NYC social studies curriculum up to the outbreak of civil war review Live Trivia Game

The questions

1. The Three-Fifths Compromise was a deal made at the Constitutional Convention. What did it decide?
   · That three-fifths of all taxes had to be paid in gold

   · That enslaved people would count as three-fifths of a person for population counting

   · That three-fifths of the states had to agree to pass any law

   · That Congress could only meet for three-fifths of the year
2. Which of these BEST describes the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
   · It banned all trade with Missouri forever

   · It allowed Missouri to join as a slave state while Maine joined as a free state, keeping a balance

   · It gave Missouri its own president and flag

   · It turned Missouri into two separate states to make everyone happy
3. The Underground Railroad was NOT actually underground or a railroad. So what WAS it?
   · A secret tunnel system under the Mississippi River

   · A network of secret routes and safe houses that helped enslaved people escape to freedom

   · A coded newspaper that printed escape maps in the comics section

   · A society of railroad workers who protested long working hours
4. Which event is considered a MAJOR cause of the Civil War because it made the fight over slavery in new territories super heated?
   · The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney

   · The building of the Erie Canal

   · The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which led to violent conflict called Bleeding Kansas

   · The Louisiana Purchase turning everyone into farmers
5. Manifest Destiny was the belief held by many 19th-century Americans. What did they believe?
   · That the United States was destined to expand all the way to the Pacific Ocean

   · That every American was destined to own a manifest, or list, of their belongings

   · That the country was destined to remain small and avoid conflict

   · That American ships were destined to rule all the world's oceans
6. The Dred Scott Decision of 1857 by the Supreme Court was a HUGE deal. What did it say?
   · That Scott had earned his freedom by being a great chef in the North

   · That enslaved people were property, not citizens, and had no right to sue in court

   · That all enslaved people in southern states would be freed immediately

   · That Dred Scott was allowed to run for Congress in Missouri
7. What was the main purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Lincoln in 1863?
   · To declare war on Canada for supporting the Confederacy

   · To declare that enslaved people in Confederate states were free

   · To give women the right to vote in all northern states

   · To lower the price of cotton so southern farmers would stop complaining
8. The Nullification Crisis involved South Carolina arguing that states could ignore federal laws they didn't like. Who was the president who firmly said 'No way!' to that idea?
   · Thomas Jefferson

   · James Madison

   · Andrew Jackson

   · Martin Van Buren
9. What made the election of 1860 so significant that Southern states started leaving the Union shortly after?
   · The winner forgot to show up to his own inauguration

   · Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the spread of slavery, won without a single Southern electoral vote

   · The election results were lost in a fire and had to be guessed

   · Two candidates tied and the Supreme Court had to flip a coin
10. The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was a landmark event. What was it mainly about?
    · Planning a new canal route through Seneca Falls, New York

    · Debating the best way to grow crops in upstate New York

    · Demanding equal rights for women, including the right to vote

    · Organizing a protest against the Erie Canal toll prices

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