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2. Your Topic ReconstructionThe Road to War Immigration & Industry ReformThe Civil War 200 400 600 800 1000 Bonus Question: 5000 pts

3. Topic 1: 200 Question: This amendment defined citizenship in the United States Answer The Fourteenth Amendment

4. Topic 1: 400 Question: His plan’s for Reconstruction were pretty lenient, except on Confederate officers. Answer Andrew Johnson

5. Topic 1: 600 Question: This bill, passed in 1867, divided the former Confederate states into five military zones Answer The Reconstruction Act of 1867

6. Topic 1: 800 Question: This agency, set up to provide housing and education to former slaves, was known to have promised “40 acres and a mule” Answer The Freedman’s Bureau

7. Topic 1: 1000 Question: Most historians agree that this event was the end of Reconstruction Answer The Compromise of 1877

8. Topic 2: 200 Question: In 1820, this act established a line on the 36 th parallel deciding which states would be free and which would be slave states. Answer The Missouri Compromise

9. Topic 2: 400 Question: He escaped slavery to become one of the most prominent abolitionist activists in the nineteenth century Answer Frederick Douglass

10. Topic 2: 600 Question: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, established this phrase, which meant the states were able to chose whether or not they wanted slavery. Answer “popular sovereignty”

11. Topic 2: 800 Question: The name given to this event came from a Supreme Court case which claimed that slaves were property, and African Americans were not citizens Answer The Dred Scott Decision

12. Topic 2: 1000 Question: John Brown’s raid occurred in present day West Virginia at this site. (Don’t turn around!) Answer Harper’s Ferry

13. Topic 3: 200 Question: The majority of immigrants in the first half of the nineteenth century came from Germany and this country. Answer Ireland

14. Topic 3: 400 Question: This political party, established in the 1840s, was very anti-immigrant, and were also known as the “Know Nothing Party” Answer The Native American Party

15. Topic 3: 600 Question: This invention, created by Eli Whitney, had a profound impact on the Southern economy Answer The cotton gin

16. Topic 3: 800 Question: Most immigrants who came from Ireland practiced this religion, which enraged many “Native” Americans. Answer Catholicism

17. Topic 3: 1000 Question: The Industrial Revolution, in England and the United States, began in this industry Answer The textile industry

18. Topic 4: 200 Question: The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, sought to promote this type of reform Answer Women’s Rights

19. Topic 4: 400 Question: She was a reformer for prisons and insane asylums in the 1840s. Answer Dorothea Dix

20. Topic 4: 600 Question: Horace Mann attempted to reform this part of American society. Answer Education

21. Topic 4: 800 Question: This movement often argued that slavery benefited all parties who were involved, including the slaves themselves Answer Anti-abolitionist

22. Topic 4: 1000 Question: Identify the document that contains this quote: “We hold these truths to be self- evident that all men and women are created equal.” Answer The Declaration of Sentiments

23. Topic 5: 200 Question: This battle was the single bloodiest day of the Civil War Answer Antietam

24. Topic 5: 400 Question: The capture of this fort by the South started the Civil War Answer Fort Sumter

25. Topic 5: 600 Question: The two major Union victories that occurred in July 1863, were the Battle of Gettysburg and this battle. Answer Vicksburg

26. Topic 5: 800 Question: This was the first state to secede from the Union in 1860. Answer South Carolina

27. Topic 5: 1000 Question: This former Union general ran against Abraham Lincoln in 1864. Answer George McClellan

28. Bonus Question: 5000 pts. Question: The final episode of the miniseries Roots, which exposed the cruelties of slavery, is still the third highest rated television show in history (third most viewers). Name 1 of the 2 that are rated higher! (Hint: 1 of them is about war) Answer … The final episode of MASH and the “Who shot J.R. episode?”’ of Dallas

29. The Winner Of The Last Round Write Down How Much Money You Are Willing To Risk If You get the Question write you win that money If you get it wrong you Loss the money!

30. The Winner Of The Last Round Write Down How Much Money You Are Willing To Risk If You get the Question write you win that money If you get it wrong you Loss the money!