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Civil War Jeopardy
African
Reconstruction
Battles
Slavery
People
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Americans
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BATTLES for 100
• The commander of the Union
troops.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
BATTLES for 200
• The battle to gain control of
the Mississippi River.
• What is the Battle of
Vicksburg?
Who won the battle?
*The Union Army
Why was control of the
Mississippi River important?
* Easy to transport people and goods
BATTLES for 300
• The battle that was considered
the turning point of the war.
• What is the Battle of
Gettysburg? Why was it the turning point?
Repelled the Lee’s second invasion of the
North
BATTLES for 400
• Result of the First Battle of
Bull Run.
• What is the battle that made
people (including Lincoln) realize it
would be a much longer war than
they had thought?
BATTLES for 500
• Region where most of the battles
took place.
What is the South?
BATTLES for 600
• Battle that General Jackson
received the nickname of
Stonewall.
• What is the First Battle of
Bull Run?
Why?
Him and his troops stood
their ground.
AFRICAN AMERICANS for 100
• The wage for African Americans
soldiers fighting for the Union.
• What is less than White
soldiers?
AFRICAN AMERICANS for 200
• Way enslaved African
Americans participated in the
Union Army.
• What is spying?
AFRICAN AMERICANS for 300
• 3 Ways African Americans
participated in the Union
Army.
• What are:
-cooks
-soldiers
-hospital aids
-wagon drivers
AFRICAN AMERICANS for 400
• Agreement that allowed
Maine to be a free state and
Missouri a slave state.
• What is the Missouri
Why did did this
Compromise? agreement need to be
reached?
To have an equal amount
of free and slave states.
AFRICAN AMERICANS for 500
• Case that made it illegal for
Congress to prohibit slavery.
• What is the Dred Scott
Why was this decision made?
case?
Because Supreme Court ruled that slaves
were the property of the slave owner and the
slave owner could not be deprived of his
property.
AFRICAN AMERICANS for 600
• The goal of the Republican
Party when it was first formed.
• What is to stop the expansion
of slavery into western
territories?
SLAVERY for 100
• Reason Britain would not
support the South.
• What is the Emancipation
Proclamation? Why?
Because the war then became
very much about slavery and
they could not support slavery.
SLAVERY for 200
• Act that forced the North to
return slaves that escaped to the
North.
• What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
What compromise was it a part of?
Compromise of 1850
**What other things were involved in
the Compromise of 1850?
SLAVERY for 300
• Places that were affected by the
Emancipation Proclamation.
• What are the areas fighting the
Union?
NOT the border states that had slavery but were not
rebelling
SLAVERY for 400
• The reason Lincoln resisted
identifying slavery as an
issue in the Civil War.
• What is the secession of the
border states.
SLAVERY for 500
• Reason Kansas was called
Bleeding Kansas.
• What is violence over the people
in Kansas deciding if the state
should be a slave or free state ?
What is the ability of the people to
decide the slavery question for their
state called?
Popular sovereignty
SLAVERY for 600
• The Act that undid the
Missouri Compromise.
• What is the KansasNebraska Act? What did that Act do?
Allowed for popular sovereignty (instead of
a line deciding if a state would be free or
slave, the people were allowed to decide)
RECONSTRUCTION for 100
• The Reconstruction Plan that
established the Freedmen
Bureau.
• What is Lincoln’s
Reconstruction Plan?
What is the Freedmen Bureau?
Established to aid former slaves
in education, health care and employment.
RECONSTRUCTION for 200
• The Reconstruction Plan that
mandated ratification of the
th
13 Amendment.
• What is Johnson’s
Reconstruction Plan?
RECONSTRUCTION for 300
• Reason Lincoln was called the
Great Emancipator.
• What is he pushed the
passage of the 13th
Amendment?
RECONSTRUCTION for 400
• Amendment that officially
abolished slavery.
• The 13th Amendment ?
RECONSTRUCTION for 500
• Amendment that overruled
the Dred Scott Decision.
• What is the 14th
Amendment?
What does it say?
Gives a broad definition of citizenship (which before had excluded
descendants of slaves from being citizens)
and requires states to provide equal protection under the law to all people
RECONSTRUCTION for 600
• Amendment that prohibits the
government from denying any
citizen the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
PEOPLE for 100
• Person who started a hospital
and put together field hospitals
during the Civil War.
• Who is Clara Barton?
PEOPLE for 200
• Person who was a Civil War
photographer.
• Who is Mathew Brady?
PEOPLE for 300
• An abolitionist who was
hanged for treason.
• Who is John Brown?
Why was he hanged?
Led violent insurrections to as a means to
end slavery (in Kansas and at Harper’s
Ferry in West Virginia)
PEOPLE for 400
• The author of Uncle Tom’s
Cabin.
• Who is Harriet Beecher
Stowe? Why was the book so important?
Sold many copies and helped fuel abolitionist mo
Changed peoples’ attitudes towards slavery.
**Did create some stereotypes though
PEOPLE for 500
• Person who assassinated
President Lincoln.
• Who is John Wilkes Booth?
What year?
1865
PEOPLE for 600
• The President of the
Confederacy.
• Who is Jefferson Davis?
OTHER for 100
• 2 hardships of a Civil War
soldier.
• What are
-lack of clean water
-starvation in POW camps
-long days of training
-threat of small pox
OTHER for 200
• 2 advantages of the North during
the Civil War.
• What are
-Resources
-Communication
-More people
-Better transportation
OTHER for 300
• 2 advantages of the South
during the Civil War.
• What are
-fought on own soil (familiar land)
-Experienced leadership
-Help from locals
-Defending their way of life and their land
OTHER for 400
• The first state to secede from
the Union.
• What is South Carolina?
OTHER for 500
• The commander of the
Confederate troops.
• Who is Robert E. Lee?
OTHER for 600
• A way that Southern women
were more affected by the Civil
War than Northern Women.
• What is
-defending a way of life
-seeing violence near their home/on
their land (for the North, the
violence was far away)