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Pre-Civil War

Jeopardy

Some Examples

• This person teaches 7th grade Language Arts at

Anthem School.

– Who is Mrs. Sprague?

• This has 13 stripes and 50 stars.

– What is the American flag?

• This team lost to the Colts yesterday and is no

longer undefeated.

– Who are the Denver Broncos?

Politics

$100

• This is how slave-owners viewed their

slaves.

• What is property?

Politics

$200

• This candidate became president in

1860.

• Who was Abraham Lincoln?

Politics

$300

• Stephen A. Douglas & Abraham

Lincoln debated this issue while

running to become senator from

Illinois in 1858.

• What is the expansion of slavery?

Politics

$400

• Stephen A. Douglas believed this

was the best way to solve slavery.

• What is popular sovereignty?

Politics

$500

Daily Double!!

You may bet up to $2000You may not pass &

will lose your bet if incorrect

• Popular sovereignty & protecting

slavery divided these two political

parties during the presidential election

of 1860.

• What are Northern & Southern Democrats?

N & S

$100

• This is feeling more loyal to your

region of the country instead of the

nation as a whole.

• What is sectionalism?

N & S

$200

• This region of the country was

sectionalist before the Civil War.

• What is the South?

N & S

$300

• The North & South agreed on this

before the Civil War.

• What is nothing?

N & S

$400

• This section of the country traded heavily with Europe. In order to survive, it depended on slaves, cotton, and low tariffs.

• What is the South?

N & S

$500

• The words immigrants,

manufacturing, industry, and trade

best describe this section’s economy.

• What is the North?

Compromises

$100

• Compromises were created to solve

this issue before the Civil War.

• What is slavery?

Compromises

$200

• After the Missouri Compromise there

were the same number of free states &

slave states. These three words

describe this effect.

• What is balance of power?

Compromises

$300

• This state became free because of the Compromise of 1850.

• What is California?

Compromises

$400

• This law helped slave-owners

recapture their runaways &

encouraged the South to agree to the

Compromise of 1850.

• What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

Compromises

$500

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act used these

two words to decide slavery in

territories.

• What is popular sovereignty?

Abolitionists & the Underground Railroad

$100

• These people tried to help end

slavery. They were sometimes

conductors on the Underground

Railroad.

• Who are abolitionists?


$200

• This was a series of safehouses

slaves used to escape from the South

to the North.

• What is the Underground Railroad?


$300

• Southerners claimed this popular Northern book, published in 1852, falsely criticized the South and slavery.

• What was Uncle Tom’s Cabin?


$400

• This is why John Brown raided

Harpers Ferry in 1859.

• What is inspire slaves to fight for

their freedom or start slave

revolt/rebellion?


$500

• This Supreme Court case stated the

Constitution protected slavery & implied

African-Americans were not US

citizens.

• What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?

Politics

$800

• This candidate did not believe slavery

should be abolished. However, he

thought slavery should be limited to

where it already existed and not be

expanded.

• Who was Abraham Lincoln?

Politics

$1000

• After Abraham Lincoln became president

in 1860 7 southern states seceded. They

gave these two reasons for their action.

• What are states’ rights & thinking Lincoln

would abolish slavery?

N & S

$800

• These divided the nation because trading for European goods cost more cotton than before.

• What are protective tariffs?

N & S

$1000

• Southerners viewed John Brown as a

traitor after he raided Harpers Ferry in

1859. Abolitionists saw him as this.

• What is a hero or martyr?

Compromises

$800

Daily Double!!



• A mini-Civil War started in Kansas over

slavery after this happened. So much blood

was shed the territory came to be known as

“Bleeding Kansas”.

• What is 5,000 Missourians illegally voted?

Compromises

$1000

Daily Double!!



• According to the Fugitive Slave Act, anyone

helping slaves escape could be fined or jailed.

These punishments created this moral

dilemma for Northerners.

• What is obey the law & support slavery or

break the law & oppose slavery?


$800

• These told slaves about the Underground

Railroad. “Follow the Drinking Gourd” was

code for slaves to follow the Big Dipper

North to freedom.

• What are spirituals?


$1000

• A slave traveling on the Underground Railroad

knew a safe house was nearby if he/she saw a

white man grasping his ear as they passed each

other, a hitching post shaped like a slave

holding a lantern, a lantern in the window, or

received one of these.

• What are secret handshakes?

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