Chapters 1519 Jeopardy

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Chapters 15-19 Jeopardy
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People 100

• Responsible for the growth of cotton sales in the
  south.
• Who is Eli Whitney

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People 200

• Responsible for building a canal that started an
  epidemic by other states to follow suit to
  decrease costs of transportation
• Who is Dewitt Clinton

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People 300

• This person was a strong abolitionist and wrote
  the Liberator.
• Who is William Lloyd Garrison

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People 400

• Gave the following speech at the Seneca Falls
  Convention Aint I a Woman
• Who is Sojourner Truth

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People 300

• This person was known as Little Giant
• Who is Stephen Douglas

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People 400

• This person was known for his higher law and
  moral responsibility
• Who is William H. Seward

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People 500

• This person opened Japan for trade.
• Who is Commodore Matthew Perry

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People 600

• This person wrote Democracy in America
• Who is Alexis de Toqueville

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Potpourri 100

• What did poor southern white owners hope to have
  some day to fulfill their American Dream
• What are slaves

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Potpourri 200

• This person led a slave rebellion against his
  masters and neighbors. He brutally murdered
  whites, and caused an anxiety among plantation
  owners ? resulting in tougher laws.
• Who is Nat Turner

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Potpourri 300

• This organization was founded to help Africans
  go back to Africa and would pay for trips across
  the Atlantic to Liberia.
• What is the American Colonization Society

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Potpourri 400

• Stated that the people have the right to decide
  about the issue of slavery in new states.
• What is Popular Sovereignty

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Potpourri 500

• Convention where they came out with the
  Declaration of Sentiments
• What is the Seneca Falls Convention

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Potpourri 600

• These people were apart of this group
• Washington Irving
• James Fenimore Cooper
• William Cullen Bryant
• What are the Knickerboxers

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Government 100

• This party was dissolved and became part of the
  Republican party.
• What is the Whig party

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Government 200

• 1836 southerners drove this through congress
  which stated that all antislavery appeals in
  Congress be ended without debate.
• What is the Gag Resolution

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Government 300

• The idea that included the saying from sea to
  shining sea
• What is Manifest Destiny

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Government 400

• The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War
• What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Government 500

• Sought to stop expansion of slavery into gained
  territories from Mexican-American War.
• What is the Wilmot Proviso

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Government 600

• This law stated that Northern states officials
  could not assist anyone pursuing runaway slaves.
• What are the Personal Liberty Laws

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Presidents 100

• Known as Young Hickory, a Jacksonian
• Who is James K. Polk

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Presidents 200

• Won the election against Cass and Van Buren in
  1848. known as the hero buena vista
• Who is Zachary Taylor

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Presidents 300

• This person signed the Compromise of 1850
• Who is Millard Fillmore

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Presidents 400

• This President was from New Hampshire, and caused
  the effective end of the Whig party.
• Who is Franklin Pierce

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Presidents 500

• This was the 16th President
• Who is Lincoln

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Presidents 600

• This president had a four point program which
  restored the independent treasury, lowered
  tariffs, acquisition of california, and
  settlement of Oregon Territory.
• Who is James Polk.

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Final Jeopardy Question

• This Supreme Court case upheld the Fugitive Slave
  Law
• What is Ableman v Booth, 1859