Jeopardy YearsPresidents American Revolution ConstitutionCourt Cases Colonial Leaders Round Two

Years-100 Jamestown was settled in this year. What is 1607? BACK

Years-200 The Civil War was fought in these years. What is 1861 to 1865? BACK

Years-300 This was the year the colonies declared independence from Great Britain. What is 1776? BACK

Years-400 The Louisiana Purchase was made in this year. What is 1803? BACK

Years-500 This is the year the Constitution was written. What is 1787? BACK

Presidents-100 This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Who is Abraham Lincoln? BACK

Presidents-200 This president set many precedents for future presidents. Who is George Washington? BACK

Presidents-300 This president protected Latin America. Who is James Monroe? BACK

Presidents-400 This president was in office during the War of 1812 and he is considered the “Father of the Constitution?” Who is James Madison? BACK

Presidents-500 This president was a supporter of states’ rights. Who is Thomas Jefferson? BACK

American Revolution-100 This battle is considered the turning point of the war because the Patriot victory resulted in the French joining the American cause. What is the Battle of Saratoga? BACK

American Revolution-200 This was the final battle of the Revolution. What is the Battle of Yorktown? BACK

American Revolution-300 This man was one of the founders of the Sons of Liberty. Who is Sam Adams? BACK

American Revolution-400 This person was a naval hero that said, “I have not yet begun to fight.” Who is John Paul Jones? BACK

American Revolution-500 This famous French general helped the Americans at the final battle of the Revolution. Who is Marquis de LaFayette? BACK

Constitution-100 These 3 branches of government show separation of powers. What are executive, legislative, and judicial branches? BACK

Constitution-200 The presidential veto is an example of this constitutional principle. What is checks and balances? BACK

Constitution-300 This is the city in which the Constitution was written. What is Philadelphia? BACK

Constitution-400 This term describes a government in which people have the final authority in political decisions. What is popular sovereignty? BACK

Constitution-500 This term describes a type of government in which the power is divided between national and state governments. What is federalism? BACK

Court Cases-100 In this court case, a slave fought for his freedom. What is Dred Scott v. Sanford? BACK

Court Cases-200 This court case established the power of judicial review. What is Marbury v. Madison? BACK

Court Cases-300 This court case established the power of the national government over the states. What is McCulloch v. Maryland? BACK

Court Cases-400 This Chief Justice of the Supreme Court gave more power to the judicial branch with the power of judicial review. Who is John Marshall? BACK

Court Cases-500 This court case established the national government’s power to regulate commerce. What is Gibbons v. Ogden? BACK

Colonial Leaders-100 This leader established Pennsylvania. Who is William Penn? BACK

Colonial Leaders-200 This person saved Jamestown. Who is John Smith? BACK

Colonial Leaders-300 This man said “Give me liberty or give me death.” Who is Patrick Henry? BACK

Colonial Leaders-400 This person created the Albany Plan of Union. Who is Benjamin Franklin? BACK

Colonial Leaders-500 This man’s pamphlet encouraged the colonies to break free from Great Britain. Who is Thomas Paine? BACK

Jeopardy! Reform Movements Civil WarAmendments Age of Jackson Early Republic Potpourri Round Three

Reform Movements-100 Quakers, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass were all early reformers in this movement. What is the abolitionist movement? BACK

Reform Movements-200 This woman advocated for women’s rights and helped to organize the Seneca Falls convention. Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton? BACK

Reform Movements-300 As a transcendentalist, he wrote Walden Pond and Civil Disobedience, suggesting people be self-reliant and follow their own conscience. Who is Henry David Thoreau? BACK

Reform Movements-400 This religious movement led to the more reform movements. What is the Second Great Awakening? BACK

Reform Movements-500 People joined this reform movement because they thought alcohol contributed to poverty and crime. What is the temperance movement? BACK

Civil War-100 This person was the president of the Confederacy. Who is Jefferson Davis? BACK

Civil War-200 This freed the slaves in the Confederacy. What is the Emancipation Proclamation? BACK

Civil War-300 This person left the U.S. Army to join the Confederate army to be the commander. Who is Robert E. Lee? BACK

Civil War-400 This speech was delivered at the dedication of a national cemetery. What is the Gettysburg Address? BACK

Civil War-500 This person became famous during the Civil War and later became the 18 th president. Who is Ulysses Grant? BACK

Amendments-100 These amendments delayed ratification of the Constitution until they were added in What are amendments 1-10? What is the Bill of Rights? BACK

Amendments-200 This amendment gives all Americans the right to bear arms. What is the 2 nd amendment? BACK

Amendments-300 This amendment freed all slaves. What is the 13 th amendment? BACK

Amendments-400 The 15 th amendment offered suffrage to this group of Americans. What are males? BACK

Amendments-500 This amendment defines citizenship. What is the 14 th amendment? BACK

The Age of Jackson-100 This act forced many Native Americans to leave their homes and re-settle in the Indian Territory. What is the Indian Removal Act? BACK

The Age of Jackson-200 This refers to Jackson’s action of giving political offices to political backers. What is the spoils system? BACK

The Age of Jackson-300 This man debated for the preservation of the Union and against nullification against Robert Hayne. Who is Daniel Webster? BACK

The Age of Jackson-400 This man led opposition to the Tariff of 1828 in South Carolina. Who is John C. Calhoun? BACK

The Age of Jackson-500 This refers to when South Carolina threatened to secede over high protective tariffs. What is the Nullification Crisis? BACK

Early Republic-100 This president appointed John Jay as the first Supreme court justice. Who George Washington? BACK

Early Republic-200 Alexander Hamilton helped to write these papers in order to convince others to ratify the Constitution. What are the Federalist Papers? BACK

Early Republic-300 This statement of foreign policy proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs in the western hemisphere. What is the Monroe Doctrine? BACK

Early Republic-400 This man was known as the “Great Compromiser.” Who is Henry Clay? BACK

Early Republic-500 These were the first five presidents. Who are Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe? BACK

Potpourri-100 Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are considered to be this type of right. What is an unalienable right? BACK

Potpourri-200 This man refused to sign the Constitution because it did not have a Bill of Rights. Who is George Mason? BACK

Potpourri-300 This law provided a systematic way to allow new states into the Union. What is the Northwest Ordinance? BACK

Potpourri-400 Founding Fathers exhibited this quality when they took an active role in improving their community. What is civic virtue? BACK

Potpourri-500 This is a person who is of foreign birth who is granted full citizenship. What is a naturalized citizen? BACK

Jeopardy! Reform Vocabulary Civil War Vocabulary Constitution Vocabulary New Nation Vocabulary Westward Vocabulary Potpourri Final Jeopardy

Reform Vocabulary-100 Things that make a person want to leave their home country. What are push factors? BACK

Reform Vocabulary-200 The act of freeing people from slavery. What is emancipation? BACK

Reform Vocabulary-300 The right to vote. What is suffrage? BACK

Reform Vocabulary-400 An attitude of superiority and resentment towards immigrants and foreign people. What is nativism? BACK

Reform Vocabulary-500 The large-scale introduction of manufacturing, advanced technical enterprises, and other economic activity into an area What is industrialization? BACK

Civil War Vocabulary-100 An agreement in which both sides in an argument agree to give up something they want to get something else. What is compromise? BACK

Civil War Vocabulary-200 A person who believed in the ending of slavery. What is an abolitionist? BACK

Civil War Vocabulary-300 The act of withdrawing or leaving an alliance; like southern states leaving the Union. What is secession? BACK

Civil War Vocabulary-400 Slave-owning states that did not secede from the Union. What are border states? BACK

Civil War Vocabulary-500 The selection of citizens for mandatory military service? What is draft or conscription? BACK

Constitution Vocabulary- 100 To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office What is impeachment? BACK

Constitution Vocabulary- 200 Powers both the states and the government shared together.. What are concurrent powers? BACK

Constitution Vocabulary- 300 Process by which an amendment is approved. What is ratification? BACK

Constitution Vocabulary- 400 The rights that are guaranteed by the Constitution to all people as citizens, especially equality under the law. What are civil rights? BACK

Constitution Vocabulary- 500 Power retained by the states, including power to establish schools, set marriage and divorce laws, and regulation of trade within borders. What are reserved powers? BACK

The New Nation Vocabulary-100 Inferring the meaning of the Constitution by reading ‘between the lines’. What is implied powers? BACK

The New Nation Vocabulary-200 The economic system in the U.S. that includes economic choice, profit motive, and limited government regulation of the economy. What is free-enterprise system? BACK

The New Nation Vocabulary-300 Guidelines or actions for dealing with issues with other countries. What is foreign policy? BACK

The New Nation Vocabulary-400 A policy of not dealing with other countries; only taking care of your own country. What is isolationism? BACK

The New Nation Vocabulary-500 A system where power is shared between the national and state governments. What is federalism? BACK

Westward Vocabulary-100 Related to or having to do with rural farming areas. What is agrarian? BACK

Westward Vocabulary-200 Belief that it was America’s right and duty to spread across the North American continent. What is manifest destiny? BACK

Westward Vocabulary-300 The people, mostly young men, who joined the gold rush in California. Who are the forty-niners? BACK

Westward Vocabulary-400 A person who is among those first to enter or settle a region, opening it occupation/ What is a pioneer? BACK

Westward Vocabulary-500 To yield or transfer to another by treaty or surrender by force. What is cede or cession? BACK

Potpourri-100 Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are considered to be this type of right. What is an unalienable right? BACK

Potpourri-200 Free and equal participation in a government where power is in the people and exercised by them indirectly through the election of representatives. What is democratic? BACK

Potpourri-300 The act of gaining something, like land. What is acquisition? BACK

Potpourri-400 Money or a bribe paid to offer ‘protection’ What is tribute? BACK

Potpourri-500 The work of keeping a good relationships with other countries. What is diplomacy? BACK

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