Antebellum Persona

Pre-War Politics

Chief Executives

Terms Kansas Causes of the War

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Final Jeopardy 5th Hour

• Visual

• Shelby Foote

Final Jeopardy 8th Hour

• Free to control their own finances and economic affairs, the women of this polis, had advantages that few cultures in world history can point to as they owned 40% of the land!

• Sparta

Antebellum Persona: 100

• His Proviso indicated that slavery should not be permitted to extend into the territories acquired in the war with Mexico?

• David Wilmot—The Wilmot Proviso

Antebellum Persona 200

• DOUBLE JEOPARDYDOUBLE JEOPARDY

• “The little woman who started this great war”

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Antebellum Persona 300

• Forged the Great Compromise of 1850

• Henry Clay

Antebellum Persona 400

• The courageous person who risked his political life to champion the cause of Union during the compromise of 1850?

• Daniel Webster

Antebellum Persona 500• The president “elects” in 1848, 1852, and 1856?

• Taylor, Pierce, and Buchannan

Pre-War Politics 100

• Elected primarily because he was a Northerner who was NOT disagreeable to the South?

• Pierce or Buchannan

Pre-War Politics 200

• ½ of the famous debating duo with Abraham Lincoln in 1858—his “Freeport doctrine” was a way to slowly eliminate slavery in the territories.

• Stephen A. Douglass

Pre-War Politics 300

• The formal withdrawal of a state from the union is….

• Secession

Pre-War Politics 400

• The most disagreeable component of the Compromise of 1850 for Northerners?

• Fugitive Slave Law

Pre-War Politics 500

• The party created in 1856 from the “Free Soil Party” and the Northern Abolitionist democrats

• Republican Party

Chief Executives 100

• “The Doughface”

• James Buchannan

Chief Executives 200

• His death brought the untimely and forgettable presidency of Millard Fillmore

• Zachary Taylor

Chief Executives 300

• DAILY DOUBLE

• This New Hampshire executive found that his presidency was marred by personal tragedy and alcoholism.

• Franklin Pierce

Chief Executives 400

• His stance did not include a concrete platform for the abolition of slavery, despite popular opinion.

• Abraham Lincoln

Chief Executives 500

• Attempted to reach out to the South by nominating a pro-union Tennessean as his VP candidate.

• Abraham Lincoln

Terms 100

• The constituents of a territory should decide its status in slavery.

• Popular Sovereignty

Terms 200

• Body of Evidence

• Habeas Corpus

Terms 300

• Slaves are considered “property” without legal rights to utilize the court system.

• Dred Scott decision

Terms 400

• The network of aboliitionists whose aim was to help runaway slaves reach safe harbor in the North.

• Underground Railroad

Terms 500

• Preventing a region from participating in maritime commerce.

• Blockade

Kansas 100

• His massacre at Pottowatamie Creek sponsored violence in the region.

• John Brown

Kansas 200

• The initial reason for pushing statehood in Kansas/Nebraska?

• Building of a transcontinental Railroad

Kansas 300

• Visual Clue:

• Voting in Kansas

Kansas 400

• Offensive senator from Missouri whose inflammatory remarks on the subject sponsored violence

• David Atchison

Kansas 500

• This “constitution” was later endorsed as the legitimate constitution of the territory by President James Buchannan

• The LeCompton Constitution

Causes of the War 100

• Brooks-Sumner affair

Causes of the War 200

• His election brought about secession in South Carolina

• Abraham Lincoln

Causes of the War 300

• John Brown’s raid at _______ prompted fear amongst Southerners

• Harpers Ferry

Causes of the War 400

• This political party ceased to exist after 1856

• Whig Party

Causes of the War 500

• Amidst secession this president chose to sit back and do absolutely nothing.

• James Buchannan

Tale of the Tape

Thinkin

Lincoln

Potpurri Battles More Battles

Generals

200 200 200 200 200 200

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Tale of the Tape: 200

• Possessed the more effective political leadership?

• North

Tale of the Tape 400

• Had the “state department’s archive” in my hat, held its first meetings in a hotel.

• Confederates

Tale of the Tape 600

• Had a distinct advantage in most “military” areas including caliber of fighting men and military leadership.

• Confederate

Tale of the Tape 800

• Possessed the Merrimac

• Confederate

Tale of the Tape 1000

• Felt that Britain would come to their assistance as a result of their dependence on textiles

• South

Thinkin Lincoln 200

• My homestate?

• Kentucky

Thinkin Lincoln 400

• DAILY DOUBLE

• Assassinated Lincoln in April of 1865

• John Wilkes Booth

Thinkin Lincoln 600

• My least favorite general?

• George McClellan

Thinkin Lincoln 800

• The event saved my re-election bid in 1864

• Sherman’s March to the Sea

Thinkin Lincoln 1000

• 1/1/1863

• Emancipation Proclamation

Potpurri 200

• 1820 law that put a boundary on slavery.

• Mo. Compromise

Potpurri 400

• Visual Clue

• Harriet Tubman

Potpurri 600

• Ironclads

• Merrimac and Monitor

Potpurri 800

• Land purchase in 1853 that completed the “continental” United States

• Gadsden Purchase

Potpurri 1000

• Daily Double

• Exective Branch of the Confederacy (VP and Pres)

• Alexander Stephens-VP

• Jefferson Davis-Pres.

Battles 200

• Pickett’s Charge

• Gettysburg

Battles 400

• The opening shot of the war was fired at

• Fort Sumter

Battles 600

• Union victory that saw McClellan “find” a stroke of luck only to fail to capitalize?

• Antietam

Battles 800

• As part of the Overland campaign Grant later lamented the charge that cost him huge casualties.

• Cold Harbor

Battles 1000

• Saw the cities inhabitants of the city eating rats and printing newspapers on the back of old wall paper.

• Vicksburg

More Battles 200

• General who wanted to “make Georgia howl”.

• William Tecumseh Sherman

More Battles 400

• Saw the death of Lee’s right hand man-Stonewall Jackson.

• Chancellorsville

More Battles 600

• The bloodiest day in American History

• Antietam

More Battles 800

• Death toll was as high as all other American wars combined in this famed Tennessee battle at a place whose name means Peace.

• Shiloh

More Battles 1000

• Despite staggering death tolls inflicted upon Grant’s men, the Union wins a huge battle—total war is taking an enormous toll on the Confederacy in May 1864.

• Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

Generals

• Visual clue

• Ambrose Burnside

Generals 400

• “If _____ isn’t going to use the army, could I please borrow it?”

• McClellan

Generals 600

• The South’s greatest general (pre-Lee) who was killed at Shiloh

• Albert Sidney Johnson

Generals 800

• Gained fame for his victories at Shiloh and Vicksburg, brought control of the West and a fighting spirit.

• U.S. Grant

Generals 1000

• “The South’s Fightingest General”

• A.P Hill