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Jeopardy YearsPresidents American Revolution ConstitutionCourt Cases Colonial Leaders 100 200 300 400 500 Round Two
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Years-100 Jamestown was settled in this year. What is 1607? BACK
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Years-200 The Civil War was fought in these years. What is 1861 to 1865? BACK
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Years-300 This was the year the colonies declared independence from Great Britain. What is 1776? BACK
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Years-400 The Louisiana Purchase was made in this year. What is 1803? BACK
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Years-500 This is the year the Constitution was written. What is 1787? BACK
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Presidents-100 This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Who is Abraham Lincoln? BACK
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Presidents-200 This president set many precedents for future presidents. Who is George Washington? BACK
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Presidents-300 This president protected Latin America. Who is James Monroe? BACK
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Presidents-400 This president was in office during the War of 1812 and he is considered the “Father of the Constitution?” Who is James Madison? BACK
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Presidents-500 This president was a supporter of states’ rights. Who is Thomas Jefferson? BACK
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American Revolution-100 This battle is considered the turning point of the war because the Patriot victory resulted in the French joining the American cause. What is the Battle of Saratoga? BACK
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American Revolution-200 This was the final battle of the Revolution. What is the Battle of Yorktown? BACK
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American Revolution-300 This man was one of the founders of the Sons of Liberty. Who is Sam Adams? BACK
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American Revolution-400 This person was a naval hero that said, “I have not yet begun to fight.” Who is John Paul Jones? BACK
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American Revolution-500 This famous French general helped the Americans at the final battle of the Revolution. Who is Marquis de LaFayette? BACK
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Constitution-100 These 3 branches of government show separation of powers. What are executive, legislative, and judicial branches? BACK
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Constitution-200 The presidential veto is an example of this constitutional principle. What is checks and balances? BACK
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Constitution-300 This is the city in which the Constitution was written. What is Philadelphia? BACK
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Constitution-400 This term describes a government in which people have the final authority in political decisions. What is popular sovereignty? BACK
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Constitution-500 This term describes a type of government in which the power is divided between national and state governments. What is federalism? BACK
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Court Cases-100 In this court case, a slave fought for his freedom. What is Dred Scott v. Sanford? BACK
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Court Cases-200 This court case established the power of judicial review. What is Marbury v. Madison? BACK
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Court Cases-300 This court case established the power of the national government over the states. What is McCulloch v. Maryland? BACK
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Court Cases-400 This Chief Justice of the Supreme Court gave more power to the judicial branch with the power of judicial review. Who is John Marshall? BACK
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Court Cases-500 This court case established the national government’s power to regulate commerce. What is Gibbons v. Ogden? BACK
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Colonial Leaders-100 This leader established Pennsylvania. Who is William Penn? BACK
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Colonial Leaders-200 This person saved Jamestown. Who is John Smith? BACK
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Colonial Leaders-300 This man said “Give me liberty or give me death.” Who is Patrick Henry? BACK
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Colonial Leaders-400 This person created the Albany Plan of Union. Who is Benjamin Franklin? BACK
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Colonial Leaders-500 This man’s pamphlet encouraged the colonies to break free from Great Britain. Who is Thomas Paine? BACK
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Jeopardy! Reform Movements Civil WarAmendments Age of Jackson Early Republic Potpourri 100 200 300 400 500 Round Three
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Reform Movements-100 Quakers, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass were all early reformers in this movement. What is the abolitionist movement? BACK
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Reform Movements-200 This woman advocated for women’s rights and helped to organize the Seneca Falls convention. Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton? BACK
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Reform Movements-300 As a transcendentalist, he wrote Walden Pond and Civil Disobedience, suggesting people be self-reliant and follow their own conscience. Who is Henry David Thoreau? BACK
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Reform Movements-400 This religious movement led to the more reform movements. What is the Second Great Awakening? BACK
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Reform Movements-500 People joined this reform movement because they thought alcohol contributed to poverty and crime. What is the temperance movement? BACK
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Civil War-100 This person was the president of the Confederacy. Who is Jefferson Davis? BACK
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Civil War-200 This freed the slaves in the Confederacy. What is the Emancipation Proclamation? BACK
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Civil War-300 This person left the U.S. Army to join the Confederate army to be the commander. Who is Robert E. Lee? BACK
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Civil War-400 This speech was delivered at the dedication of a national cemetery. What is the Gettysburg Address? BACK
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Civil War-500 This person became famous during the Civil War and later became the 18 th president. Who is Ulysses Grant? BACK
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Amendments-100 These amendments delayed ratification of the Constitution until they were added in 1791. What are amendments 1-10? What is the Bill of Rights? BACK
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Amendments-200 This amendment gives all Americans the right to bear arms. What is the 2 nd amendment? BACK
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Amendments-300 This amendment freed all slaves. What is the 13 th amendment? BACK
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Amendments-400 The 15 th amendment offered suffrage to this group of Americans. What are males? BACK
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Amendments-500 This amendment defines citizenship. What is the 14 th amendment? BACK
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The Age of Jackson-100 This act forced many Native Americans to leave their homes and re-settle in the Indian Territory. What is the Indian Removal Act? BACK
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The Age of Jackson-200 This refers to Jackson’s action of giving political offices to political backers. What is the spoils system? BACK
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The Age of Jackson-300 This man debated for the preservation of the Union and against nullification against Robert Hayne. Who is Daniel Webster? BACK
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The Age of Jackson-400 This man led opposition to the Tariff of 1828 in South Carolina. Who is John C. Calhoun? BACK
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The Age of Jackson-500 This refers to when South Carolina threatened to secede over high protective tariffs. What is the Nullification Crisis? BACK
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Early Republic-100 This president appointed John Jay as the first Supreme court justice. Who George Washington? BACK
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Early Republic-200 Alexander Hamilton helped to write these papers in order to convince others to ratify the Constitution. What are the Federalist Papers? BACK
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Early Republic-300 This statement of foreign policy proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs in the western hemisphere. What is the Monroe Doctrine? BACK
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Early Republic-400 This man was known as the “Great Compromiser.” Who is Henry Clay? BACK
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Early Republic-500 These were the first five presidents. Who are Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe? BACK
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Potpourri-100 Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are considered to be this type of right. What is an unalienable right? BACK
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Potpourri-200 This man refused to sign the Constitution because it did not have a Bill of Rights. Who is George Mason? BACK
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Potpourri-300 This law provided a systematic way to allow new states into the Union. What is the Northwest Ordinance? BACK
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Potpourri-400 Founding Fathers exhibited this quality when they took an active role in improving their community. What is civic virtue? BACK
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Potpourri-500 This is a person who is of foreign birth who is granted full citizenship. What is a naturalized citizen? BACK
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Jeopardy! Reform Vocabulary Civil War Vocabulary Constitution Vocabulary New Nation Vocabulary Westward Vocabulary Potpourri 100 200 300 400 500 Final Jeopardy
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Reform Vocabulary-100 Things that make a person want to leave their home country. What are push factors? BACK
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Reform Vocabulary-200 The act of freeing people from slavery. What is emancipation? BACK
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Reform Vocabulary-300 The right to vote. What is suffrage? BACK
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Reform Vocabulary-400 An attitude of superiority and resentment towards immigrants and foreign people. What is nativism? BACK
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Reform Vocabulary-500 The large-scale introduction of manufacturing, advanced technical enterprises, and other economic activity into an area What is industrialization? BACK
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Civil War Vocabulary-100 An agreement in which both sides in an argument agree to give up something they want to get something else. What is compromise? BACK
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Civil War Vocabulary-200 A person who believed in the ending of slavery. What is an abolitionist? BACK
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Civil War Vocabulary-300 The act of withdrawing or leaving an alliance; like southern states leaving the Union. What is secession? BACK
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Civil War Vocabulary-400 Slave-owning states that did not secede from the Union. What are border states? BACK
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Civil War Vocabulary-500 The selection of citizens for mandatory military service? What is draft or conscription? BACK
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Constitution Vocabulary- 100 To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office What is impeachment? BACK
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Constitution Vocabulary- 200 Powers both the states and the government shared together.. What are concurrent powers? BACK
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Constitution Vocabulary- 300 Process by which an amendment is approved. What is ratification? BACK
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Constitution Vocabulary- 400 The rights that are guaranteed by the Constitution to all people as citizens, especially equality under the law. What are civil rights? BACK
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Constitution Vocabulary- 500 Power retained by the states, including power to establish schools, set marriage and divorce laws, and regulation of trade within borders. What are reserved powers? BACK
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The New Nation Vocabulary-100 Inferring the meaning of the Constitution by reading ‘between the lines’. What is implied powers? BACK
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The New Nation Vocabulary-200 The economic system in the U.S. that includes economic choice, profit motive, and limited government regulation of the economy. What is free-enterprise system? BACK
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The New Nation Vocabulary-300 Guidelines or actions for dealing with issues with other countries. What is foreign policy? BACK
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The New Nation Vocabulary-400 A policy of not dealing with other countries; only taking care of your own country. What is isolationism? BACK
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The New Nation Vocabulary-500 A system where power is shared between the national and state governments. What is federalism? BACK
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Westward Vocabulary-100 Related to or having to do with rural farming areas. What is agrarian? BACK
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Westward Vocabulary-200 Belief that it was America’s right and duty to spread across the North American continent. What is manifest destiny? BACK
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Westward Vocabulary-300 The people, mostly young men, who joined the gold rush in California. Who are the forty-niners? BACK
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Westward Vocabulary-400 A person who is among those first to enter or settle a region, opening it occupation/ What is a pioneer? BACK
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Westward Vocabulary-500 To yield or transfer to another by treaty or surrender by force. What is cede or cession? BACK
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Potpourri-100 Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are considered to be this type of right. What is an unalienable right? BACK
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Potpourri-200 Free and equal participation in a government where power is in the people and exercised by them indirectly through the election of representatives. What is democratic? BACK
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Potpourri-300 The act of gaining something, like land. What is acquisition? BACK
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Potpourri-400 Money or a bribe paid to offer ‘protection’ What is tribute? BACK
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Potpourri-500 The work of keeping a good relationships with other countries. What is diplomacy? BACK
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