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Double Jeopardy

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Ms. Jensen

3. Jeopardy
The Texas Revolution
Oregon Country
Native Americans
Go West Young Man
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4. This was the first battle of the Texas Revolution.

5. What is the Battle of Gonzales?

6. The provisional government of the Republic of Texas named this man as Commander-in-Chief of the Texas forces.
A 200

7. Who was Sam Houston?
A 200

8. This Tennessee backwoodsman and former Congressman lost his life at the Alamo.

9. Who was Davy Crockett?
A 300

10. It was said of them that “they fought more like devils then like men” here.

11. What was the Alamo?
A 400

12. Santa Anna was captured here.

13. What was San Jacinto?
A 500

14. They were among the first settlers in Oregon after the fur traders/mountain men.
B 100

15. Who were missionaries (the Whitmans and Spauldings)?
B 100

16. These four countries originally laid claim to Oregon Country.
B 200

17. Who/What are Russia, Spain, England and the United States?
B 200

18. This meant that people from both Great Britain and America could settle in Oregon Country.

19. What is “joint occupation”?
B 300

20. This was the staging area or jumping off point of the first large-scale migration to the Oregon Territory.
B 400

21. What is Independence, MO?
B 400

22. Great Britain and the United States resolved the Oregon issue by settling the boundary between them at this line.
B 500

23. What is the 49th parallel (line of latitude)?
B 500

24. They often were converted to Catholicism and worked here.

25. What are in the missions?
C 100

26. An attempt to incorporate the best of the Native American world and the white man’s world.

27. What is “Cultural Accommodation”?

28. He created the Cherokee language.

29. Who was Sequoia?
C 300

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C 400

31. This was the forced march of the Cherokee and other Indian tribes west.

32. What is the Trail of Tears?
C 400

33. This was the affect of Trans-Appalachian migration on the Native Americans.

34. What is that they were forced onto less desirable land?

35. This was a busy trade route to the capital of New Mexico.

36. What is the Santa Fe Trail?
D 100

37. This is how you got to you Portland, OR.

38. What is the Overland Trail or the Oregon Trail?

39. These were also called Calistogas or Prairie Schooners.

40. What are covered wagons?

41. They helped the pioneers find their way when going over the mountain passes.

42. Who were the mountain men?
D 400

43. This meant that the United States’ borders went from sea to shining sea.

44. What is “Manifest Destiny”?

45. This is the reason the United States did not annex Texas immediately after it won it’s independence from Mexico.
E 100

46. What is that the US did not want a war with Mexico and did not want to upset the free/slave balance in Congress.
E 100

47. Americans wanted this Mexican territory because it provided access to the Pacific.

48. What is California?
E 200

49. With this purchase, the present day borders of the United States were set.

50. What is the Gadsden Purchase?

51. Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home were called this.

52. Who were Tejanos?
E 400

53. He was the first vice president to become president because the elected president died in office.

54. Who was John Tyler?
E 500

55. This was the court case that declared Cherokee land sovereign and laws of the US are not binding there upon.
F 100

56. What was Worchester vs Georgia?
F 100

57. The discovery of this on Cherokee land was the beginning of the end.

58. What was gold?
F 200

59. The phrase to come out of the gold fields that meant you were part of something extrodinary

60. What is “I’ve seen the elephant”?
F 300

61. This is the state moto for California.

62. What is “Eureke”?
F 400

63. Although the National Bird of New Zealand, it is also indigenous to Australia

64. What is the Kiwi?
F 500

65. The Final Jeopardy Category is: Acts of Congress
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This act allowed the President to use the United States military to enforce acts of Congress.
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What is the Force Bill?
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