Transcript US History Midterm EOC Jeopardy Review

Jeopardy
Antebellum
Civil War
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
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Gilded Age
$100 Question from Antebellum
A system in which the residents
vote to decide an issue
$100 Answer from Antebellum
What is popular sovereignty?
$200 Question from Antebellum
A system of routes along which
runaway slaves were helped to
escape to Canada or to safe areas
$200 Answer from Antebellum
What is the Underground Railroad?
$300 Question from Antebellum
A law enacted as part of the
Compromise of 1850, designed to
ensure that escaped slaves are
returned
$300 Answer from Antebellum
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
$400 Question from Antebellum
The formal withdrawal of a state
from the Union
$400 Answer from Antebellum
What is secession?
$500 Question from Antebellum
President Lincoln’s primary
goal when he was elected
President in 1860
$500 Answer from Antebellum
What is preserving the Union?
$100 Question from Civil War
A three part strategy by which the
Union proposed to defeat the
Confederacy during the Civil War
$100 Answer from Civil War
What is the Anaconda Plan?
$200 Question from Civil War
An executive order issued by
Lincoln freeing the slaves in all
regions behind Confederate lines
$200 Answer from Civil War
What is the Emancipation
Proclamation?
$300 Question from Civil War
The most immediate result of
Abraham Lincoln’s election of
the presidency in 1860
$300 Answer from Civil War
What is several Southern States
seceding from the Union?
$400 Question from Civil War
Reasons for Southern States to
secede from the Union
$400 Answer from Civil War
What are states rights, having
the decision of whether to keep
slavery or not, and thought that
Lincoln was going to abolish
slavery?
$500 Question from Civil War
The institution of slavery was
Formally abolished in the
United States by this amendment
$500 Answer from Civil War
What is the 13th Amendment?
$100 Question from
Reconstruction
All persons born in the US
(including former slaves) were
citizens of the country and
guaranteed equal protection
$100 Answer from
Reconstruction
What is the 14th Amendment?
$200 Question from
Reconstruction
The period of rebuilding that
followed the Civil War
$200 Answer from
Reconstruction
What is Reconstruction?
$300 Question from
Reconstruction
Allowed Hayes to become
President and ended
Reconstruction
$300 Answer from
Reconstruction
What is the Compromise of 1877?
$400 Question from
Reconstruction
Prohibits the denial of voting rights
to people because of their race or
color or because of previous
servitude
$400 Answer from
Reconstruction
What is the 15th Amendment?
$500 Question from
Reconstruction
Discriminatory laws passed
Throughout the post Civil War
South which severely limited
freedmen
$500 Answer from
Reconstruction
What are Black Codes?
$100 Question from
Reconstruction
The passage of Jim Crow laws in the
South limited the effectiveness
of these amendments
$100 Answer from
Reconstruction
What are the 14th & 15th
Amendments?
$200 Question from
Reconstruction
Ten years following the Civil War,
a large number of former slaves
earned a living by doing this
$200 Answer from
Reconstruction
What is sharecropping?
$300 Question from
Reconstruction
The name of President Lincoln’s
Reconstruction plan
$300 Answer from
Reconstruction
What is the 10% Plan?
$400 Question from
Reconstruction
Congressmen who advocated full
Citizenship rights for African
Americans along with a harsh
Reconstruction policy toward the
South
$400 Answer from
Reconstruction
Who are the Radical Republicans?
$500 Question from
Reconstruction
President Johnson was
impeached for this
$500 Answer from
Reconstruction
What is the firing of Secretary of
War Edwin Stanton?
$100 Question from Gilded Age
Term coined by Mark Twain to
describe the façade of prosperity
$100 Answer from Gilded Age
What is the Gilded Age?
$200 Question from Gilded Age
This person was the political boss
of New York City’s Tammany Hall
$200 Answer from Gilded Age
Who is William Marcy Tweed
(Boss Tweed)?
$300 Question from Gilded Age
This term best defines a person
who used ruthless/cutthroat
business tactics to make millions
$300 Answer from Gilded Age
What is a robber baron?
$400 Question from Gilded Age
The illegal use of political
Influence for personal gain
$400 Answer from Gilded Age
What is graft?
$500 Question from Gilded Age
Interstate Commerce Act and the
Sherman Antitrust Act were
attempts by Congress to…
$500 Answer from Gilded Age
What is regulate the activities
of big business?