JeopardyCivil War Reconstruction Jim Crow

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Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from H1

Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

$100 Answer from H1

Fort Sumter, SC

$200 Question from H1

What is the significance of Bull Run? Antietam? Gettysburg?

$200 Answer from H1

Bull Run: 1st major conflict; won by South (Stonewall Jackson)Antietam: bloodiest single day battleGettysburg: 3-day battle considered turning point of war 

$300 Question from H1

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

$300 Answer from H1

Freed slaves in Southern states – gave people moral ground to fight war

$400 Question from H1

What was Lincoln’s primary goal at the outset of the Civil War?

$400 Answer from H1

Preserve the Union

$500 Question from H1

On April 9, 1865, where did Lee surrender to Grant?

$500 Answer from H1

Appomattox Courthouse, VA

$100 Question from H2

During Reconstruction, what happened to the power of the federal government?

$100 Answer from H2

Expanded power of Federal government over the states

$200 Question from H2

Describe Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan.

$200 Answer from H2

South never officially seceded – put Union back as fast and peacefully as possible…10% Plan

$300 Question from H2

What are the effects of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?

$300 Answer from H2

13th: Abolished slavery14th: Equal protection of laws 15th: Right to vote to all races 

$400 Question from H2

What prohibitions did black codes set up?

$400 Answer from H2

Denied blacks in South civil liberties

$500 Question from H2

When and why did Reconstruction end?

$500 Answer from H2

Compromise of 1877 – Radical Republicans lost interest – couldn’t change morals of South

$100 Question from H3

What were poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses?

$100 Answer from H3

Poll tax – pay to voteLiteracy test – must readGrandfather Clauses – if father could vote, you could vote 

$200 Question from H3

What were Jim Crow laws?

$200 Answer from H3

Ways to continue segregation in the South

$300 Question from H3

What was sharecropping?

$300 Answer from H3

Farmed the land, but forced to give a share of the crop to the owner – never got ahead

$400 Question from H3

What did WEB DuBois and Booker T. Washington believe?

$400 Answer from H3

DuBois: education meaningless without equality Washington: Af. Am. Needed to show their value in the labor market

$500 Question from H3

What is the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson?

$500 Answer from H3

Permitted segregation > “separate but equal” doctrine

$100 Question from H4

Why did westward movement intensify after the Civil War?

$100 Answer from H4

Railroads, cattle industry, land

$200 Question from H4

What is the Homestead Act?

$200 Answer from H4

Offered 160 acres of land to head of household 

$300 Question from H4

Describe the “real cowboy”.

$300 Answer from H4

Hard life working sun up till sundown - cattle drives

$400 Question from H4

Who encouraged Freedmen to move west to Kansas after Reconstruction ended in the South? And what was the name given to those who went west?

$400 Answer from H4

Benjamin “Pap” Singleton

Exodusters

$500 Question from H4

What two groups of immigrants made up the largest number of workers on the Transcontinental Railroad finished in 1869?

$500 Answer from H4

Chinese and Irish

$100 Question from H5

Who is Henry Ford and what contributions did he make?

$100 Answer from H5

Model T – revolutionized automobile industry and the assembly line process

$200 Question from H5

What is the Bessemer process?

$200 Answer from H5

New way of making steel – led to construction of skyscrapers

$300 Question from H5

Who is Thomas Edison and what contributions did he make?

$300 Answer from H5

Light bulb and distribution of electrical power

$400 Question from H5

Why was Andrew Carnegie such a successful businessman?

$400 Answer from H5

Steel industry giant – used vertical and horizontal integration to create monopoly

$500 Question from H5

What does laissez-faire mean?

$500 Answer from H5

Government should keeps its hands off the economy

Final Jeopardy

What is a Monopoly and Why is it illegal to have one?

Final Jeopardy AnswerMonopoly: controlling all or nearly all of an industryWhy: Gives that one company or person complete control over the prices for that item and does not allow for competition/competitors to make money