Bluff! A Game and Study Guide All In One!

Rules In turn, each team will be asked a question. Team members who know the answer will stand up. The other team will select ONE person standing up to answer the question. If that person gives a correct answer, the team will receive as many points as there are people standing up. If the answer is wrong, that many points will be subtracted.

Rules Continued Each team will select one scorekeeper. If no one from the team stands up, the other team will be awarded 5 points. If you do not stand up, or if you would not have if it was your team’s turn, then write the question and answer down to create your own study guide.

Question #1 What event in Harpers Ferry deepened the divisions between the North and the South before the Civil War?

Answer #1 John Brown’s raid.

Question #2 What is the name of the law that tried to force Americans to help capture escaped slaves?

Answer #2 Fugitive Slave Act

Question #3 True or False The demand for slaves decreased after the invention of the cotton gin.

Answer #3 False. It increased as more people began to grow cotton.

Question #4 What Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans were not citizens and could not sue in court?

Answer #4 The Dred Scott Decision

Question #5 What is the term used to describe a person who wants to put an end to slavery?

Answer #5 Abolitionist.

Question #6 True or False In 1860, most Whites in the South did not own slaves.

Answer #6 True. Only 16% of the population owned slaves.

Question #7 What was the Middle Passage?

Answer #7 The journey slave ships traveled to bring captured Africans to the Americas.

Question #8 What law overturned the Missouri Compromise and allowed the issue of slavery in the territories to be decided by popular sovereignty?

Answer #8 The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question #9 What is the term for the withdrawal of a state from the Union?

Answer #9 Secession.

Question #10 What was the first state to secede from the Union?

Answer #10 South Carolina

Question #11 Name 2 Union AND 2 Confederate military leaders.

Union - General Ulysses S. Grant, General George McClellan, General William Sherman, General Phil Sheridan, General George Meade, General Ambrose Burnside. Confederacy - General Robert E. Lee, General P.G.T. Beauregard, General Stonewall Jackson, General J.E.B. Stuart, General George Pickett

Question #12 Name 2 Union AND 2 Confederate victories during the Civil War.

Answer #12 Union - Gettysburg, Shiloh, Vicksburg, New Orleans, Petersburg, Richmond Confederate - Fort Sumter, Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Cold Harbor

Besides Controlling the Mississippi River and capturing the Confederate Capital, what else was part on the Union’s Anaconda Plan ?

Blockading the Southern Coast

Question #13 What action taken by President Lincoln after the Battle of Antietam granted freedom to slaves in areas controlled by the Confederacy?

Answer #13 The Emancipation Proclamation.

Question #14 Which battle took place first, Antietam or Gettysburg?

Answer #14 Antietam.

Question #15 What battle successfully stopped the Confederate invasion of the North and is considered the turning point of the war?

Answer #15 Gettysburg.

Question #16 What is the term for the type of warfare that destroys an opponent’s military AND economic resources?

Answer #16 Total War.

Question #17 What battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River?

Answer #17 Vicksburg.

Question #18 Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?

Answer #18 Appomattox, Virginia

Question #19 Which constitutional amendment abolished slavery?

Answer #19 13th Amendment

Question #20 Which amendment extended the right to vote to African- American males?

Answer #20 15th Amendment.

Question #21 Which amendment granted citizenship to all born in America except Native Americans?

Answer #21 14th Amendment.

Question #22 What was the period following the end of the Civil War called?

Answer #22 Reconstruction.

Question #23 What were the main goals of Reconstruction?

Answer #23 To restore the Union and create a southern economy not built on slavery.

Question #24 Who became President after Lincoln was assassinated?

Answer #24 Andrew Johnson

Question #25 Who killed Lincoln?

Answer #25 John Wilkes Booth

Question #26 What group in Congress took over Reconstruction when they thought Johnson was too sympathetic to the South?.

Answer #26 Radical Republicans.

Question 27 What white supremacist group used violent racism to intimidate newly freed African-Americans?

Answer #27 Ku Klux Klan

Question #28 What did Congress do to make sure civil rights laws were followed in the South?

Answer #28 Sent Federal troops to enforce the law.

Question #30 What book angered white Southerners because they though it did not describe slavery accurately?

Answer #30 Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question #31 What contribution did most women make during the Civil War?

Answer #31 They ran farms and business while the men were gone.

Question #32 What was Dred Scott suing about?

Answer #32 For his freedom.

Question #34 What two Senate candidates from Illinois held a series of debates about slavery?

Answer #34 Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.

Question #38 How did Congress respond to President Johnson’s resistance to their plans for Reconstruction?

Answer #38 They impeached him.

Question #39 What part of the Compromise of 1877 brought an end to Reconstruction?

Question #39 The removal of federal troops from the South

Question #40 What speech concluded with the the famous words “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”?

Question #40 The Gettysburg Address.