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Civil War (Part 1)

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Final Jeopardy

What was Andrew Jackson’s

nickname?

Category1 | Q for 100

Category1 | A for 100

Old Hickory

Category1 | Q for 200

What did Jackson call the outcome of the

Election of 1824?

Category1 | A for 200

A “corrupt bargain”

Category1 | Q for 300

Who was Jackson’s Vice President (from

South Carolina)?

Category1 | A for 300

John C. Calhoun

Category1 | Q for 400

System for rewarding supporters by giving

them government jobs was known as the ___.

Category1 | A for 400

spoils system

Category1 | Q for 500

Jackson closed it because he said it was only for the

wealthy

Category1 | A for 500

Bank of the United States

Category2 | Q for 100

What portion of the U.S. was

added in 1803?

Category2 | A for 100

Louisiana Purchase

Category2 | Q for 200

What portion of the U.S. was

added in 1845?

Category2 | A for 200

Texas

Category2 | Q for 300

What portion of the U.S. was

added in 1848?

Category2 | A for 300

Mexican Cession

Category2 | Q for 400

What portion of the U.S. was

added in 1853?

Category2 | A for 400

Gadsden Purchase

Category2 | Q for 500

The belief that the U.S. was destined to expand

throughout the continent was ___.

Category2 | A for 500

Manifest Destiny

Category3 | Q for 100

California is added as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act is

enacted

Category3 | A for 100

Compromise of 1850

Category3 | Q for 200

Support and loyalty to a certain region of a country is known as

___.

Category3 | A for 200

Sectionalism

Category3 | Q for 300

Attempt by South Carolina to declare federal tariffs void

was known as the ___.

Category3 | A for 300

Nullification Crisis

Category3 | Q for 400

Supreme Court case which declared slaves

were property

Category3 | A for 400

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Category3 | Q for 500

The little woman who wrote the

bestseller about the evils of slavery

Category3 | A for 500

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Category4 | Q for 100

The first shots of the Civil War

were fired here

Category4 | A for 100

Fort Sumter, SC

Category4 | Q for 200

Commanding General of the

Confederate Army

Category4 | A for 200

Robert E. Lee

Category4 | Q for 300

Turning point of the Civil War

Category4 | A for 300

Battle of Gettysburg

Category4 | Q for 400

17 September 1862 was the bloodiest day

of the war at this battle

Category4 | A for 400

Antietam

Category4 | Q for 500

Lincoln issued this on 1 January 1863,

changing the goal of the war for the Union

Category4 | A for 500

Emancipation Proclamation

Category5 | Q for 100

President of the United States during

the Civil War

Category5 | A for 100

Abraham Lincoln

Category5 | Q for 200

Amendments 13, 14, and 15 are known as the…

Category5 | A for 200

Civil War Amendments--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Remember: “Free citizens vote!”--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Amendment 13: Slavery abolishedAmendment 14: Citizenship

Amendment 15: Right to Vote

Category5 | Q for 300

This July 1863 Union victory cut the

Confederacy in half

Category5 | A for 300

Vicksburg

Category5 | Q for 400

Assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater on

14 April 1865

Category5 | A for 400

John Wilkes Booth

Category5 | Q for 500

Where Lee met Grant to surrender

on 9 April 1865

Category5 | A for 500

Appomattox Court House, Virginia

Final Jeopardy Question

How did both sides view slavery during

the Civil War?

Final Jeopardy Answer

North viewed it as North viewed it as a moral issue.a moral issue.

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South viewed it as South viewed it as an economic issue.an economic issue.