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Jeopardy
Civil War/Reconstruction
Q1
Q6
Q 11
Q 16
Q 21
Q2
Q7
Q 12
Q 17
Q 22
Q3
Q8
Q 13
Q 18
Q 23
Q4
Q9
Q 14
Q 19
Q 24
Q5
Q 10
Q 15
Q 20
Q 25
Final Jeopardy
Question 1
This man was the general of the
Union army that defeated Lee.
Answer 1
Who was --Ulysses S. Grant?
Question 2
Identify Robert E. Lee.
Answer 2
Who was 1. the leader of the Army
of Northern Virginia
2. offered command of the
Union forces at the beginning of the war but
chose not to fight against Virginia
3. opposed secession, but did not
believe the union should be held together
by force
4. urged Southerners to accept defeat
at the end of the war and reunite as
Americans ?
Question 3
Identify Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
Answer 3
Who was --a skilled Confederate
general from Virginia ?
Question 4
This man was a former slave who
escaped to the North and became
an abolitionist.
Answer 4
Who was --Frederick Douglas ?
Question 5
The first shots of the Civil War
were fired here.
Answer 5
Where was --Fort Sumter ?
Question 6
This was the first major battle
of the Civil War.
Answer 6
What was --the first Battle of
Manassas (Bull Run) ?
Question 7
This made freeing the slaves the
focus of the war.
Answer 7
What was --the Emancipation
Proclamation ?
Question 8
This was the result of the
Battle of Vicksburg.
Answer 8
What was --divided the South; the
North controlled the Mississippi
River ?
Question 9
This was the turning point
of the war.
Answer 9
What was --the Battle of Gettysburg;
the North repelled Lee’s invasion ?
Question 10
This event ended the Civil War.
Answer 10
What was --Lee’s surrender to
Grant at Appomattox Court
House in 1865 ?
Question 11
Name four major deciding factors
in winning the Civil War.
Answer 11
What were 1. the Union blockade of
southern ports
2. control of the Mississippi River
3. battle locations influenced by the
struggle to capture capital cities
4. control of the high ground ?
Question 12
Identify seven effects of the Civil
War.
Answer 12
What are
1. families & friends were
often pitted against one another
2. Southern troops became increasingly younger
& more poorly equipped & clothed
3. much of the South devastated at end of war
4. disease a major killer
5. combat brutal & often man-to-man
6. women left to run businesses in North
& farms/plantations in South
7. collapse of Confederacy made Confederate
money worthless ?
Question 13
The woman who created the
American Red Cross.
Answer 13
Who was --Clara Barton ?
Question 14
Identify the five effects the Civil
War had on African Americans.
Answer 14
What are 1. fought in both Union &
Confederate armies
2. Confederacy used slaves as
naval crew members & soldiers
3. Union enlisted them as sailors
early in the war
4. paid less than white soldiers
5. discriminated against and served
in segregated units under the
command of white officers ?
Question 15
Identify Robert Smalls.
Answer 15
Who was --an African American
sailor and later a Union naval
captain who was highly honored for
his feats of bravery and heroism and
became a Congressman after the
Civil War ?
Question 16
This 13th Amendment does this.
Answer 16
What is --bans slavery in the
United States and any of its
territories ?
Question 17
The
this.
th
14 Amendment
does
Answer 17
What is --grants citizenship to all
persons born in the United States
and guarantees them equal protection
under the law ?
Question 18
The
th
15 Amendment
does this.
Answer 18
What is --ensures all citizens the
right to vote regardless of race
or color or previous condition
or servitude ?
Question 19
Identify the Reconstruction
policies for the South.
Answer 19
What were 1. Southern military leaders could
not hold office
2. African Americans held public office
3. African Americans gained equal rights as a
result of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which
authorized use of federal troops to enforce it
4. Northern soldiers supervised the South ?
Question 20
This was the major problem
after the Civil War.
Answer 20
What was --Southerners resented
northern “carpetbaggers” who took
advantage of the South during
Reconstruction ?
Question 21
Explain the Civil Rights Act
of 1866.
Answer 21
What was --African Americans
gained equal rights and federal
troops were authorized to enforce
the law ?
Question 22
This man was a skilled Confederate
general from Virginia.
Answer 22
Who was --Thomas “Stonewall”
Jackson ?
Question 23
At this battle, the North repelled
Lee’s invasion, marking the
turning point of the war.
Answer 23
What was --the Battle of Gettysburg?
Question 24
This Civil War nurse created the
American Red Cross.
Answer 24
Who was --Clara Barton ?
Question 25
These Amendments guarantee
equal protection under the law
for all citizens.
Answer 25
th
13 ,
What are --the
Amendments ?
th
14 ,
&
th
15
Final Jeopardy
Identify six important ideas/events
about Abraham Lincoln.
Final Jeopardy Answer
What are 1. was President of the U.S.
2. opposed the spread of slavery
3. issued Emancipation Proclamation
4. determined to preserve the Union
5. believed the U. S. was one nation,
not a collection of independent states
6. wrote the Gettysburg address ?