Civil War Jeopardy

VOCABULARY

100

This is a phrase coined in 1845, expressed the philosophy that drove 19th-century U.S. territorial expansion.

What is Manifest Destiny

200

This is when people felt greater loyalty to the section the north th falcons or the wells them to the nation as a whole

What is SECTIONALISM

300

This was used in the 19th century to refer to the system of slavery in the southern states of the US

What is PECULIAR INSTITUTION

400

Wanted slavery to end

What is a ABOLITIONIST

500

This is held that the United States was destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.

What is MANIFEST DESTINY

IMPORTANT PEOPLE

100

Decision (1857) supreme Court ruled address Scott, and African-American was not a citizen and had no right to sue in court; the court also ruled that Congress had no right to put for bid slavery in the territories. 

Who is DRED SCOTT

200

Presidential Election of 1860: _________ were divided, helping to Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln to win the election with 39% of the vote.

Who are the DEMOCRATS

300

In 1859 this person was an abolitionist who  attacked the federal arsenal in Virginia, hoping to start up slave revolt throughout the south.

Who is JOHN BROWN

400

The ______________, won its first presidency AND Was opposed to the expansion of slavery.

Who are the REPUBLICAN

500

Broke out against the horrors of slavery. Proslavery apologist in the south argue that slaves were better off than more than factory workers

Who is FREDERICK DOUGLAS

CAUSES 1

100

many Southerners believe states had the right to leave the union if they wish.

What are STATE RIGHTS

200

California admitted as a free state the sale of slaves trading ban  in Washington, DC.

What is the COMPROMISE OF 1850

300

Million orders did not want to see slavery extensor new territories so the new spirit being outnumbered by Free state if slavery did not spread.

What is EXTENSION of slavery

400

an active; popular sovereignty apply to the slavery question in the rest of Mexican Cession.

What is FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT OF 1850

DAILY DOUBLE

500

In (1820) Missouri made it as a slave state and Maine as a free state; slavery prohibited in Louisiana purchase north 36 30 N.

What is the MISSOURI COMPROMISE

CAUSES 2

100

This allowed people in the territories of ________ and _______to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. 

What is the KANSAS - NEBRASKA ACT

200

In September 1862, free all the slaves in states still in rebellion on January 1, 1863. 

What is EXECUTIVE ORDER

300

What word means the freeing of enslaved people?

Emancipation means the freeing of enslaved people.

400

What were states called that allowed slavery before the Civil War?

Slave states were states that permitted slavery before the Civil War.

500

(1855 - 1856) Anti-slavery and pro-slavery settlers violently contestant control of the Kansas territory. 

What is BLEEDING KANSAS

Civil War 5

100

Was Southern states seceding from the Confederacy a major cause of the Civil War?

Yes. Southern states seceding, or leaving, the Confederacy to join the Union, was one of the major causes of the Civil War.

200

What role did women have in the Civil War?

Women played key roles in the Civil War. They helped by working in factories, in businesses, in farm jobs and as nurses for the military. They were even more directly involved by imitating men to become soldiers, becoming doctors and spying for their chosen sides.

300

What battle did the South win?

The Battle of Bull Run was fought in July 1861 in Manassas Junction, VA. The Confederates, or the South, won the Battle of Bull Run.

400

What were states called that would not allow slavery before the Civil War? Free states did not permit slavery before the Civil War.

Free states did not permit slavery before the Civil War.

500

Name two generals during the Civil War and identify which one led the North and which one led the South.

General Lee fought for the Confederacy, or the South and General Grant fought for the Union, or the North.