Antebellum Jeopardy

Final Jeopardy

GA PIEDMONT ATLANTA CHEROKEE

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$100 Question from GA

What does Antebellum

mean?

$100 Answer from GA

The society and culture that developed in the South before the Civil War.

$200 Question from GA

How did Slavery affect the Baptist and Methodist

Churches?

$200 Answer from GA

Northern churches broke away from the Southern churches

over the issue of slavery.

$300 Question from GA

Describe the Geography and Society of the North during this time period.

$300 Answer from GA

• Industrial•Many Cities•Natural Harbors•People were dependent on one another for goods and services.

•Expected more services from the Government

$400 Question from GA

What law was passed that specifically named one slave state

one free state?

Hint – truly balancing admission of slave/free states in the National

Government

$400 Answer from GA

Missouri Compromise 1820

Missouri Slave StateMaine Free State

$500 Question from GA

Name at least 5 factors that encourage economic prosperity in

Antebellum GA

$500 Answer from GA

Slavery, Cotton, Plantation System, Railroads, and/or Development of Industries

along the Fall Line

$100 Question from PIEDMONT

What does Succession mean?

$100 Answer from PIEDMONT

To leave a union.

In this case, the United States of

America.

$200 Question from PIEDMONT

What happened to the population of slaves as cotton

production increased?

$200 Answer from PIEDMONT

The slave population increased.

$300 Question from PIEDMONT

What did the Georgia Platform say?

$300 Answer from PIEDMONT

Georgia would obey the Compromise of 1850 as long as

the North did – Fugitive Slave Act.

Georgia would not secede.

$400 Question from PIEDMONT

3 things that the Compromise of 1850 said?

$400 Answer from PIEDMONT

California added as a Free State.

Fugitive Slave Law passed (North had to return escaped slaves to the South).

Popular Sovereignty – New Mexico and Utah would vote to see if slavery would be allowed.

$500 Question from PIEDMONT

What were the results of the Dred Scott Case?

$500 Answer from PIEDMONT

1.Dred Scott was property, a slave.2.A slave did not have the right to sue

in US Courts. 3.Congress could not ban slavery in

the new western territories.

$100 Question from ATLANTA

What is Sectionalism?

$100 Answer from ATLANTA

Putting the interests of the region above the nation.

$200 Question from ATLANTA

Why was the term “Bleeding Kansas”

used to describe Kansas?

$200 Answer from ATLANTA

Popular Sovereignty caused Abolitionists and Slavery

supporters to rush into the territory – violence broke out.

$300 Question from ATLANTA

Describe the Geography and

Society (people) of the South

$300 Answer from ATLANTA

1. Rural &Agricultural 2. Plantation system & Slavery3. Warm climate – fertile top soil4. People provided for themselves

– hunted, farmed, fished. 5. Did not expect services from the

government.

$400 Question from ATLANTA

How did the rail lines affect Georgia?

$400 Answer from ATLANTA

Using the rail lines…

Extended cotton growth into the Piedmont.

Made transportation of cotton faster and more reliable.

Gave planters additional options for shipping cotton.

$500 Question from ATLANTA

Why did the geography of Georgia’s Fall Line region attract cotton planters?

$500 Answer from ATLANTA

Because of the climate, soil, and how the area created favorable conditions for

industry.

$100 Question from CHEROKEE

How was popular sovereignty used in the

Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

$100 Answer from CHEROKEE

Voters decided if slavery would be allowed in

the new states.

$200 Question from CHEROKEE

How did the cotton gin change the geography

of GA agriculture?

$200 Answer from CHEROKEE

The cotton gin made it possible to grow and process cotton far

into the State’s interior.

$300 Question from CHEROKEE

Why did the South want land in the west to be distributed quickly &

cheaply?

$300 Answer from CHEROKEE

So the land could be used as

plantations with slave labor.

$400 Question from CHEROKEE

How did the North and South feel differently

about tariffs?

$400 Answer from CHEROKEE

North: wanted protective tariffs so American goods would be cheaper than

foreign goods.

South: against protective tariffs; they got many goods from Britain.

$500 Question from CHEROKEE

How did the North and South feel differently about Nullification?

$500 Answer from CHEROKEE

North: Against Nullification – believed that all US laws should be followed.

South: For Nullification – believed that all US laws should be followed.

Final Jeopardy

How did the South’s economy

drive their politics?

Final Jeopardy Answer

The South’s economy was based on the

Plantation system where Slave labor was used.

Southern politics were focuses on protecting slavery to protect the South’s economy.