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Topic 1: 200• Question:• This amendment defined citizenship in the

United States• Answer• The Fourteenth Amendment

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Topic 1: 400• Question:• His plan’s for Reconstruction were pretty

lenient, except on Confederate officers. • Answer• Andrew Johnson

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Topic 1: 600• Question:• This bill, passed in 1867, divided the former

Confederate states into five military zones• Answer• The Reconstruction Act of 1867

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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

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Topic 1: 1000• Question:• Most historians agree that this event was the

end of Reconstruction• Answer• The Compromise of 1877

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Topic 2: 200• Question:• In 1820, this act established a line on the 36th

parallel deciding which states would be free and which would be slave states.

• Answer• The Missouri Compromise

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Topic 2: 400• Question:• He escaped slavery to become one of the

most prominent abolitionist activists in the nineteenth century

• Answer• Frederick Douglass

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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”

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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

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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

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Topic 3: 200• Question:• The majority of immigrants in the first half of

the nineteenth century came from Germany and this country.

• Answer• Ireland

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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

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Topic 3: 600• Question:• This invention, created by Eli Whitney, had a

profound impact on the Southern economy• Answer• The cotton gin

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Topic 3: 800• Question:• Most immigrants who came from Ireland

practiced this religion, which enraged many “Native” Americans.

• Answer• Catholicism

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Topic 3: 1000• Question:• The Industrial Revolution, in England and the

United States, began in this industry• Answer• The textile industry

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Topic 4: 200• Question:• The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, sought

to promote this type of reform• Answer• Women’s Rights

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Topic 4: 400• Question:• She was a reformer for prisons and insane

asylums in the 1840s.• Answer• Dorothea Dix

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Topic 4: 600• Question:• Horace Mann attempted to reform this part of

American society.• Answer• Education

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

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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

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Topic 5: 200• Question:• This battle was the single bloodiest day of the

Civil War• Answer• Antietam

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Topic 5: 400• Question:• The capture of this fort by the South started

the Civil War• Answer• Fort Sumter

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Topic 5: 600• Question:• The two major Union victories that occurred in

July 1863, were the Battle of Gettysburg and this battle.

• Answer• Vicksburg

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Topic 5: 800• Question:• This was the first state to secede from the

Union in 1860. • Answer• South Carolina

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Topic 5: 1000• Question:• This former Union general ran against

Abraham Lincoln in 1864.• Answer• George McClellan

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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.

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