Industrial Revolution Westward Expansion Government ConstitutionDepression Colonies $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 JEOPARDY!
1 - $100 question Why do people buy stock in a company?
1 - $100 answer so they can get a share of the profit that the company makes
1 - $200 question Instead of people making a lot of goods to sell, what made more of the goods during the Industrial Revolution?
1 - $200 answer machines
1 - $300 question How did factories make more products quickly?
1 - $300 answer they used the assembly line idea
1 - $400 question When did the Industrial Revolution roughly take place?
1 - $400 answer
1 - $500 question Even though factories grew rapidly during this time, what is one negative effect it had on the workers?
1 - $500 answer #1 less workers were needed because machines did a lot of work #2 working on an assembly line could get boring
2 - $100 question What part of the country did people build sod houses and used barbed wire fences?
2 - $100 answer the Great Plains
2 - $200 question What is one method that people used to move west in New York State?
2 - $200 answer the Erie Canal
2 - $300 question What is the belief called where people thought they were supposed to move west all the way to the Pacific Ocean?
2 - $300 answer Manifest Destiny
2 - $400 question Why did people move to California in the late 1840s? Hint: the “49ers”
2 - $400 answer to find gold
2 - $500 question What mode of transportation helped people to move west and was completed in 1869?
2 - $500 answer the transcontinental railroad
3 - $100 question If the president vetoes a bill, the congress can do what if they get 2/3 of the Congress to agree
3 - $100 answer override the president’s veto
3 - $200 question The Supreme Court can decide that a law is unconstitutional. This is called…
3 - $200 answer judicial review
3 - $300 question When George Bush sent troops to fight in the Persian Gulf he was acting as …
3 - $300 answer commander in chief
3 - $400 question What is true about states with a larger population when it comes to electing the president?
3 - $400 answer Larger states (NY, CA, TX)have more electoral votes. States with smaller populations (AK, RI, HI) have fewer votes
3 - $500 question Which court case gave the Supreme Court power to decide if a law is unconstitutional?
3 - $500 answer Marbury vs. Madison
4 - $100 question When deciding on the Constitution they debated over what?
4 - $100 answer how large and small states could both be fairly represented in Congress
4 - $200 question How can lawmakers change the Constitution?
4 - $200 answer they can make an amendment
4 - $300 question Which document is described by the following: * Congress couldn’t collect taxes * Congress couldn’t regulate trading * there was no national court
4 - $300 answer Articles of Confederation
4 - $400 question What does the First Amendment protect?
4 - $400 answer * freedom of speech, religion, meeting together, … Others?
4 - $500 question The Great Compromise helped create the…
4 - $500 answer The Constitution.
5 - $100 question What event caused so many people to become unemployed?
5 - $100 answer the stock market crash
5 - $200 question Which decade is associated with the Depression and the tough times that followed? A. 1920s B. 1930s C. 1940s
5 - $200 answer the 1930s
5 - $300 question Although the New Deal helped get the US out of the Depression, why did some people oppose it?
5 - $300 answer they thought the government be getting too involved and would ruin the free-enterprise system
5 - $400 question Name 3 causes of the Depression!
5 - $400 answer * people buying stocks on margin * overusing credit * supply was too high, demand too low
5 - $500 question Name a New Deal program that is still around today!
5 - $500 answer Social Security Act
6 - $100 question What part of the country did the first white settlers build in?
6 - $100 answer the Atlantic Coast
6 - $200 question What river was in New France?
6 - $200 answer the St. Lawrence River
6 - $300 question The colonists said “no taxation without representation.” Who made them pay taxes?
6 - $300 answer the English parliament
6 - $400 question Put these in order chronologically… * Boston Tea Party * Declaration of Independence * French and Indian War
6 - $400 answer *1 st : French and Indian War * 2 nd : Boston Tea Party * 3 rd : Declaration of Independence
6 - $500 question What do molasses and rum and slaves” have to do with one another?
6 - $500 answer triangular trade The US to Africa to England