Round 1 Ultimate Question Round 2 Lincolns Grants

Round 1 Ultimate Question Round 2 Lincolns Grants Lees

Abolitionism Sectionalism Supreme Court Economics Civil War Reconstruction $100 $100 $200 $200 $300 $300 $400 $400 $500 $500

$100 This former slave was the most important black abolitionist; he sought to use the political system to end slavery. Scoreboard Answer

$100 Who is Frederick Douglass? Scoreboard

$200 This radical abolitionist founded The Liberator and argued that the North should secede from the “wicked South. ” Scoreboard Answer

$200 Who is William Lloyd Garrison? Scoreboard

$300 This Boston patrician was known as “abolitionism’s Golden Trumpet. ” Scoreboard Answer

$300 Who is Wendell Phillips? Scoreboard

$400 This law was put into effect between 1836 and 1844 in response to abolitionist talk in Congress. Scoreboard Answer

$400 What is the Gag Resolution? Scoreboard

$500 This organization, founded in 1817, sought to send free blacks to West Africa. Scoreboard Answer

$500 What is the American Colonization Society? Scoreboard

$100 Perhaps the most important cause of the Civil War, this 1854 law repealed the 36° 30’ line. Scoreboard Answer

$100 What is the Kansas. Nebraska Act? Scoreboard

$200 This 1848 proposed law freaked out Southerners because it sought to ban slavery in the Mexican Cession. Scoreboard Answer

$200 What is the Wilmot Proviso? Proviso Scoreboard

$300 This “transportation” movement was particularly reviled by the South since it deliberately violated the Fugitive Slave Law. Scoreboard Answer

$300 What is the Underground Railroad? Scoreboard

$400 Although seen as a convenient solution to the expansion of slavery in the West, this principle resulted in “Bloody Kansas. ” Scoreboard Answer

$400 What is Popular Sovereignty? Scoreboard

$500 This senator was nearly beaten to death in 1857 due to a fiery speech against the slave-holding South. Scoreboard Answer

$500 Who is Charles Sumner? Scoreboard

$100 In 1857, Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled in this case that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. Scoreboard Answer

$100 What is the Dred Scott case? Scoreboard

$200 This 1842 Supreme Court decision ruled that Northern states could not prevent slaves from being returned to their masters. Scoreboard Answer

$200 What is Prigg v. Pennsylvania? Scoreboard

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$300 Lincoln ignored this 1861 Supreme Court decision by concerning habeas corpus for a pro-Confederate sympathizer. Scoreboard Answer

$300 What is Ex Parte Merryman? Scoreboard

$400 This 1866 decision weakened the presidency by ruling that a citizen cannot be tried in a military tribunal if a civilian court is nearby. Scoreboard Answer

$400 What is Ex Parte Milligan? Scoreboard

$500 This 1859 Supreme Court decision upheld the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Scoreboard Answer

$500 What is Ableman v. Booth (1859)? Scoreboard

$100 Henry Clay would have been happy with this 1862 law that created a financial institution larger than the first two combined! Scoreboard Answer

$100 What is the National Banking Act? Scoreboard

$200 This 1862 law paved the way for the completion of a transcontinental railroad. Scoreboard Answer

$200 What is the Pacific Railway Act? Scoreboard

$300 If you were willing to move out West, the government would give. you land for free as a result of this act. Scoreboard Answer

$300 What is the Homestead Act (1862)? Scoreboard

$400 This was the new currency of the Civil War: Chase put his mug on the $1 bill. Scoreboard Answer

$400 Scoreboard What is a Greenback?

$500 This 1861 act raised customs duties significantly to pay for the costs of the war. Scoreboard Answer

$500 What is the Morrill Tariff? Scoreboard

$100 This violent incident represented the beginning of the Civil War. Scoreboard Answer

$100 What is the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter? Scoreboard

$200 This Union “victory” in September, 1862 opened the door for Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Scoreboard Answer

$200 What is the Battle of Antietam? Scoreboard

$300 This July, 1863 battle was the bloodiest of the war and was the military turning point of the war. Scoreboard Answer

$300 What is Gettysburg? Scoreboard

$400 This July 21, 1861 engagement was the first major land battle of the Civil War. Scoreboard Answer

$400 What is First Bull Run (Manassas)? (Manassas) Scoreboard

$500 The Union’s 1863 victory in this siege gave the Union total control of the Mississippi River. Scoreboard Answer

$500 What is Vicksburg? Scoreboard

$100 These planter-inspired laws in the South sought to return the freedmen to as close a condition of slavery as possible while guaranteeing the labor supply. Scoreboard Answer

$100 What are the Black Codes? Scoreboard

$200 This 1867 act resulted in martial law in the South and divided it into 5 military districts. Scoreboard Answer

$200 What is the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867? Scoreboard

$300 This Constitutional Amendment gave African Americans the right to vote. Scoreboard Answer

$300 What is the Fifteenth Amendment? Scoreboard

$400 This was Lincoln’s plan to bring the southern states back into the Union when the war was over. Scoreboard Answer

$400 What is the 10% Plan? Scoreboard

$500 The southern states were forced to ratify this amendment before they were finally readmitted into the Union. Scoreboard Answer

$500 What is the Fourteenth Amendment? Scoreboard

Post. Reconstruction Persuasion Which South? Violence Politics Grab Bag $200 $200 $400 $400 $600 $600 $800 $800 $1000 $1000

$200 These post. Reconstruction laws sought to segregate blacks from white society. Scoreboard Answer

$200 What are “Jim Crow” Laws? Scoreboard

$400 This Harvard-educated African American demanded immediate political equality for blacks and co-founded the NAACP. Scoreboard Answer

$400 Who is W. E. B. Du Bois? Scoreboard

$600 This 1896 Supreme Court decision stated “separate but equal” was constitutional. Scoreboard Answer

$600 What is Plessy v. Ferguson? Scoreboard

$800 This African American leader advocated “accommodation” in order to focus on black economic development. Scoreboard Answer

$800 Who is Booker T. Washington? Scoreboard

$1000 These laws were the most effective in disenfranchising blacks, even more than poll taxes and literacy tests. Scoreboard Answer

$1000 What are “grandfather clauses? ” Scoreboard

$200 This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe highlighted the evils of slavery and became a best-seller. Scoreboard Answer

$200 What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin? Scoreboard

$400 This “mountain white” writer claimed in The Impending Crisis of the South, that slavery was bad for poor southern whites. Scoreboard Answer

$400 Who is Hinton Helper? Helper Scoreboard

$600 This politician stated in 1858 that “A House Divided Cannot Stand. ” Scoreboard Answer

$600 Who is Abraham Lincoln? Scoreboard

$800 Daniel Webster convinced Northerners to compromise in 1850 as a result of this speech. Scoreboard Answer

$800 th 7 What is the of March Speech? Scoreboard

$1000 This southern pro-slavery apologist claimed that northern workers were “wage slaves” while southern slaves were happy and cared for. Scoreboard Answer

$1000 Who is George Fitzhugh? Scoreboard

$200 This southern sub-region remained loyal to the Union throughout the Civil War. Scoreboard Answer

$200 What is the Border South? Scoreboard

$400 This southern sub-region had the highest percentage of its population consisting of slaves. Scoreboard Answer

$400 What is the Lower South? Scoreboard

$600 Two states in this southern sub-region were the last to abolish th slavery, due to the 13 Amendment. Scoreboard Answer

$600 What is the Border South? Scoreboard

$800 States in this southern sub-region waited to secede until after the war had begun. Scoreboard Answer

$800 What is the Middle South? Scoreboard

$1000 This southern sub-region had about 30% of its population consisting of slaves. Scoreboard Answer

$1000 What is the Middle South? Scoreboard

$200 This 1831 rebellion in Virginia left over 50 whites dead and scared southerners into fiercely opposing abolitionism. Scoreboard Answer

$200 What is the Nat Turner Rebellion? Scoreboard

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$400 This style of killing in the South reached its climax in the 1890 s. Scoreboard Answer

$400 What are lynchings? Scoreboard

$600 This abolitionist fanatic (and his sons) killed pro -slaveryites in Kansas and Virginia prior to the Civil War. Scoreboard Answer

$600 Who is John Brown? Scoreboard

$800 Grant signed these laws in 1870 and 1871 in an attempt to crush the Ku Klux Klan. Scoreboard Answer

$800 What are the Enforcement Acts (or Force Acts)? Scoreboard

$1000 This 1822 South Carolina conspiracy was the largest slave rebellion that never happened. Scoreboard Answer

$1000 What is the Denmark Vesey Conspiracy? Scoreboard

$200 This party nearly became the 2 nd major party in America by focusing heavily on nativism. Scoreboard Answer

$200 What is the Know -Nothing (American) Party? Scoreboard

$400 This law became the most controversial aspect of the Compromise of 1850. Scoreboard Answer

$400 What is the Fugitive Slave Law? Scoreboard

$600 This 1860 proposal would have guaranteed slavery south of the 36° 30’ line all the way to California but Lincoln vetoed it. Scoreboard Answer

$600 What is the Crittenden Amendment? Scoreboard

$800 These northern Democrats were pro-South and favored Confederate independence (and they despised Lincoln). Scoreboard Answer

$800 Who are the Copperheads? Scoreboard

Place a between $200 to $2000 (or higher if you have more money) Question

$1000 In 1864, Lincoln vetoed this bill—in effect a 50% plan for Reconstruction. Scoreboard Answer

$1000 What is the Wade-Davis Bill? Scoreboard

$200 This plan sought to strangle the Confederacy through a naval blockade. Scoreboard Answer

$200 What is the Anaconda Plan? Scoreboard

$400 This post-Civil War organization, founded by General Oliver Howard, sought to help former slaves to adjust to life as free people. Scoreboard Answer

$400 What is the Freedmen’s Bureau? Scoreboard

$600 This secret declaration sought to force Spain to sell Cuba to the U. S. , but President Pierce ended up with egg on his face. Scoreboard Answer

$600 What is the Ostend Manifesto? Scoreboard

$800 This is the pejorative term southerners used to describe southern Republicans who sought to help the freedmen. Scoreboard Answer

$800 What is Scalawags? Scoreboard

$1000 This state constitution sought to bring Kansas into the Union as a slave state but was rejected by Congress in 1857. Scoreboard Answer

$1000 What is the Le. Compton Constitution? Scoreboard

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Ultimate Question In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln supposedly trapped Douglas into stating that territories could effectively outlaw slavery. Douglas’ statement became known as this. Scoreboard Answer

Ultimate Question What is the Freeport Doctrine? Scoreboard Back to Question