1. 8th Grade History
Topic: American Civil War
Aim: Civil War Jeopardy
Homework: Study for your test tomorrow
Do Now: Let’s get started!

2. This is Jeopardy...

3. People Places Events Vocabulary 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200
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Final Jeopardy

4. People- 100
He was the president during the Civil War:
Jeopardy Answer

5. Answer- People 100
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Jeopardy

6. People- 200
A slave who escaped and became a conductor on the Underground Railroad, returning to the South 19 times:
Jeopardy
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7. Answer- People 200
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Jeopardy

8. People- 300 He was the president of the Confederate States Jeopardy
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9. Answer- People 300
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Jeopardy

10. People- 400 Leader of the Confederate Army during the Civil War Answer
Jeopardy

11. Answer- People 400
Who was Robert E. Lee?
Jeopardy

12. People - 500
Daily Double

13. People- 500
The leader of the Union Army during the last years of the Civil War
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14. Answer- DAILY DOUBLE
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
Jeopardy

15. Places- 100
The secret route that slaves used to escape from freedom in the North
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16. Answer Places- 100
What was the Underground Railroad?
Jeopardy

17. Places- 200
These states were located between the Union states and the Confederate states. Both North and South wanted them on their side.
Jeopardy
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18. Answer- Places 200
What were the border states?
Jeopardy

19. Places- 300
The places where civilians are active when their country is at war – this is where they await for their loved ones who are fighting in the war.
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20. Answer Places- 300
What is the homefront?
Jeopardy

21. Places- 400
One of Grant’s most important victories was made here. After this the Mississippi River belonged to the Union.
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22. Answer Places- 400
What was Vicksburg, Mississippi
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23. Places- 500 Sherman’s “March to the Sea” ended in this place. Answer
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24. Answer –Place 500
What is Savannah, Georgia
Jeopardy

25. Event- 100
The South won this battle and the Civil War officially began
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26. Answer- Event 100
What was the Battle at Fort Sumter?
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27. Event- 200
An inspiring speech given by Abraham Lincoln, which spoke of the ideals of liberty and equality on which the country had been founded.
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28. Answer Events- 200
What was the Gettysburg Address?
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29. Event- 300
The destructive path (60 miles wide and 300 miles long), where Sherman led Union troops to burn and destroy everything held dear in the South
Answer
Jeopardy

30. Answer Event- 300
What is Sherman’s “March to the Sea”
Jeopardy

31. Event- 400
Murdered Lincoln while he was watching a play at Ford’s Theatre.
Answer
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32. Answer Event- 400
Who was John Wilkes Booth
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33. Event - 500
The disagreement between northern and southern states regarding states rights and slavery led to this
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34. Answer Event- 500
What is the Civil War
Jeopardy

35. Vocabulary - 100
A general rise in prices
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36. Answer Vocabulary - 100
What is inflation
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37. Vocabulary - 200
First part of the North’s Anaconda Plan they accomplished
Answer
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38. Vocabulary Answer - 200
What is a blockade
Jeopardy

39. Vocabulary - 300
To give someone freedom
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40. Vocabulary Answer - 300
What is emancipate
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41. Vocabulary - 400 The town where Lee surrendered to Grant answer
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42. Vocabulary Answer - 400
Where is Appomattox
Jeopardy

43. Vocabulary
Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
Answer
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44. Vocabulary Answer - 500
What is habeas corpus
Jeopardy

45. Miscellaneous- 100
One of the last cities on the Mississippi River to remain in Confederate hands
Answer
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46. Misc. Answer - 100
What was Vicksburg
Jeopardy

47. Miscellaneous - 200
This is what was learned after the first battle at Bull Run
Answer
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48. Answer- m- 200
What was that the North and the South realized that the war would be a long hard struggle
Jeopardy

49. Miscellaneous-300
This Northern general is well known for his “March to the Sea” in the later part of the war.
Answer
Jeopardy

50. Answer- m 300
Who was William Sherman
Jeopardy

51. Miscellaneous- 400
This adjective would best describe the surrender terms that Grant offered Lee in Appomattox
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52. Answer- m 400
What is generous
Jeopardy

53. Miscellaneous- 500
The Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in this part of the United States
Answer
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54. Answer m- 500
What were the areas fighting against the Union or “Still in Rebellion”
Jeopardy

55. Final Jeopardy Discuss the role of African Americans in the Civil War.
In what ways was their fate tied to the outcome?
How did they contribute to the war?
Support your ideas with examples from the
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56. Answer to Final Jeopardy
This might be an essay on the test tomorrow.
I think I would spend a little time looking that up and come to class with a good idea about how to answer this.