1. Period V-pub style trivia
Questions will be given and reviewed in groups of 10
Highest score wins
Four Categories
Border Bedlam, Pick your President/Party, Laws and Effect

2. Border Bedlam

3. Q.1
The Mexican American war was instigated in part to achieve the Texan border at what river?

4. Q.2
This land was purchased in order to build a Southern Continental Railroad…it never actually gets used though

5. Q.3
This treaty ended the Mexican American was and granted the US land in California, New Mexico, as well as parts of Colorado and Utah.

6. Q.4
The borders of this country were opened for trade by the US Navy (lead by Commodore Mathew Perry)

7. Q5
The “borders” were opened between the US and what two countries who contributed the most to US immigration during this time?

8. Q 6
True or False migration to Oregon preceded its annexation as a state

9. Q7
This 3rd Party ran as a coalition of Democratic and Whig forces who opposed the spread of slavery into territory gained from Mexico

10. Q8
What court cased called into question the usefulness of boundaries in determining the status of free vs. enslaved.

11. Q9
Bedlam is an apt word to describe the situation in Kansas in the 1850’s as disputed elections led to two rival governments located in what cities.

12. Q10
Name 3 states that seceded prior to Lincolns call for troops

13. A.1
The Rio Grande

14. A.2
The Gadsden Purchase

15. A3
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

16. A4
Japan

17. A 5
Ireland and Germany

18. A 6
True- Friendly relationships with Britain who also claimed the land allowed for peaceful settlement prior to resolving the territorial issues

19. A7
Free Soil Party

20. A8
Dred Scott vs. Sanford

21. A9
Lecompton and Topeka

22. A10

23. Pick your President/Party

24. Q.1 1844-1848 Responsible for Annexing Oregon Annexing Texas
The Mexican American War
Annexing the entire Southwest

25. Q. 2
1848 – 1850
Mexican American War Hero known as “Old Rough and Ready” sought to block Henry Clay’s Compromise for political reasons, however he failed due to his own death.
Coincidentally will be the last Whig president elected.

26. Q 3
As nativist sentiment became more pronounced in the 1840s and 50s the “_________________” party enjoyed considerable success in both the North and the South

27. Q4
This party formed in 1854 in strong opposition to the Kansas- Nebraska act, in 1856 they ran their first presidential candidate _____________

28. Q5
Give the name/party of both presidents that preceded the Civil War

29. Q6
This event occurring in multiple iterations in 1858 elevated the national discourse on popular sovereignty and Dred Scott. As well as making one politician a national rather than local figure.

30. Q7
During the Civil War pro-peace Northern Democrats were known by what pejorative name?

31. Q8
Initially an opponent of the planter elite, this president will later prove to be an ally during his phase of Reconstruction

32. Q9
Corruption plagued both Northern Government and Southern Reconstruction governments and under the 1870s administration it became so prevalent it began to be known by what presidential sounding moniker

33. Q10
This political offshoot, overtook National Politics in 1877 by promoting free trade, the gold standard, and ending reconstruction politics.

34. A.1
James K Polk

35. A. 2
Zachary Taylor

36. A4
Know Nothing Party

37. A4
The Republican Party, John C Fremont

38. A4
Franklin Pierce – Dem
James Buchanan – Dem

39. A. 6
Lincoln-Douglas debates

40. A7
Copperheads

41. A8
Andrew Johnson

42. A9
“Grantism”

43. A10
Liberal Republicans

44. Laws and Effect

45. Q1
The most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850, and one of the few provisions that specifically benefited the South

46. Q2
A popular “What if” in history concerns the ____________ Compromise; which would have extended the Missouri Compromise to the Pacific and offered a constitutional amendment to protect slavery in the South.

47. Q3
This act established that paper money printed by the union during the Civil War would be accepted at any publicly owned institution

48. Q4
The Laws that built up to the Emancipation Proclamation

49. Q5
Name a law to be veto’d by Andrew Johnson, and that was later override

50. Q6
Laws put in place under Presidential Reconstruction to try and subjugate Freedmen

51. Q7
The Law that Andrew Johnson violated that resulted in his impeachment

52. Q8
Initially too radical for the majority of the Republican Party this amendment guaranteed protection from voting discrimination on the basis of race

53. Q9
U.S Grant bowed to pressure from the Liberal Republican in passing this bill that re-restored rights to former confederates

54. Q10
This court case weakened the enforcement acts by saying that military courts should not be used to try civilians if there are civilian courts open

55. A1
Fugitive Slave Act

56. A2
Crittenden Compromise

57. A3
Legal Tender Act

58. A4
Confiscation Acts

59. A5 Supplementary Freedmen’s Bureau Civil Rights Act of 1866
Reconstruction Act of 1867

60. A6
Black Codes

61. A7
Tenure of Office Act

62. A8
15th Amendment

63. A9
The Amnesty Acts

64. A10
Ex parte Milligan