Unit 4 Jeopardy

Freedom?

100

What is the term for being more loyal to your home region or state rather than the USA as a whole?

Sectionalism

200

What state was created to be a free state to balance out Missouri entering as a slave state in the Missouri Compromise?

Maine

300

The Kansas-Nebraska Act said that voters in those states would get to decide if they were free or slave states. What is the term for this method of choosing?

Popular sovereignty

400

What is the name of the deal that let California be admitted as a free state, ended the slave trade in DC, but created a stronger law to recapture fugitive slaves?

Compromise of 1850

500

What political party was founded in opposition to slavery, especially in the Kansas-Nebraska territories?

Republican Party

Famous Figures

100

Who won the election of 1860 for president?

Abraham Lincoln

200

This general was in charge of the main Confederate amy

Robert E. Lee

300

What was the pre-Civil War Supreme Court case that ruled that a Black man who was moved to a free state was not in fact free and was not a citizen?

Dred Scott v. Sanford

400

This abolitionist led a raid at Harper's Ferry to try and start a slave revolution. It did not work but it galvanized the American public.

John Brown

500

This general ultimately got put in charge of the Union army and won the war for the North. He later became president.

Ulysses S. Grant

Battles and Blunders

100

This fort was shot at and captured by the South. It marked the first shots of the Civil War.

Fort Sumter

200

This battle took place in Maryland and saw the Union army repel the southern attempt to invade.

Antietam

300

This battle took place in Pennsylvania and was a decisive northern victory that helped turn the tide of the war. More Americans died in this battle than in the Vietnam War.

Gettysburg

400

This famous march through the South featured a strategy of total war where cities like Atlanta, farms, and factories were deliberately destroyed by Union forces to eliminate the South's ability to supply its army.

Sherman's march to the sea

500

This plan was designed to choke off the south like a constricting snake by blockading it, taking the Mississippi River, and cutting off supplies from overseas.

Anaconda Plan

Legally Speaking

100

This amendment abolished slavery in ALL states

13th Amendment

200

This order came from the president acting as commander in chief. It declared all enslaved people in the Confederacy, but not border states, to be free.

Emancipation Procalamation

300

This amendment gave all people "born or naturalized" in the US citizenship and equal rights. It was passed to override the Black Codes.

14th Amendment

400

This amendment granted all Black men the right to vote.

15th Amendment.

500

This set of laws was an attempt by white southerners right after the war to put recently freed people back into a state of borderline slavery.

Black Codes

Reconstruction

100

This is the term for when poor Black farmers rented land and paid with a portion of their crop. It often led to a cycle of debt and poverty.

Sharecropping

200

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were designed to do what?

Keep Black men from voting

300

This government agency built schools and provided emergency support to recently freed people in the South

Freedmen's Bureau

400

What was the Supreme Court case that declared that segregation was allowed if "separate but equal" facilities like schools and bathrooms were provided for Black citizens?

Plessy v. Ferguson

500

What did Rutherford B. Hayes promise the South in exchange for their support for his presidential candidacy in the Compromise of 1877?

He would withdraw Union troops from the South who were protecting Black citizens