Civil War 45 Jeopardy Template

Slavery	Politics	Battles and War	Numbers	Vocab
100 What is a plantation. an estate on which crops and tobacco are cultivated.	100 Who was president at the time Abe Lincoln	100 What is general in chief the commander of army land forces	100 When did the civil war start April 12, 1861	100 What was the border states Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Missouri
200 What are slave huts These huts were constructed and served as camping facilities for slaves	200 What is Confederacy the new nation formed by the seceding southern states.	200 What is Sherman’s March to the Sea the scorched-earth campaign employed in Georgia by Union general William Tecumseh Sherman	200 When did the civil war end April 9, 1865	200 What is Rifling helical groovings that helped bullets travel
300 What was the first slave rebellion? Nat Turner's Rebellion, 1831	300 What is habeas corpus the right of those arrested to be brought before a judge or court to determine whether there is cause to hold the prisoner	300 What is Fort Sumter a fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, where the Union garrison came under siege by Confederate forces in an attack.	300 How many soilders died in the Civil war 620,000	300 What is Artillery Large caliber firearms like cannons and mortars.
400 What crops did slaves cultivate. olives, grapes, sugar, cotton, tobacco, coffee, and certain forms of rice.	400 What is the Crittenden Compromise a compromise, suggested by Kentucky senator John Crittenden, that would restore the 36°30′ line	400 What is the Army of the West the Union fighting force operating in Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Mississippi River Valley.	400 What percent of the American population died in the civil war 2%	400 What is an Abolitionist A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery.
500 Who was Frederick Douglass an escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker.	500 What is the Emancipation Proclamation signed on January 1, 1863, the document with which President Lincoln transformed the Civil War into a struggle to end slavery	500 What is the Gettysburg Address a speech by Abraham Lincoln dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863	500 How much ammunition did the average north soilder carry. 60-80 rounds	500 What is a Yankee A nickname for people from the North as well as Union soldiers.

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