Jeopardy AntebellumCivil WarReconstruction Gilded Age Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500

$100 Question from Antebellum A system in which the residents vote to decide an issue

$100 Answer from Antebellum What is popular sovereignty?

$200 Question from Antebellum A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas

$200 Answer from Antebellum What is the Underground Railroad?

$300 Question from Antebellum A law enacted as part of the Compromise of 1850, designed to ensure that escaped slaves are returned

$300 Answer from Antebellum What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

$400 Question from Antebellum The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union

$400 Answer from Antebellum What is secession?

$500 Question from Antebellum President Lincoln’s primary goal when he was elected President in 1860

$500 Answer from Antebellum What is preserving the Union?

$100 Question from Civil War A three part strategy by which the Union proposed to defeat the Confederacy during the Civil War

$100 Answer from Civil War What is the Anaconda Plan?

$200 Question from Civil War An executive order issued by Lincoln freeing the slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines

$200 Answer from Civil War What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

$300 Question from Civil War The most immediate result of Abraham Lincoln’s election of the presidency in 1860

$300 Answer from Civil War What is several Southern States seceding from the Union?

$400 Question from Civil War Reasons for Southern States to secede from the Union

$400 Answer from Civil War What are states rights, having the decision of whether to keep slavery or not, and thought that Lincoln was going to abolish slavery?

$500 Question from Civil War The institution of slavery was Formally abolished in the United States by this amendment

$500 Answer from Civil War What is the 13 th Amendment?

$100 Question from Reconstruction All persons born in the US (including former slaves) were citizens of the country and guaranteed equal protection

$100 Answer from Reconstruction What is the 14 th Amendment?

$200 Question from Reconstruction The period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War

$200 Answer from Reconstruction What is Reconstruction?

$300 Question from Reconstruction Allowed Hayes to become President and ended Reconstruction

$300 Answer from Reconstruction What is the Compromise of 1877?

$400 Question from Reconstruction Prohibits the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color or because of previous servitude

$400 Answer from Reconstruction What is the 15 th Amendment?

$500 Question from Reconstruction Discriminatory laws passed Throughout the post Civil War South which severely limited freedmen

$500 Answer from Reconstruction What are Black Codes?

$100 Question from Reconstruction The passage of Jim Crow laws in the South limited the effectiveness of these amendments

$100 Answer from Reconstruction What are the 14 th & 15 th Amendments?

$200 Question from Reconstruction Ten years following the Civil War, a large number of former slaves earned a living by doing this

$200 Answer from Reconstruction What is sharecropping?

$300 Question from Reconstruction The name of President Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan

$300 Answer from Reconstruction What is the 10% Plan?

$400 Question from Reconstruction Congressmen who advocated full Citizenship rights for African Americans along with a harsh Reconstruction policy toward the South

$400 Answer from Reconstruction Who are the Radical Republicans?

$500 Question from Reconstruction President Johnson was impeached for this

$500 Answer from Reconstruction What is the firing of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton?

$100 Question from Gilded Age Term coined by Mark Twain to describe the façade of prosperity

$100 Answer from Gilded Age What is the Gilded Age?

$200 Question from Gilded Age This person was the political boss of New York City’s Tammany Hall

$200 Answer from Gilded Age Who is William Marcy Tweed (Boss Tweed)?

$300 Question from Gilded Age This term best defines a person who used ruthless/cutthroat business tactics to make millions

$300 Answer from Gilded Age What is a robber baron?

$400 Question from Gilded Age The illegal use of political Influence for personal gain

$400 Answer from Gilded Age What is graft?

$500 Question from Gilded Age Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act were attempts by Congress to…

$500 Answer from Gilded Age What is regulate the activities of big business?