The Democracy Pyramid

Game Rules Teams divided into groups One partner has their back to the TV Other partner faces them while looking at the TV When the answer is given on the TV the sender begins giving clues PASS if you don’t know that answer There are 7 questions per round We will be playing 3 rounds Team with the highest total moves onto the Final Round

Each team must now choose their first two contestants. First group step up to the front, other groups step outside.

Round 1

Stamp Act

Intolerable Acts

Articles of Confederation

Great Compromise

Thomas Paine

5th Amendment

Compromise of 1850

Answers

Placed a tax on goods imported from Britain

Prompted the colonies to assemble the First Continental Congress

Set up a Congress in which each state had 1 vote; weak central government

Set up a 2-house legislature; 1 house had = representation, 1 house was based on population

Wrote Common Sense, urging the colonies to separate from Great Britain

5th amendment in Bill of Rights; allows people to avoid self- incrimination, double jeopardy. Need due process of law. Eminent domain.

Allowed CA to be admitted as a free state, stricter fugitive slave laws, popular sovereignty for new territories

Now two NEW contestants from each group

Round 2

Popular sovereignty

Dred Scott decision

Emancipation Proclamation

Free Soilers

15th Amendment

Sharecroppers

Harriet Tubman

Round 2 Answers

Allowed residents of the territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed in a territory

Declared the being in a free territory did not make a slave free.

Abolished slavery in the North

Northerners who wanted to keep slavery out of the territories but did not have positive feelings toward African Americans

Stated that no citizen may be denied the right to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Farmers who agreed to give most of their harvest to the landowners in exchange for use of the land, seeds, & tools

Helped over 300 slaves safely flee th South by using a system known as the Underground Railroad

Round 3

Jefferson Davis

Fugitive Slave Act

Confederacy

Kansas Nebraska Act

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Eminent Domain

Checks & Balances

Round 3 Answers

President of the Confederacy

Defined slaves as property

Southern states seceeded from the Union

Divided the Nebraska Territory

Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, using a moral argument against slavery

Allows the government to take private property for public use with just compensation

The system that maintains the separation of powers among the three branches of the federal government

Winner’s Circle

Your team needs 5 out of 6 to win!!! Choose your 2 contestants

Boston Tea Party

100

100

Ratification

100150

100150

Elastic Clause

Shay’s Rebellion

Electoral College

13th Amendment