3. The Democracy Pyramid

4. Game Rules Teams divided into groups One partner has their back to the TV Other partner faces them while looking at the TV When the answer is given on the TV the sender begins giving clues PASS if you don’t know that answer There are 7 questions per round We will be playing 3 rounds Team with the highest total moves onto the Final Round

5. Each team must now choose their first two contestants. First group step up to the front, other groups step outside.

6. Round 1

7. Stamp Act

8. Intolerable Acts

9. Articles of Confederation

10. Great Compromise

11. Thomas Paine

12. 5th Amendment

13. Compromise of 1850

14. Answers

15. Placed a tax on goods imported from Britain

16. Prompted the colonies to assemble the First Continental Congress

17. Set up a Congress in which each state had 1 vote; weak central government

18. Set up a 2-house legislature; 1 house had = representation, 1 house was based on population

19. Wrote Common Sense, urging the colonies to separate from Great Britain

20. 5th amendment in Bill of Rights; allows people to avoid self- incrimination, double jeopardy. Need due process of law. Eminent domain.

21. Allowed CA to be admitted as a free state, stricter fugitive slave laws, popular sovereignty for new territories

22. Now two NEW contestants from each group

23. Round 2

24. Popular sovereignty

25. Dred Scott decision

26. Emancipation Proclamation

27. Free Soilers

28. 15th Amendment

29. Sharecroppers

30. Harriet Tubman

31. Round 2 Answers

32. Allowed residents of the territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed in a territory

33. Declared the being in a free territory did not make a slave free.

34. Abolished slavery in the North

35. Northerners who wanted to keep slavery out of the territories but did not have positive feelings toward African Americans

36. Stated that no citizen may be denied the right to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

37. Farmers who agreed to give most of their harvest to the landowners in exchange for use of the land, seeds, & tools

38. Helped over 300 slaves safely flee th South by using a system known as the Underground Railroad

39. Round 3

41. Jefferson Davis

42. Fugitive Slave Act

43. Confederacy

44. Kansas Nebraska Act

45. Harriet Beecher Stowe

46. Eminent Domain

47. Checks & Balances

48. Round 3 Answers

49. President of the Confederacy

50. Defined slaves as property

51. Southern states seceeded from the Union

52. Divided the Nebraska Territory

53. Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, using a moral argument against slavery

54. Allows the government to take private property for public use with just compensation

55. The system that maintains the separation of powers among the three branches of the federal government

56. Winner’s Circle

57. Your team needs 5 out of 6 to win!!! Choose your 2 contestants

60. Boston Tea Party

61. 100

62. 100

63. Ratification

64. 100150

65. 100150

66. Elastic Clause

67. 100150200

68. 100150200

69. Shay’s Rebellion

70. 450 100150200

71. 450 100150200

72. Electoral College

73. 450600 100150200

74. 450600 100150200

75. 13th Amendment

76. 1000 450600 100150200