USI.9a
Issues that divided the nation
USI.9b,c
Attempts to Compromise. Union, Confederate, and Border States
USI.9d
Key People
USI.9e
Key Battles/Events
USI.9f
100

Much of America's economy revolved around this institution. 

What is slavery?

100

DOUBLE POINTS

You MUST get BOTH questions correct in order to receive 200 points. If you only get one then you get 100 points and the other team can take the other question. 

1. Name the state that was created after it refused to secede with Virginia.

2. Explain the difference between the Confederate and Border States.

1. What is West Virginia?

2. What are Confederate States: Slave states that left the Union 

Border States: Slave states that stayed loyal to the Union?

100

Name the person who won the 1860 election which caused Southern states to secede.

Who was Abraham Lincoln?

100

This was the first attack by the Confederacy which began the Civil War. 

What is Fort Sumter?

100

This was the major killer during the Civil War. 

What is disease?

200

Tension and violence in Kansas over slavery led to this nickname.

What is "Bleeding Kansas"?

200

Name the compromise that best completes the list below:

1. _________?__________

2. Compromise of 1850

3. Kansas-Nebraska Act

What is the Missouri Compromise (1820)?

200

Name the person who was the only president of the Confederate States of America. 

Who was Jefferson Davis?

200

This was the first major land battle and resulted in a Confederate win. 

What is the First Battle of Bull Run (aka Manassas)?

200

True or False: African Americans were paid less than white soldiers and were often under the leadership of white men.

What is True?

300

Identify the following issue as Cultural, Slavery, or Political:Reform grew in the North, fed by the Second Great Awakening, aspirations of social movement, and activist women.

What are Cultural issues?


300

Decide which statement about the Fugitive Slave Act is TRUE:

  • Was popular with abolitionists because it helped end slavery
  • Was popular with former slaves because it promised their freedom
  • Was popular with Northern states because it increased the slave labor their industrial economy needed
  • Was popular with Southern states because it increased the slave labor their agricultural economy needed

What is "Was popular with Southern states because it increased the slave labor their agricultural economy needed"?

300
Name the person who was the general of the Union army that defeated Lee. 

Who was Ulysses S. Grant?

300

DOUBLE POINTS!!! Answer both questions correctly to get double the points. If you only get one question correct then you still get 300 points (instead of 600) and the other team can try to steal. 

1. Name the document which made ending slavery the focus of the War.

2. Name the document which stated the Civil War was the ultimate test for democratic government. 

1. What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

2. What is the Gettysburg Address?

300

Women were left to run ___________ in the North and ___________ in the South.

What are businesses and plantations?

400

Identify the following issue as Constitutional, Economic, or Political: A major conflict was states' rights versus strong central government.

What are Constitutional issues?

400

Name the following component that was NOT included in the Compromise of 1850

  • California entered the Union as a free state
  • The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed
  • The slave trade in Washington D.C. was banned
  • Missouri entered the Union as a slave state

What is "Missouri entered the Union as a slave state"?

400

Name the former enslaved African American who promoted equality in the Civil War and created the United States Colored Troops. 

Who was Frederick Douglass?

400

You must get BOTH questions correct to earn points. 

1. This battle secured Union control of the Mississippi River, allowing the North to divide the South.

2. This battle is commonly known as the turning point of the war

1. What is the Battle of Vicksburg?

2. What is the Battle of Gettysburg?

400

This was happened to Confederate money at the end of the Civil War.

What is it became worthless?

500

Decide which of the following statements about the North and South prior to the Civil War are TRUE.

  • Slavery was illegal in the North
  • The Northern economy was industrial and the Southern economy was agricultural
  • Both regions profited from slavery
  • All of the above

What is "All of the above"?

500

When people voted directly on the issue of slavery in their state, it was called: 

  • Special election
  • Compromise
  • Popular sovereignty
  • Initiative

What is "popular sovereignty"?

500

Name the woman who created the American Red Cross.

Name the two women who worked as Union spies. 

Who was Clara Barton?

Who was Mary Bowser and Elizabeth Van Lew?

500

This person surrendered to Grant at this location. 

You must name both to get any points!

Who is Lee at Appomattox Court House?

500

Lincoln sought to reconstruct the nation by bringing Southern states back into the Union after _________ percent of voters accepted the end of slavery. 

What is 10?

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