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JEOPARDY!
1 - $100 question
Why do people buy stock in a company?
1 - $100 answer
so they can get a share of the profit that the company makes
1 - $200 question
Instead of people making a lot of goods to sell, what made
more of the goods during the Industrial Revolution?
1 - $200 answer
machines
1 - $300 question
How did factories make more products quickly?
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they used the assembly line idea
1 - $400 question
When did the Industrial Revolution roughly take place?
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1865 - 1900
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Even though factories grew rapidly during this time, what is one negative effect it had on the
workers?
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#1 less workers were needed because machines did a lot of
work#2 working on an assembly line
could get boring
2 - $100 question
What part of the country did people build sod houses and
used barbed wire fences?
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the Great Plains
2 - $200 question
What is one method that people used to move west in New York
State?
2 - $200 answer
the Erie Canal
2 - $300 question
What is the belief called where people thought they were
supposed to move west all the way to the Pacific Ocean?
2 - $300 answer
Manifest Destiny
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Why did people move to California in the late 1840s?
Hint: the “49ers”
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to find gold
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What mode of transportation helped people to move west and was completed in 1869?
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the transcontinental railroad
3 - $100 question
If the president vetoes a bill, the congress can do what if they get
2/3 of the Congress to agree
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override the president’s veto
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The Supreme Court can decide that a law is unconstitutional.
This is called…
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judicial review
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When George Bush sent troops to fight in the Persian Gulf he
was acting as …
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commander in chief
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What is true about states with a larger population when it comes
to electing the president?
3 - $400 answer
Larger states (NY, CA, TX)have more electoral votes.
States with smaller populations (AK, RI, HI) have fewer votes
3 - $500 question
Which court case gave the Supreme Court power to decide
if a law is unconstitutional?
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Marbury vs. Madison
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When deciding on the Constitution they debated over
what?
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how large and small states could both be fairly represented
in Congress
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How can lawmakers change the Constitution?
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they can make an amendment
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Which document is described by the following:
* Congress couldn’t collect taxes* Congress couldn’t regulate trading
* there was no national court
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Articles of Confederation
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What does the First Amendment protect?
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* freedom of speech, religion, meeting together, … Others?
4 - $500 question
The Great Compromise helped create the…
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The Constitution.
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What event caused so many people to become unemployed?
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the stock market crash
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Which decade is associated with the Depression and the tough times that followed?
A. 1920sB. 1930sC. 1940s
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the 1930s
5 - $300 question
Although the New Deal helped get the US out of the
Depression, why did some people oppose it?
5 - $300 answer
they thought the government be getting too involved and would ruin the free-enterprise system
5 - $400 question
Name 3 causes of the Depression!
5 - $400 answer
* people buying stocks on margin
* overusing credit* supply was too high, demand
too low
5 - $500 question
Name a New Deal program that is still around today!
5 - $500 answer
Social Security Act
6 - $100 question
What part of the country did the first white settlers build in?
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the Atlantic Coast
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What river was in New France?
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the St. Lawrence River
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The colonists said “no taxation without representation.” Who
made them pay taxes?
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the English parliament
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Put these in order chronologically…
* Boston Tea Party* Declaration of Independence
* French and Indian War
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*1st: French and Indian War* 2nd: Boston Tea Party
*3rd: Declaration of Independence
6 - $500 question
What do molasses and rum and slaves” have to do with one
another?
6 - $500 answer
triangular trade
The US to Africa to England