Wheel of Fortune

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Wheel of Fortune
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Rules

• You must answer a question correctly before
  choosing a letter
• You may not help/talk to teammates
• But to help yourself, check your answers
• Also, highlight questions you answered
  incorrectly so you can focus on learning the
  correct information
• You get points each time your letter appears in
  the puzzle and you do not have to buy vowels
• Solving the puzzle
• If you correctly solve the puzzle, the points you
  earned are doubled
• If you incorrectly solve the puzzle, your team
  does not get the points you earned
• If you correctly identify the movie the quote is
  from. You get the points from that person
  doubled again

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Puzzles
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Review Questions
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Puzzle 1
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• What were border states?
• Union slave states that were important because of
  their location and resources

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• What was King Cotton?
• The Confederacys strategy to withhold cotton
  from the world market in exchange for help from
  France and Britain

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• Define the Anaconda Plan.
• The Unions strategy to smother the Souths
  economy by using the Navy to prevent the
  transportation of goods or people in or out of
  the Confederacy. Controlling the Mississippi
  River would split the Confederacy in two.

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• Why was the Mississippi River important in the
  Civil War?
• If the Union controlled the Mississippi River,
  the Confederacy would be split in two

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• What did the North and the South think after the
  Confederacy won Bull Run?
• The South thought the war was won
• The north realized it had underestimated its
  opponent

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• In which four (4) resources did the North have
  the advantage over the South?
• Population
• Industrial workers
• Factories
• Railroad mileage

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• What two (2) advantages did the South have during
  the Civil War?
• able generals
• fighting a defensive war

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• Describe the average soldier in the Civil War.
• A farmer 18-30

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• What was the largest cause of death during the
  Civil War?
• Disease

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• Why was disease such a problem during the Civil
  War?
• People didnt understand infection

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• What were the three (3) main advances in warfare
  during the Civil War?
• The rifle
• The Minié Ball
• Ironclads

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• What would happen to black soldiers or their
  officers if they were captured by the
  Confederacy?
• They would be shot

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• How did African-American soldiers respond to
  receiving lower pay than white soldiers?
• They refused to take any pay

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• What are four (4) reasons Robert E Lee invaded
  Maryland in September 1862?
• Victory in the North might force Lincoln to talk
  peace
• Invasion would give Virginia farmers a rest from
  war during harvest season/
• Confederates could plunder Northern farms for
  food
• A win could convince Europe to side with the
  South and end the war

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• Which battle was fought on the bloodiest day in
  American history?
• Antietam

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• How could the Civil War have ended after the
  battle of Antietam?
• General McClellan could have followed and finish
  off the crippled Southern army.

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• Which successful and aggressive general did
  Lincoln promote after firing his general with
  the slows?
• Ulysses S Grant

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• Who was the most prominent, successful, and
  aggressive Confederate general?
• Robert E. Lee

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• What was the main reason and effect of issuing
  the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863?
  
• Weaken the Confederacy

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• Who was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation?
• Slaves in the Confederacy, slaves Union soldiers
  could reach

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• How did Copperheads feel the Emancipation
  Proclamation would affect the war?
• It would anger the South and prolong the war

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• What were two (2) ways Confederates could avoid
  conscription laws?
• Confederate exemption policy (owning 20 or more
  slaves)
• Hiring a substitute

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• What were three (3) reasons for Confederate food
  shortages?
• Many farmers were fighting in the Confederate
  army
• Food sometimes couldnt get to market because
  trains were now being used to carry war materials
• The Confederate army seized food and supplies for
  its own needs

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• During the Civil War, what four (4) jobs did
  women do that men did prior to the Civil War?
• Plowing fields
• Running farms/plantations
• Office jobs
• Factory jobs

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• What were three (3) ways women helped the
  military during the Civil War?
• Volunteer workers
• Nurses
• Spies

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• What two (2) things did Lee hope to gain from a
  Confederate victory in Union territory in 1863?
• Fuel Northern discontent
• Recognition and/or help from European nations

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• What was Picketts Charge?
• General Lees order for a direct unprotected
  uphill Confederate attack against the middle of
  the Union lines at Gettysburg by General George
  Pickett

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• What effect did Picketts Charge have at
  Gettysburg?
• It forced Lee to retreat to Virginia

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• How did the Siege of Vicksburg affect the Civil
  War?
• The Union now had complete control over the
  Mississippi and the Confederacy was split in two.

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• How did Gettysburg and Vicksburg turn the tide of
  the Civil War for the North?
• Britain gave up all thought of supporting the
  South

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• What were three (3) examples of total war used by
  General Sherman in his march through Georgia?
• Tearing up rail lines
• Destroying crops
• Looting and burning towns

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• How did Shermans success in Georgia affect the
  1864 presidential election?
• Northerners thought the end was close and
  reelected Lincoln with 55 of the popular vote

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• What three (3) things did General Grant offer
  surrendering Confederate soldiers at Appomattox?
• Return home in peace
• Keep their private possessions and horses
• Food

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34Evaluate the success or failure of the Union
strategy during the Civil War. (Explain the
Union strategy why it helped them win the War.)

• Anaconda Plan
• A naval blockade to prevent people or goods from
  going in to or out of the Confederacy
• Control the Mississippi River to split the
  Confederacy in two
• Proof it worked (important victories)
• Fort Donelson and Fort Henry in Tennessee
• Battle of New Orleans
• Siege of Vicksburg

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34 Evaluate the success or failure of the
Confederate strategy during the Civil War.
(Explain the Confederate strategy why it made
them lose the War.)

• King Cotton
• withhold cotton from the world market until
  France or Britain decided to help by sending
• Troops
• Supplies
• Money
• Win a battle in the North to prove they could win
  the War
• Proof it failed
• Losses
• Antietam
• Gettysburg
• Siege of Vicksburg
• Europe had cotton during most of the War

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35Analyze how the Civil War affected society in
the Union or Confederacy. (Explain how what
people did was changed by the war. )

• Women
• Took mens jobs
• Factories
• Offices
• Farms
• Plantations
• In the army
• Nurses
• Spies
• Volunteered to help the armies
• Donated time
• Made things for troops

• Food shortages
• Farmers became soldiers
• Trains were carrying food and supplies to
  soldiers
• Rich wouldnt sell food cheaply to poor
• Confederate slaves freed by Emancipation
  Proclamation
• Rich and Powerful Confederates could avoid the
  draft
• Confederate Exemption Policy (20 or more slaves)
• Purchase a substitute to fight in their place

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35Analyze how the Civil War affected society
economy in the Union and Confederacy. (Explain
money issues during the war.)

• Inflation
• Food shortages
• Farmers became soldiers
• Trains were carrying food and supplies to
  soldiers
• Rich wouldnt sell food cheaply to poor
• Rich and powerful Confederates could avoid the
  draft
• Confederate Exemption Policy (20 or more slaves)
• Purchase a substitute to fight in their place