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Final Jeopardy

2. 1 - $100 The amendment that abolished slavery
What is the 13th amendment?

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The amendment that granted civil rights to African Americans – in theory
What is the 14th amendment?

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The amendment that helped spark the women’s liberation movement as it gave voting rights to African American men
What is the 15th amendment?

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This amendment gave women the right to vote 50 years after the voting rights extended to all races.
What is the 19th amendment?

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This is the name given to the first ten amendments giving rights such as the right to bear arms
What is the Bill of Rights?

7. 2 - $100 The names of the two sides of the Civil War
What is The North (Union) and the South (Confederacy)?

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In 1863 this freed the slaves in the Confederacy although Lincoln had no right to do so
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

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The years of the war that killed more Americans than any other
What is ?

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The famous general from the Confederacy
Who is Robert E Lee?

11. 2 - $500 2 reasons other than slavery for the Civil War What is:
The South’s desire to keep a strong state government, not a federal one
Economic differences
Cultural differences ?

12. 3 - $100 The year of the American Declaration of Independence
What is 1776?

13. 3 - $200 These acts lead to the Declaration of Independence
What are the Sugar Act, Stamp Act and the Intolerable Acts?

14. 3 - $300 The first president of the United States of America
Who is George Washington?

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This event that killed several people and angered the colonists, but feels misnamed, happened in 1770
What is the Boston Massacre?

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Known as the Great Compromise, this was the method for counting slaves determined during the Constitutional Convention
What is three fifths?

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Coined by a newspaper editor, this phrase means “obvious fate” and is frequently used to justify this period of US history
What is Manifest Destiny?

18. 4 - $200 This land deal in 1803 doubled the size of the US
What is the Louisiana Purchase?

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President Polk engaged in this conflict primarily to obtain California and New Mexico for the young nation
What is the Mexican- American War?

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An agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise?

21. 4 - $500 The declaration in 1823 known as the Monroe Doctrine
What is the declaration made by President Monroe that the Western Hemisphere was no longer open to European colonization ?

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This man was leader of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s and delivered the famous ‘I Have A Dream’ speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?

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In 1896 this landmark case determined that separate can be equal and legal
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?

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In 1954, this landmark case determined that “separate is inherently unequal” changing the course of the Civil Rights movement
What is Brown vs. The Board of Education?

25. 5 - $400 This group works for equal rights and was established in 1909
What is the NAACP?

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Assassinated in 1965, this man is seen as the face of the Black Power movement and the shift from peaceful protest to militant action
What is Malcolm X?

27. Final Jeopardy
A slave rebellion that took place in 1831 in Virginia that killed over 50 people
What is Nat Turner’s Revolt?