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Final Jeopardy Question
200

Invention led to an increase in the production of cotton

Cotton Gin

200

This evented sparked the beginning of the Civil War

Battle of Fort Sumter

200

What does popular sovereignty mean?

People living there vote for or against slavery

200

He sued for his freedom, but it was determined that just because he lived in free territory, this did not make him free. 

Dred Scott

400

Invention allowed for much faster communication using electric signals

Telegraph

400

This is how 7 states responded to the Election of 1860.

Seceded from the Union

400

What political party was created to stop the spread of slavery?

Republican Party

400
Escaped slavery, went on to give anti-slavery speeches, wrote anti-slavery books about his experiences, and used his most powerful tool, his voice, to change Americans viewpoints about the slavery issue. 

Frederick Douglas

600

The two forms of improved transportation in the early 1800s

Steam Boat and Steam Locomotive (Train)

600

These series of 7 events focused on the slavery issue propelled one unknown lawyer to national fame, event though he would go on to lose the election. 

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

600

The first state to leave the United States in 1860

South Carolina

600

According to Lincoln, she was the "lady that wrote that book that started this whole war". 

Harriet Beecher Stowe

800

Increased efficiency of harvesting, leading to many farm laborers going to factories looking for work

Mechanical Reaper

800

This was an attempt to start an armed rebellion in the South, hoping that giving enslaved people weapons would lead to the end of slavery. 

John Brown's Raid (or Nat Turner's Rebellion, I suppose)

800
Name 2 ways that enslaved people resisted slavery.

Work slow, break equipment, run away, fight back

800
In the Vietnam War, an American prisoner of war blinked while on camera using this man's code to send a secret message to Americans about the actions of the people who imprisoned him.  

Samuel Morse (Morse Code)

1000

The first major invention that started the Industrial Revolution in Great Britian

Spinning Jenny

1000

This event pushed 7 states over the edge, believing that their voice is government was now gone. 

Election of 1860 (Abraham Lincoln)

1000

The percentage of people in the South that owned 20+ slaves (Planter class). 

3%

1000

His simple invention, the steel plow, would propel him into creating the largest agricultural machinery company in the world. 

John Deere

1000

Explain what caused the United States to go to Civil War using specific evidence from 3 different "Dominos" and describe how they are connected. 

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