1. Review for Civil War Exam
Jeopardy!
Review for Civil War Exam

2. Rules for teams: Poor sportsmanship will result in loss of points.
(shouting out answers, getting upset at other students, etc.)
The class will be divided into teams.
Each team will have one person play at a time.
Only the person whose turn it is may answer.

3. Rules for answering questions:
After the question is read, the player is allowed 5 seconds to respond before losing points and allowing the next team to answer.
If a player answers the question without viewing the choices, the risk is doubled. For example, if it is $200 question and it is answered correctly it is worth $400. If it is missed, the team loses $400
If a team fails to answer a question correctly, they will lose the points and the other team may steal the question.
The last team to correctly answer a question will select the next category and question.

4. Rules for Daily Double :
If a team selects the daily double question that team will be the only team allowed to answer the question for extra points.
The maximum points a team can wager is the amount they already have or 500 points if they have fewer than 500 points.
If an incorrect answer is given, the other team may try to steal, but only for the original amount of the chosen question.

5. Today’s Game :
The purpose of today’s game is to review the Civil War and Reconstruction
Topics will include:
North and South
Battles
Documents and Speeches
People
Legislation

6. The Most Important Rule:
Mrs. Hopkins gets to change the rules at any time, for any reason, or for no reason.
Secession is not an option for those who believe otherwise.

7. This Is
Jeopardy!
(Applause)

8. Documents and Speeches
North and South
People
Legislation
Battles
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9. North and South 100
This cause of the Civil War resulted in South Carolina seceding from the union
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10. What conclusion can be drawn from the graphic?
North and South 200
What conclusion can be drawn from the graphic?
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11. North and South 300
The name given to laws passed in the south that were designed to restrict the rights of African Americans.
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12. North and South 400
Name the order issued by Lincoln that freed slaves in Confederate territory.
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13. North and South 500
This map showing the election results of 1860 clearly demonstrates what “ism” we have studied in class?
m/c

14. The first shots of the Civil War
Battles 100
The first shots of the Civil War
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15. Battles 200
The battle in which the South invaded the North for the first time; it was the bloodiest day of battle in U.S. History
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16. Battles 300
This three day battle is considered to be the turning point in the war.
m/c

17. This event is considered the end of the war...
Battles 400
This event is considered the end of the war...
m/c

18. What was significant about the Battle of Vicksburg?
Battles 500
What was significant about the Battle of Vicksburg?
m/c

19. Documents and Speeches 100
“Government of the people... By the people... For the people...” – Gettysburg Address
“We the people of the United States...”
–U.S. Constitution
“...governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” --Declaration of Independence
Which Constitutional Principle is reflected by all three of these document excerpts?
m/c

20. Documents and Speeches 200
Individual rights guaranteed by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution were aimed at what group of Americans?
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21. Lincoln’s #1 priority when he became president
Documents and Speeches 300
Lincoln’s #1 priority when he became president
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22. Documents and Speeches 400
At what occasion was Lincoln when he spoke these famous words: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
m/c

23. Describe Abraham Lincoln’s views about Reconstruction
Documents and Speeches 500
Describe Abraham Lincoln’s views about Reconstruction
m/c

24. Confederate General and Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia?
People 100
Confederate General and Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia?
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25. First African American elected to the United States Senate
People 200
DAILY DOUBLE!
First African American elected to the United States Senate
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26. People 300
In the Compromise of 1877, what did the Republicans agree to do if Rutherford B. Hayes was elected?
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27. For what are Phillip Bazaar and William Carney famous?
People 400
For what are Phillip Bazaar and William Carney famous?
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28. People 500
This president was impeached, but not convicted, largely due to disagreements with Congress over Reconstruction policies.
m/c

29. Legislation 100
This Reconstruction Governmental Agency established schools for former slaves
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30. Legislation 200
This law was designed to encourage settlement west of the Mississippi River by providing government land at little cost to settlers
m/c

31. Legislation 300
One aim of this law was to assimilate Indians into American society by dividing tribal land and distributing it to individuals
m/c

32. Legislation 400
This law granted each state federal land to use to establish colleges and universities
m/c

33. m/c Identify the law in the excerpt above.
Legislation 500
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Identify the law in the excerpt above.
m/c

34. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published Dred Scott v. Sanford decision
North and South 100
This cause of the Civil War resulted in South Carolina seceding from the union
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published
Dred Scott v. Sanford decision
C. The Compromise of 1850
D. The election of Abraham Lincoln

35. What conclusion can be drawn?
North and South 200
What conclusion can be drawn?
That the South had many advantages over the North
That the North could be expected to win the war easily
That most northerners were anti-slavery
That manufacturing was important in the south

36. A The Dawes Acts B Black Codes C Freedman Laws D Bondsmen Ordinances
North and South 300
The name given to laws passed in the south that were designed to restrict the rights of African Americans.
A The Dawes Acts
B Black Codes
C Freedman Laws
D Bondsmen Ordinances

37. A The Emancipation Proclamation B The Civil Rights Act of 1866
North and South 400
Name the order issued by Lincoln that freed slaves in Confederate territory.
A The Emancipation Proclamation
B The Civil Rights Act of 1866
C The 13th Amendment
D The Liberation Law

38. Capitalism Nationalism Mercantilism Sectionalism North and South 500
This map showing the election results of 1860 clearly demonstrates what “ism” we have studied in class?
Capitalism
Nationalism
Mercantilism
Sectionalism

39. The first shots of the Civil War
Battles 100
The first shots of the Civil War
A Antietam
B Bull Run
C Fort Sumter
D Fort Wagner

40. A Bull Run B Gettysburg C Vicksburg D Antietam Battles 200
The battle in which the South invaded the North for the first time; it was the bloodiest day of battle in U.S. History
A Bull Run
B Gettysburg
C Vicksburg
D Antietam

41. A Antietam B Bull Run C Vicksburg D Gettysburg Battles 300
This three day battle is considered to be the turning point in the war.
A Antietam
B Bull Run
C Vicksburg
D Gettysburg

42. This event is considered the end of the war...
Battles 400
This event is considered the end of the war...
A Appomattox
B Bull Run
C Vicksburg
D Gettysburg

43. What was significant about the Battle of Vicksburg?
Battles 500
What was significant about the Battle of Vicksburg?
Lee’s attempt to invade the North was defeated in the bloodiest day of fighting in the war
Sherman’s army blazed a 60 mile wide swath of destruction through Georgia which brought the end of the war much closer
General Grant took the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River, completing the “Anaconda Plan”
Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia was finally defeated and he surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant

44. A Republicanism B Separation of Powers C Popular Sovereignty
Documents and Speeches 100
Which Constitutional Principle is reflected by all three of these document excerpts?
“Government of the people... By the people... For the people...” – Gettysburg Address
“We the people of the United States...”
–U.S. Constitution
“...governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” --Declaration of Independence
A Republicanism
B Separation of Powers
C Popular Sovereignty
D Individual Rights

45. Documents and Speeches 200
Individual rights guaranteed by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution were aimed at what group of Americans?
A. Women
B. Irish immigrants
C. Former Confederate soldiers
D. Freed slaves
$200 bonus: Name the rights guaranteed.

46. A End slavery in the United States B Keep the Union together
Documents and Speeches 300
Lincoln’s #1 priority when he became president
A End slavery in the United States
B Keep the Union together
C Get new amendments passed
D Punish South Carolina for seceding

47. Documents and Speeches 400
At what occasion was Lincoln when he spoke these famous words: “Four score and seven years ago…”
The dedication of the site of the Battle of Gettysburg
His first inauguration in Washington, D.C.
His debate with Stephen Douglas in Illinois
His second inauguration

48. He felt that the South should be punished for causing the war
Documents and Speeches 500
Describe Abraham Lincoln’s views about Reconstruction
He felt that the South should be punished for causing the war
He wanted to be lenient and let the states return as quickly as possible
He wanted Confederate soldiers to be banned from ever voting again
Southern states could return if they granted women the right to vote

49. Confederate General and Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia?
People 100
Confederate General and Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia?
A Abraham Lincoln
B Stonewall Jackson
C Ulysses S. Grant
D Robert E. Lee

50. First African American elected to the United States Senate
People 200
First African American elected to the United States Senate
A George McClellan
B Frederick Douglas
C William Tecumseh Sherman
D Hiram Rhodes Revels

51. A Repeal the 15th Amendment
People 300
In the Compromise of 1877, what did the Republicans agree to do if Rutherford B. Hayes was elected?
A Repeal the 15th Amendment
B Withdraw federal troops from southern states and end Reconstruction
C Pass Black Codes in northern states
D Pay extra for southern cotton

52. For what are Phillip Bazaar and William Carney famous?
People 400
For what are Phillip Bazaar and William Carney famous?
Both earned the Congressional Medal of Honor
They were commanders at the Battle of Gettysburg
They were the presidential and vice presidential candidates against Lincoln
They co-sponsored the Homestead Act

53. A Abraham Lincoln B Rutherford B. Hayes C Ulysses S. Grant
People 500
This president was impeached, but not convicted, largely due to disagreements with Congress over Reconstruction policies.
A Abraham Lincoln
B Rutherford B. Hayes
C Ulysses S. Grant
D Andrew Johnson

54. The Southern Public Education Program The Negro College Fund
Legislation 100
This Reconstruction Governmental Agency established schools for former slaves
The Southern Public Education Program
The Negro College Fund
The Freedman’s Bureau
The Dawes Agency

55. The Pacific Railway Act
Legislation 200
This law was designed to encourage settlement west of the Mississippi River by providing government land at little cost to settlers
The Dawes Act
The Morrill Act
The Homestead Act
The Pacific Railway Act

56. The Bureau of Indian Affairs Act The Morrill Act
Legislation 300
One aim of this law was to assimilate Indians into American society by dividing tribal land and distributing it to individuals
The Bureau of Indian Affairs Act
The Morrill Act
The Indian Removal Act
The Dawes Act

57. The Morrill Act The Dawes Act The Sedition Act The College Land Act
Legislation 400
This law granted each state federal land to use to establish colleges and universities
The Morrill Act
The Dawes Act
The Sedition Act
The College Land Act

58. The Dred Scott Decision The 13th Amendment
Legislation 500
Identify the law.
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
The Freedman Law
The 15th Amendment
The Dred Scott Decision
The 13th Amendment