1. Civil War Jeopardy Copyright © 2002 Glenna R. Shaw and FTC Publishing
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2. Let’s Play
Final Challenge
Politics
Slavery
Compromises
Fighting
Grab Bag
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3. Politics for 100
The Republicans
100
This new political party emerged in the 1850s. It opposed the expansion of slavery and supported economic development.

4. What allowed Abraham Lincoln to win the 1860 presidential election?
Politics for 200
There were a total of 4 candidates. Since the Democrats could not decide on just one, both Douglas and Breckinridge ran, which divided Democratic voters.
200
What allowed Abraham Lincoln to win the 1860 presidential election?

5. Politics for 300
In ruling that Congress could not outlaw slavery in a state or territory (i.e. overturning the MO Compromise), it became impossible to outlaw slavery nationwide without a constitutional amendment.
300
How did the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford limit the legal actions of abolitionists?

6. Politics for 400
Admitting Missouri, a slave state, would have given slave states an advantage in the U.S. Senate.
The Missouri Compromise maintained this balance by also admitting Maine as a free state.
400
Why did northerners oppose admitting Missouri as a state until the Missouri Compromise?

7. Politics for 500
NO VOTES
500
How many electoral votes did Lincoln win from southern states in the election 1860?

8. True or False… Most southern whites owned slaves.
Slavery for 100
False.
Only 25% of southern whites owned slaves. Most were too poor to buy them.
100
True or False… Most southern whites owned slaves.

9. 200 Slavery for 200 It freed the slaves in the Confederate states.
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

10. Slavery for 300
To preserve the Union
300
According to Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, what was the original purpose of the Civil War?

11. True or False... Lincoln believed in racial equality.
Slavery for 400
False… In his 1858 speech in the Lincoln-Douglas debates, he said that he did not believe blacks and whites were intellectually equal.
400
True or False... Lincoln believed in racial equality.

12. What power did Lincoln use to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
Slavery for 500
Commander in Chief
(War Powers)
500
What power did Lincoln use to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

13. The Missouri Compromise
Compromises for 100
The Missouri Compromise
100
What compromise outlawed slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the line 36º30’?

14. How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act deal with the slavery issue?
Compromises for 200
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide the slavery issue through popular sovereignty (by voting).
200
How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act deal with the slavery issue?

15. Compromises for 300
Maine was admitted to the Union as a free state and Missouri entered as a slave state.
300
Other than outlawing slavery north of the line 36º30, what did the Missouri Compromise do?

16. Compromises for 400
The Compromise of 1850
California admitted as a free state.
Slave trade (but not slavery) banned in Washington, D.C.
Utah and New Mexico territories to decide slavery through popular sovereignty
The Fugitive Slave Act passed
400
Identify the four parts of the Compromise of 1850 that dealt with slavery?

17. What violent event was a direct result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Compromises for 500
“Bleeding Kansas”
500
What violent event was a direct result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

18. Fighting for 100
The Anaconda Plan
100
This was the name of the Union’s strategy of suffocating the Confederacy through a naval blockade, controlling the Mississippi River, and marching across the deep South.

19. What made Sherman’s March to the Sea militarily effective?
Fighting for 200
By waging total war & using scorched earth tactics, Sherman’s troops made life very uncomfortable for southern civilians and destroyed any resources that would have been useful to the Confederate army.
200
What made Sherman’s March to the Sea militarily effective?

20. 300 Fighting for 300 Gettysburg
Vicksburg
300
Identify the one battle that is widely seen as a “turning point” in the Civil War?

21. Identify the first battle of the Civil War?
Fighting for 400
First Battle: Fort Sumter
400
Identify the first battle of the Civil War?

22. What made the Civil War so bloody?
Fighting for 500
New Weapons + Old Tactics = Death
The armies used Napoleonic tactics (like head-on charges over open ground), but new weapons (such as pointed bullets, spiral-bored rifles, and artillery shells) made this almost suicidal.
500
What made the Civil War so bloody?

23. What was the main goal of John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, VA?
Grab Bag for 100
John Brown hoped to use the weapons he seized to start a massive slave rebellion that would eventually lead to the end of slavery.
100
What was the main goal of John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, VA?

24. Who was the most famous “conductor” on the Underground Railroad?
Grab Bag for 200
Harriet Tubman
200
Who was the most famous “conductor” on the Underground Railroad?

25. Grab Bag for 300
There were many abolitionists but some famous ones include…
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abraham Lincoln
John Brown
300
Identify a famous abolitionists.

26. Name the three major causes of the Civil War?
Grab Bag for 400
Slavery
Sectionalism
States’ Rights
400
Name the three major causes of the Civil War?

27. 500 Grab Bag for 500 Fight a War of Attrition
(make it long and expensive)
Gain an alliance with Great Britain or France, BUT AN EMBARGO WAS ORDERED
500
What was the Confederacy’s strategy for winning the Civil War?

28. Write Your Final Challenge Wager
End Game
Write Your
Final Challenge
Wager
March 1861 (Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address): The war was to “preserve the Union.”
Jan (Emancipation Proclamation): It became war to end slavery (i.e. a war for freedom).
How did Lincoln define the purpose of the war in March 1861? For the Union, how did the war’s purpose change by January 1, 1863?
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