johnson

A9 “Grantism”

A10 Liberal Republicans

Laws and Effect

Q1 The most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850, and one of the few provisions that specifically benefited the South

Q2 A popular “What if” in history concerns the ____________ Compromise; which would have extended the Missouri Compromise to the Pacific and offered a constitutional amendment to protect slavery in the South.

Q3 This act established that paper money printed by the union during the Civil War would be accepted at any publicly owned institution

Q4 The Laws that built up to the Emancipation Proclamation

Q5 Name a law to be veto’d by Andrew Johnson, and that was later override

Q6 Laws put in place under Presidential Reconstruction to try and subjugate Freedmen

Q7 The Law that Andrew Johnson violated that resulted in his impeachment

Q8 Initially too radical for the majority of the Republican Party this amendment guaranteed protection from voting discrimination on the basis of race

Q9 U.S Grant bowed to pressure from the Liberal Republican in passing this bill that re-restored rights to former confederates

Q10 This court case weakened the enforcement acts by saying that military courts should not be used to try civilians if there are civilian courts open

A1 Fugitive Slave Act

A2 Crittenden Compromise

A3 Legal Tender Act

A4 Confiscation Acts

A5 Supplementary Freedmen’s Bureau Civil Rights Act of 1866 Reconstruction Act of 1867

A6 Black Codes

A7 Tenure of Office Act

A8 15th Amendment

A9 The Amnesty Acts

A10 Ex parte Milligan