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4. Final Jeopardy
Round 1
Round 2
Jo-Jo
Sweet Lily
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5. Definitions
Civil War
Reconstruction
Miscellaneous
Compromises
Causes of War
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Final Jeopardy
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6. $100 The purpose of the Missouri Compromise was to
return slaves captured in free states to slave
states.
b. allow slavery in Maine but not in Missouri.
maintain a balance of slave states and free
d. let Missouri have slavery until 1850.
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7. maintain a balance of slave states and free states.
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maintain a balance of slave states and free states.
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8. $200 What was the “Georgia Platform?”
It was a statement supporting states’ rights
It was a statement supporting popular
sovereignty
c. It was a statement supporting the
Compromise of 1850
d. It was a statement supporting slavery
throughout the United States
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9. c. It was a statement supporting the Compromise of 1850
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c. It was a statement supporting the
Compromise of 1850
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10. $300 Allowing the New Mexico and Nevada
territories to vote on whether they wanted to
be free or slave territories is a concept known as
A. sectionalism
B. nullification
C. abolition
D. popular sovereignty
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D. popular sovereignty
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12. $400 Place the events below in chronological order.
I. Election of Abraham Lincoln
II. Missouri Compromise
III. Southern Secession
IV. Compromise of 1850
a. I - II - IV - III
b. I - IV - III - II
c. II - IV - I- III
d. IV - III - II - I

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II, IV, I, III
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14. $500
What was the one thing the Compromise of did NOT do?
A. abolished slave trading in the District of Columbia
B. admitted Kansas as a free state
C. admitted California as a free state
D. created a fugitive slave law

15. B. admitted Kansas as a free state
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B. admitted Kansas as a free state
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Which of the following would NOT be a major cause of the Civil War?
A. Slavery
B. Assassination of President Lincoln
C. States’ Rights
D. Southern Secession from the Union

17. B. Assassination of President Lincoln
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B. Assassination of President Lincoln
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18. $200
What Supreme Court case determined that slaves were not U.S. citizens, and therefore could not sue in U.S. courts; in other words, slaves were considered property with no constitutional rights?
A. Brown v. Board of Education
B. Plessy v Ferguson
C. Dred Scott v. Sanford
D. Worcester v. Georgia

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C. Dred Scott v. Sanford
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20. $300
What event in 1860 triggered almost immediate secession by five southern states because they feared slavery would become abolished?
A. Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
B. The Fugitive Slave Act was passed, requiring the return of escaped slaves.
C. The Missouri Compromise made Missouri a new slave state and Maine a new free state.
D. John Brown raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, trying to start a slave rebellion.

21. A. Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
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A. Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
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23. $400
At the start of the nineteenth century, the North and the South started to grow apart. Which of the following factors contributed to this growing division which ultimately led the South to secede from the Union? A. economic differences between the North and South; agriculture vs industrial economy B. political differences; belief in states' rights vs. a strong national government C. cultural differences; justifications for or against the institution of slavery D. all of the above

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d. All of the above
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25. $500
Congress helped Northern manufacturers compete against British factory owners by passing a tariff that would raise prices on items bought from other countries. How did the South react?
A. South Carolina threatened to secede stating that states had the right to nullify (or not accept) a federal law.
B. South Carolina left the Union and other states soon followed.
C. South Carolina became a free state.
D. All of the above

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A. South Carolina threatened to secede stating that states had the right to nullify (or not accept) a federal law.
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27. $100
What Union war strategy involved using a naval blockade around Southern port cities in order to restrict southern exports such as cotton to European countries while also limiting supplies from being shipped in to assist the confederate army?
A. Atlanta Campaign
B. King Cotton Diplomacy
C. Union Blockade of Georgia’s Coast
D. Sherman’s March to the Sea

28. C. Union Blockade of Georgia’s Coast
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C. Union Blockade of Georgia’s Coast
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29. $200 What was the name of the military prison site
in Georgia that was built to hold 10,000
people but held over 45,000 Union prisoners,
of which 13,000 died from disease, starvation,
and horrible living conditions before the end
of the Civil War?
A. Gettysburg
B. Vicksburg
C. Antietam
D. Andersonville
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a. Andersonville
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31. $300
Why was Atlanta a major target during the Civil War during General Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign?
A. The South depended on its railroads and industries.
B. Atlanta was a port city for the Confederate navy.
It was the capital of the Confederacy
It was the boyhood home of Gen. Robert E. Lee.

32. A. The South depended on its railroads and industries.
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A. The South depended on its railroads and industries.
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33. $400
What did President Lincoln do after the Union's success at the Battle of Antietam?
A. He declared the war was over and the North had won.
B. He signed the Emancipation Proclamation that made all slaves in rebellious Confederate states free.
C. He stated that slaves everywhere were free.
D. He allowed the South back into the Union.

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B. He signed the Emancipation Proclamation that made all slaves in rebellious Confederate states free.
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35. $500 Place the events below in chronological order.
I. Sherman’s March to the Sea
II. Emancipation Proclamation
III. Atlanta Campaign
IV. Battle of Chickamauga
A. I - II - III - IV
B. I - IV - III - II
C. II - IV - III - I
D. IV - III - II - I

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C. II - IV - III - I
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Which organization did the federal government create in 1865 to supervise the transition of slaves to freedom by providing food, clothing, job contracts, and the building of schools?
A. Howard University
B. American Civil Liberties Union
C. Freedmen's Bureau
D. Ku Klux Klan

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C. Freedmen's Bureau
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Who were unfairly denied their seats in the Georgia state legislature by white politicians on the grounds that they had the right to vote, but not hold political office?
a. Alexander Stephens and Jefferson Davis
b. Southern Democrats
c. Henry McNeal Turner and other black legislators.
d. Former Confederate officers.

40. c. Henry McNeal Turner and other black legislators.
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c. Henry McNeal Turner and other black legislators.
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41. $300
Landowners who allowed people (mostly freed slaves and poor whites) with no land to grow crops on their land for a share of those crops was a practice known as
A. the Freedmen’s Bureau
B. crop rotation
C. sharecropping
D. subsistence farming

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C. sharecropping
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What was the ultimate impact of sharecropping and tenant farming on freed black people in the South after the Civil War?
A. It allowed the majority of black people to climb out of poverty.
B. It kept most black people impoverished and in debt to white landowners.
C. It forced white landowners to sell off most of their land to black farmers.
D. It allowed black farmers to buy land and gave them long-term security.

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B. It kept most black people impoverished and in debt to white landowners.
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Which group of people believed that both Abraham Lincoln & Andrew Johnson were too lenient in their reconstruction policies toward the South and instead wanted Congress to take control and lead Reconstruction?
A. Radical Republicans
B. The Ku Klux Klan
C. Southern Democrats
D. Wealthy plantation owners

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A. Radical Republicans
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47. $100
States’ Rights can BEST be defined as the belief that states
a. could not free their slaves.
b. could leave the Union at any time if they chose to.
c. could ignore national or federal laws if they were harmful to the state.
d. could join the Union anytime they wanted to.

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c. could ignore national or federal laws if they were harmful to the state.
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Most southern planters and people feared that abolition would end their way of life both economically and culturally. This was the main reason for
A. Emancipation
B. Industrialization
C. Secession
D. Nullification

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C. Secession
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The early 1800s belief that a state could refuse to enforce a federal law was known as
a. Absolution
b. Emancipation
c. Nullification
d. Ratification

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c. Nullification
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53. $400 Which term and definition are correctly matched?
A. abolitionism — a belief in slavery
B. emancipation — the process of freeing a slave
C. nullification — terms that end a war
D. popular sovereignty — the right of elected officials to select a president

54. B. emancipation — the process of freeing a slave
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B. emancipation — the process of freeing a slave
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55. $500
Granting citizenship to African Americans in 1868 after slavery was abolished was the purpose of the
A. 13th Amendment
B. 14th Amendment
C. 15th Amendment
D. Emancipation Proclamation

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B. 14th Amendment
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57. $100 Someone who supports the statement,
“The national government has no right to tell states how to operate.” MOST LIKELY would believe in
a. Emancipation
b. States’ rights
c. Federal laws
d. National tariffs

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b. States’ Rights
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59. $200 Someone who supports the statement,
“The national government has no right to tell states how to operate.” MOST LIKELY would believe in
a. Emancipation
b. States’ rights
c. Federal laws
d. National tariffs

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b. States’ rights
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61. $300
Alexander Stephens, a US Representative from Georgia, can be described as someone who
a. wanted Georgia to withdraw from the Union.
b. wanted to abolish slavery in Georgia.
c. did not want Georgia to secede from the Union.
d. did not want Southern Democrats in power.

62. c. did not want Georgia to secede from the Union.
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c. did not want Georgia to secede from the Union.
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63. $400
After Sherman secured Atlanta, he began his march to the sea toward Savannah. Sherman waged a total war against Georgia which included all of the following actions EXCEPT:
A. He tore up rail lines
B. He destroyed all homes and buildings in any area, whether owners put up a resistance or not
C. He destroyed crops
D. He waged war against everything that supported the Confederacy

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B. He destroyed all homes and buildings in any area, whether owners put up a resistance or not
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65. $500
What was the purpose of the Black Codes in the South after the Civil War?
A. The codes were used to ease the difficult economic times after the war.
B. The codes were passed to enforce laws that controlled the Ku Klux Klan.
C. Radical Republicans felt the codes were necessary to protect former slaves.
D. Southern political leaders used the codes to restrict the rights of former slaves.

66. $500
D. Southern political leaders used the codes to restrict the rights of former slaves.
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67. Final Jeopary Question
Jeopardy
What do you remember?
Final Jeopary Question
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68. All of the following groups of people were targets of the Ku Klux Klan EXCEPT:
a. Carpetbaggers: northern whites who came to the South to create businesses.
b. Democrats: southerners who were opposed to congressional reconstruction policies
c. Freedmen: blacks who gained citizenship and voting rights
d. Scalawags: southern whites who sympathized with blacks and voted for the Republican party

69. b. Democrats: southerners who were opposed to congressional reconstruction policies
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