Jeopardy Heading1Heading2Heading3Heading4 Heading5 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from H1 The importance of the Seneca Falls Convention is that it
$100 Answer from H1 began the modern women’s rights movement
$200 Question from H1 Brook Farm and New Harmony are examples of what type of community?
$200 Answer from H1 Utopian
$300 Question from H1 Charles Goodyear’s process of vulcanizing rubber and Elias Howe’s sewing machine both demonstrate
$300 Answer from H1 the power of inventions to revolutionize industries
$400 Question from H1 Did the Temperance Movement Believe alcoholism is a disease?
$400 Answer from H1 No
$500 Question from H1 The opening of Oberlin College, Troy Female Seminary and the Perkins School for the Blind in the 1830s and 1840s demonstrated
$500 Answer from H1 a new American movement for higher education for new groups
$100 Question from H2 Eli Whitney’s cotton gin
$100 Answer from H2 Boosted cotton production in the South
$200 Question from H2 Most whites in the south were
$200 Answer from H2 independent small farmers
$300 Question from H2 Americans came south to Texas in the 1820s because
$300 Answer from H2 Mexico offered them land grants
$400 Question from H2 The Know Nothings were…
$400 Answer from H2 Anti-Catholic Anti-Immigrant Nativists
$500 Question from H2 One reason the plantation system developed in the south was that
$500 Answer from H2 the climate and topography supported crops that required a large labor supply
$100 Question from H3 The statement “Cotton is King” demonstrates that
$100 Answer from H3 the majority of the value of United States exports came from cotton
$200 Question from H3 The publisher of The Liberator was
$200 Answer from H3 William Lloyd Garrison
$300 Question from H3 John Brown’s raid directly touched on one of the greatest fears of Southerners which was that
$300 Answer from H3 Slaves would revolt
$400 Question from H3 The effect of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin was that it
$400 Answer from H3 played on people’s sympathies
$500 Question from H3 The Fugitive Slave Act served the purpose of
$500 Answer from H3 satisfy Southerners who wanted slavery protected
$100 Question from H4 Which event was the immediate cause of the secession of several south states from the Union in 1860?
$100 Answer from H4 the election of President Abraham Lincoln
$200 Question from H4 What advantages did the north Have over the south
$200 Answer from H4 More people More industry More railroad lines
$300 Question from H4 What advantages did the south Have over the north
$300 Answer from H4 Better generals Farmers fight better than factory workers Know the terrain Fight defensively
$400 Question from H4 The Confederacy believed that France and Britain would intervene on their behalf because
$400 Answer from H4 they needed cotton for their factories
$500 Question from H4 What was a major result of the Civil War?
$500 Answer from H4 The power of the central government was strengthened Slavery ended
$100 Question from H5 A major purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation was to
$100 Answer from H5 give land to the freedman
$200 Question from H5 Abraham Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction can be characterized as
$200 Answer from H5 lenient
$300 Question from H5 What unconstitutional law caused Andrew Johnson to be impeached?
$300 Answer from H5 the Tenure of Office Act
$400 Question from H5 Radical Republicans opposed Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan because it
$400 Answer from H5 allowed the election of Confederate leaders in the South.
$500 Question from H5 What was the result of reconstruction?
$500 Answer from H5 Overall, it was a success because the South was brought back to the Union.
Final Jeopardy Select one of the following questions to answer in a well developed essay. A. Discuss the development of political parties in the Washington Administration. What factors caused the rise of the parties? How did the parties differ in regard to major issues? Which social and economic groups supported each party? B. Some historians portray Andrew Jackson as the champion of the democracy and the common man. Others claim that Jackson was an autocrat who had little sincere regard for the interests of the American people. Which image of Jackson comes closer to being correct? Why? C. Discuss the "military balance sheet" of the Civil War. What were the North's strengths and weaknesses? What were the South's strengths and weaknesses? Describe how these factors contributed to the North's victory in the war. D. What problems did the American government face as a result of westward expansion in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s? E. Explain why northern whites who opposed slavery and southern whites who supported slavery both believed that they were fighting to defend liberty.