If you are teaching middle school history to a homeschool class, here are some questions you can use during a jeopardy game. We are using Volume II - The Civil War to the 21st Century, ALL AMERICAN HISTORY - Uniting America's Story, Piece by Piece by Celeste W. Rakes from Bright Idea Press. It is a full year's curriculum in 32 weekly lessons with a great Activity Book for the students. This is only the beginning of the year and is for Lessons 1 through 4 only.
There are five categories for the jeopardy game: Laws, Vocabulary, Presidents, Battles, Famous People
Laws:
1) Where and/or when did this arrangement between the North and South occur: a) To satisfy the North, the importation of slaves would be illegal after 1808. b) To satisfy the South, slave owning would be allowed and the South could count slaves in determining its number of representatives in Congress, each slave being worth 3/5 of a white man.
Answer: Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia 1787. (This is additional information I found from another resource.)
2) What and when was the law called that made this arrangement between the North and the South: a) Missouri was admitted as a slave state, balanced by Maine's admission as a free state. b) Slavery was excluded from the Louisiana territory north of the latitude line 36 30' and permitted south of it. Answer: Missouri Compromise of 1820
3) Law that permitted slave owners to hunt down run-a-way slaves?
Answer: Fugitive Slave Laws
4) Which law a) rejected the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and b) made the issue of slavery a matter of popular sovereignty (changing it from a moral issue to one that could be settled by a vote)?
Answer: Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
5) What/When was the law called that made these arrangements between the North and South: a) California was admitted as a free state. b) New Mexico territory was organized w/o restriction on slavery with the provision that when applying for statehood, the territory "shall be received into the Union w/ or w/o slavery, as their Constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission. c) Fugitive Slave Laws were tightened. d) Slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia
Answer: Compromise of 1850
Vocabulary:
1) Decide themselves; whatever is popular.
Answer: Popular Sovereignty
2) Conforming to a standard of what is right and good.
Answer: Morally
3) To bind by mutual agreement.
Answer: Compromise
4) To do away with wholly.
Answer: Abolish
5) To withdraw from an organization.
Answer: Secede
Presidents:
1) President who a) signed into law the Compromise of 1850; b) term was during Matthew Perry's trade mission to Japan; and c) was the first time federal aid was used for building railroads.
Answer: Fillmore
2) The debate in Congress first began during this President's term over whether the territories taken from Mexico (after the Mexican War) should be open to slaves. Also, Congressional work first began during this President's term on what would later become known as the Compromise of 1850.
Answer: Taylor
3) President who a) ratified the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 (Lincoln condemned); b) Bleeding Kansas controversy begins; c) Term same time as founding of Republican party; d) Gadsden Purchase; e) Treaty of Kanagawa (trade w/ Japan); f) Treaty with Britain for fishing rights off Newfoundland.
Answer: Pierce
4) President whose term was during the a) Scott v. Sanford Case (Dred Scott tried to sue for freedom); b) Southern threats of secession (8 states secede); c) Same time radical abolitionist John Brown goes to Harpers Ferry.
Answer: Buchanan
5) Believed slavery was immoral, but nevertheless believed Congress had no Constitutional rights to abolish slavery where it already existed and that the Abolitionist Movement must proceed carefully. Issued the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address. He was also the first Republican President and was assasinated.
Answer: Lincoln
Battles:
1) Confederate Beauregard and his troops wanted a total and dramatic victory and fired the first shot of the Civil War.
Answer: Siege of Fort Sumter
2) After this Confederate victory the Lincoln administration realized that the war would not be over in 90 days but would be long and costly. Training Union troops became a priority.
Answer: First Battle of Bull Run or Battle of Manassas
3) Union victories that collapsed Confederate troops in Kentucky and Tennessee. Now two major water routes could be used by the Union to move troops and supplies.
Answer: Battles of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
4) Confederate ship, the Virginia, sank and destroyed two wooden Union ships. The next day the Union ship, the Monitor, fought the Virginia and it ended in a draw. Naval warfare was changed forever; wooden ships were now obsolete.
Answer: The Monitor and the Merrimack
5) Confederate hopes of recovering western and middle Tennessee were dashed after this Union victory.
Answer: Battle of Pittsburgh Landing or Battle of Shiloh
Famous People:
1) Democrat who authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. One reason was to get railroads built in the territories. He rammed it through Congress.
Answer: Senator Stephan A. Douglas
2) Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which had a tremendous influence on the slavery debate.
Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe
3) Radical abolitionist leader who condemned the South and encouraged slaves to escape and come north. Also, commanded the movement of the "Underground Railway."
Answer: William Lloyd Garrison
4) Name(s) of 1 of/or 2 moderate abolitionist leaders who did not call for an immediate and total end of slavery because they could foresee the great disruption that would result. One (Weld) founded anti-slavery societies through out New England and the other (Adams) was the first leader in Congress who introduced petitions calling for the abolition of slavery.
Answer: Theodore Weld and/or John Quincy Adams
5) Slave who tried to claim that his temporary residency in free territory had made him free upon his return to slave territory.
Answer: Dred Scott
