STAAR Jeopardy: Vocabulary Definitions, Events, and People

1. STAAR Jeopardy

2. A Vocab. 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 C Events 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 D People 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 E Pot Luck 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 B War 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

3. A10 Vocab. Definition: Minimum Government Interference-idea that citizens have the right to privacy and independence from government control. Answer: Laissez Faire

4. A-20 Vocab. Def.: Economic system in which England controlled trade of the colonies. Answer: mercantilism

5. A30 Vocab. Def.: Power of the government is shared between the states and the national government. Answer: Federalism

6. A40 Vocab. Def.: Puts strict requirements on government to protect the people. Answer: Limited Government

7. A50 Vocab. Def.: Pt. 1 -The quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong Pt. 2 – A social process where cities grow • Answer: • Pt. 1 – 25 pts. – virtue • Pt. 2 – 25 pts. - urbanization

8. A60 Vocab. Def.: idea that a state government could cancel or ignore a federal law that they feel unfairly hurts their state (Unconstitutional) • Answer: • Nullification

9. A70 Vocab. Def.: Individual people and not the government control the economy; people decide what to make, sell and buy • Answer: • Free Enterprise System

10. A80 Question: What was a period of great revivalism that spread throughout the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s? • Answer: • The 1st Great Awakening

11. A90 Question: What called for a Bi-cameral Congress with population based representation in the House, and two representatives per state in the Senate? • Answer: • Great Compromise by Roger Sherman

12. A100 Question: What do you call a native white Southerner who collaborated with the occupying forces during Reconstruction, often for personal gain? • Answer: • Scalawags

13. B10 Question:? What war happened because the British colonists wanted to take over French land in North America? Answer: French & Indian War

14. B20 Question: What was the first battle of the American Revolution when the British were seeking the Patriot arsenal? And what was the turning point of the American Revolution? Answer: 10 pts. - Lexington & Concord 10 pts. - Saratoga

15. B30 Question: What was the last battle of the American Revolution? • Answer: • Battle of Yorktown where Cornwallis surrendered.

16. B40 Question: What was the turning point of the Civil War with a battle in the North? And where were the first shots fired that started the Civil War? Answer: 20 pts. -Battle of Gettysburg 20 pts. – Fort Sumter

17. B50 Question: List three events that led to the colonists choosing to go to war with Britain. • Answer: 15 pts each or 50 for all 3 • Intolerable Acts • Boston Massacre • Townshend Acts, Stamp Act, • Sugar Act, Tea Act

18. B60 Question: What was a battle in the Civil War that ended up dividing the South? • Answer: • Vicksburg, lost control of the Mississippi River which divided the South

19. B70 Question: The 13 colonies became independent from England; the boundaries of the new nation were the Mississippi river to the west, Canada to the north, and Spanish Florida to the south. • Answer: • Treaty of Paris 1783 • ended the American Revolution

20. B80 Question: What war caused the following which led to industrialization: America could not buy goods from England and was forced to make their own goods, inventions changed the way goods were produced; improvements in transportation made it easier, faster and cheaper to send goods to buyers. • Answer: • War of 1812 • British against the Americans

21. B90 Question: Who was the 1st African –American awarded the Medal of Honor while serving with the 54th Massachusetts Regiment during the Civil War? And who was the Navy Seaman who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his valor in the Battle of Fort Fisher? • Answer: • 45 pts. -William Carney – 1st AA • 45 pts. – Philip Bazaar

22. B100 Question: What was the single bloodiest battle in one day of the Civil War and what was the first state to secede thus beginning the Civil War? • Answer: • 50 pts – Battle of Antietam • 50 pts – South Carolina Dec. 20, 1860 – 1st state to secede other southern states soon followed and formed the Confederate States of America.

23. C10 Question: When and what was the 1st Permanent English Colony? Answer: 1607; Jamestown, Virginia

24. C20 Question: When and what was signed by the Pilgrims and helped establish the idea of self-government? Answer: 1620 Mayflower Compact

25. C30 Question: When and who assassinated President Lincoln at Ford’s Theater while he was watching the play, "Our American Cousin”? Answer: 1865; John Wilkes Booth

26. C40 Question: Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner were watching the battle of Fort McHenry? Answer: Francis Scott Key

27. C50 Question: What was the document that stated there would be non-interference of European nations in the Western Hemisphere? Answer: Monroe Doctrine

28. C60 Question: What were three causes of the Civil War? Answer: Slavery Sectionalism States Rights

29. C70 Question: What social movement tried to stop the drinking of alcohol? Answer: Temperance Movement

30. C80 Question: Where was the first women’s rights convention held and who were the two leader of this convention? Answer: Seneca Falls Convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott leading it.

31. C90 Question: Where was there a conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people in 1854-59? Answer: Bleeding Kansas

32. C100 Question: What lasted from 1865-67 followed Lincoln’s goals and pushed for the ratification of the thirteenth amendment which prohibited slavery? Answer: Reconstruction

33. D10 • Question: In his farewell address, he warned of political parties and to avoid foreign alliances. Answer: George Washington

34. D20 Question: These two people were both born slaves but had escaped slavery and became leading abolitionists. Name one. Answer: Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass

35. D30 Question: Who was the most influential Supreme Court Justice; he helped establish the idea of Judicial Review which made the Supreme Court the powerful institution it is today? Answer: John Marshall

36. D40 Question: Author of the Declaration of Independence Answer: Thomas Jefferson

37. D50 Question: He was a transcendentalist which stress the relationship between humans & nature. He put his beliefs into practice through civil disobedience which is refusing to pay laws that he thought were unjust. Who am I? Answer: Henry David Thoreau

38. D60 Question: Boston Patriot who opposed British taxation. He established the committee of correspondence and was a leader of the Sons of Liberty. Answer: Samuel Adams

39. D70 Question: President during the Mexican War Answer: James K. Polk

40. D80 Question: President of the Confederate States of America Answer: Jefferson Davis

41. D90 Question: Wrote “Common Sense” and “American Crisis”, He urged Americans to support the Patriot cause during the American Revolution. Answer: Thomas Paine

42. D100 Question: Father of the Constitution and one of the authors of the “Federalist Papers” Answer: James Madison

43. E10 Question: What was the Supreme Court case where the Cherokee Nation sued Georgia to keep their lands and won, but were removed by Jackson anyway? Answer: Worcester v. Georgia

44. E20 Question: What established government for the Northwest Territory and described how a territory becomes a state? Answer: Northwest Ordinance

45. E30 Question: What act helped slave owners recover their runaway slaves from the North? Answer: Fugitive Slave Act

46. E40 Question: What Supreme Court Case said that a state could not tax a national bank and it increased the power of the national government? Answer: McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

47. E50 Question: What preserved balance of free and slave states and said that congress would not regulate slavery in territories. Also California becomes a free state, no slave trade in D.C., popular sovereignty in Mexican Session? Answer: Compromise of 1850

48. E60 Question: What Supreme Court Case said that federal government had the power to regulate trade between states? Answer: Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

49. E70 Question: What did the Missouri Compromise (1820) do? Answer: Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and prohibited slavery north of Missouri maintaining balance between free and slave states in Congress.

50. E80 Question: What court case said that the Supreme Court had the right to review all laws made by Congress and it established the idea of Judicial Review? Answer: Marbury v. Madison (1803)