| Turning Points | ||
| #1 | Where in Pennsylvania did the Union and Confederates engage in a 3-day battle in 1863? | Battle of Gettysburg |
| #2 | After which battle did Lincoln initially announce his intention to free the slaves in areas that were still in rebellion after January 1, 1863? |
Battle of Antietam |
| #3 | Why was the Emancipation Proclamation a turning point in the Civil War? | It changed the war to give it a moral cause (the end of slavery) |
| #4 | Why was Lincoln's Re-Election a turning point in the Civil War? | It meant that there would not be a negotiated peace with the South |
| #5 | Which Supreme Court precedent undermined Reconstruction by ruling that the right to ride trains and use public facilities was the duty of a state to regulate and not Congress? | Slaughterhouse Cases |
| Lincoln's Assassination | ||
| #1 | Where was President Lincoln on April 14, 1865 when an assassin shot him in the head? | Ford's Theater |
| #2 | Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln? | John Wilkes Booth |
| #3 | Which federal agency did Abraham Lincoln approve in the hours before his assassination? | Secret Service |
| #4 | Which of the co-conspirators of John Wilkes Booth escaped by fleeing the country and was eventually caught in Egypt? | John Surrat |
| #5 | What did Lincoln's assassin yell after shooting Lincoln? | Sic Semper Tyrannis! (Ever thus to tyrants!) |
| Reconstruction | ||
| #1 | Whose Reconstruction Plan was known as the “Ten Percent Plan”? | Abraham Lincoln |
| #2 | Whose Reconstruction Plan required wealthy and prominent Southerners to write to the president directly in order to receive pardons? | Andrew Johnson |
| #3 | Which group in Congress pushed for harsher Reconstruction terms for the South? | Radical Republicans |
| #4 | What group of Southerners hoped to unite Southern whites and regain Southern power? | Redeemers |
| #5 | Which Reconstruction Plan called for a majority of a state’s prewar voters to swear a loyalty oath before Reconstruction could begin and called for African American equality? | Wade-Davis Bill |
| Racism | ||
| #1 | Which fraternal organization formed to subjugate and intimidate freedmen? | Ku Klux Klan |
| #2 | What was the name for laws passed in the South that aimed to limit African American rights? | Black Codes |
| #3 | Which tactic to prevent African Americans from voting required the payment of money in order to vote? | Poll Tax |
| #4 | Which rule allowed poor and uneducated Southern whites to vote while still preventing African Americans from voting under discriminatory tactics in the South? | Grandfather Clause |
| #5 | Which laws in the South sought to keep African Americans and whites segregated? | Jim Crow Laws |
| Hodge Podge | ||
| #1 | What was the term used for the process of bringing the Southern states back into the Union, rebuilding the South’s economy, and promoting the rights of former slaves? | Reconstruction |
| #2 | For the first time in history, how did journalists like Matthew Brady bring battlefield images of the Civil War to the public? | Photographs |
| #3 | Where did the majority of African Americans live after the Civil War? | Rural South |
| #4 | Which song, allegedly written by Daniel Decatur Emmett of Ohio became the unofficial anthem of the Confederacy during the Civil War? | Dixie |
| #5 | In what city was the KKK founded? | Pulaski, Tennessee |
| Final Question | |
| Number your paper from 1-7. The team with the most correct answers will win Final Jeopardy. 1. What was the name of General Grant's Division at Appomattox Court House? 2. What was the name of General Lee's division at Appomattox Court House? 3. Who was the President of the U.S. during the Civil War? 4. Who was the first Vice President of the U.S. during the Civil War? 5. Who was the second Vice President of the U.S. during the Civil War? 6. Who was the President of the Confederacy during the Civil War? and 7. Who was the Vice President of the Confederacy during the Civil War? | 1. Army of the Potomac, 2. Army of Northern Virginia, 3. Abraham Lincoln, 4. Hannibal Hamlin, 5. Andrew Johnson, 6. Jefferson Davis, 7. Alexander Stephens |