Jeopardy The Game of Knowledge

The Road to War AbolitionistsSectionalismVarious Events Leading to War 100

Sectionalism $100? We were known as the “War Hawks” we were from the North, South and West.

Sectionalism $100 Answer Clay, Calhoun & Webster

Sectionalism $200? we were the center of cotton- production, contained only slave states (with a population of more than 4 million slaves), that opposed high tariffs

Sectionalism $200 Answer The South

Sectionalism $300? Our politicians generally believed in states’ rights, an argument based on the 10th Amendment that the United States was a union of sovereign states which had the right to judge whether a law passed by Congress was constitutional. States’ rights advocates also believed that federal authority was limited.

Sectionalism $300 Answer The South

Sectionalism $400? Our politicians were split in their stand on the issue of states’ rights.

Sectionalism $400 Answer the West

Sectionalism $500? This word means loyalty to one’s region or state, instead of to the entire nation

Sectionalism $500 Answer Sectionalism

Abolitionists $100? I was the publisher of “The North Star”

Abolitionists $100 Answer Frederick Douglass

Abolitionists $200? I was a violent abolitionist who was involved in Bleeding Kansas and Harper’s Ferry, Va.

Abolitionists $200 Answer John Brown

Abolitionists $300? I was the leader who helped to rescue over 300 slaves from slavery in the South.

Abolitionists $300 Answer Harriet Tubman

Abolitionists $400? I was the publisher of the abolitionist newspaper “The Liberator”

Abolitionists $400 Answer William Lloyd Garrison

Abolitionists $500? I led a revolt of slaves in Virginia in About 60 whites were killed by him and his followers. Following the rebellion, about 55 blacks were executed by the state, but more than 200 were killed by white mobs in retaliation.

Abolitionists $500 Answer Nat Turner

Various $100? This region was composed of: Cities Factory workers A developed industrial base They favored a high tariff

Various $100 Answer The north

Various $200? All these statements sparked what event: In 1824, the tariff was raised to 35%, over Southern opposition. In 1828, the tariff was raised to 50%. South Carolina refused to collect the tariff of 1828 and the tariff of 1832 President Andrew Jackson threatened to send federal troops into the state to collect the tariff.

Various $200 Answer The Nullification Crisis

Various $300? This invention caused the production of cotton to increase dramatically and slave labor was the most economical way to pick the cotton.

Various $300 Answer The cotton gin

Various $400? This type of impact deals with t he decision was based on the considerations of (property rights), not moral grounds. The Courts decision meant that property would be protected in the United States. Since slaves were property, in effect the Constitution protected slavery.

Various $400 Answer Economic Impact

Various $500? The Impact of this court case was: Living in a free state does not make a former slave free. Congress had no right to prohibit slavery because this would interfere with property rights. Therefore the Missouri Compromise which prohibited slavery in territories and states north of the Missouri line was unconstitutional.

Various $500 Answer Dred Scott

Events Leading to War $100? This is a map of

Events Leading to War $100 Answer The Compromise of 1850

Events Leading to War $200 I wrote Uncle Toms Cabin

Events Leading to War $200 Answer Harriet Beecher Stowe

Events Leading to War $300? Partly as a response to “Bleeding Kansas,” a new political party was formed. This party participated in its first national election in 1856, and was defeated. Abolitionists and anti-slavery Northerners formed this party for the specific purpose of keeping slavery from spreading to any new territories. By winning state and national elections, they hoped to gain enough political power to make the spread of slavery illegal. Many Southerners misinterpreted the goals of the party to mean abolishing all slavery in the United States.

Events Leading to War $300 Answer The Republican Party

Events Leading to War $400? This Republican candidate was elected the 16th President of the United States. He defeated two Democrats. Although he campaigned on the Republican Platform of keeping slavery from spreading, many Southerners thought he was an abolitionist.

Events Leading to War $400 Answer Abraham Lincoln

Events Leading to War $500? This is part of what compromise: Popular sovereignty (voting) in the Utah and New Mexico Territories. In the rest of the Mexican Cession (land acquired after the Mexican War) the people in these areas would be allowed to vote on whether to allow slavery in their territories. Before this, Congress had always made that decision. This allowed the possibility of slavery in these territories.

Events Leading to War $500 Answer Compromise of 1850