JEOPARDY

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JEOPARDY!
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1 - 100 questionWhy do people buy stock in a
company?
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1 - 100 answerso they can get a share of the
profit that the company makes
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1 - 200 questionInstead of people making a
lot of goods to sell, what made more of the goods
during the Industrial Revolution?
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1 - 200 answermachines
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1 - 300 questionHow did factories make more
products quickly?
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1 - 300 answerthey used the assembly line idea
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1 - 400 questionWhen did the Industrial
Revolution roughly take place?
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1 - 400 answer1865 - 1900
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1 - 500 questionEven though factories grew
rapidly during this time, what is one negative
effect it had on the workers?
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1 - 500 answer1 less workers were needed
because machines did a lot of work2 working on
an assembly line could get boring
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2 - 100 questionWhat part of the country did
people build sod houses and used barbed wire
fences?
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2 - 100 answerthe Great Plains
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2 - 200 questionWhat is one method that people
used to move west in New York State?
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2 - 200 answerthe Erie Canal
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2 - 300 questionWhat is the belief called
where people thought they were supposed to move
west all the way to the Pacific Ocean?
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2 - 300 answerManifest Destiny
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2 - 400 questionWhy did people move to
California in the late 1840s?Hint the 49ers
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2 - 400 answerto find gold
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2 - 500 questionWhat mode of transportation
helped people to move west and was completed in
1869?
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2 - 500 answerthe transcontinental railroad
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3 - 100 questionIf the president vetoes a
bill, the congress can do what if they get 2/3 of
the Congress to agree
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3 - 100 answeroverride the presidents veto
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3 - 200 questionThe Supreme Court can decide
that a law is unconstitutional. This is called
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3 - 200 answerjudicial review
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3 - 300 questionWhen George Bush sent troops
to fight in the Persian Gulf he was acting as
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3 - 300 answercommander in chief
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3 - 400 question What is true about states
with a larger population when it comes to
electing the president?
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3 - 400 answerLarger states (NY, CA, TX)have
more electoral votes.States with smaller
populations (AK, RI, HI) have fewer votes
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3 - 500 questionWhich court case gave the
Supreme Court power to decide if a law is
unconstitutional?
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3 - 500 answerMarbury vs. Madison
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4 - 100 questionWhen deciding on the
Constitution they debated over what?
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4 - 100 answerhow large and small states could
both be fairly represented in Congress
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4 - 200 questionHow can lawmakers change the
Constitution?
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4 - 200 answerthey can make an amendment
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4 - 300 questionWhich document is described
by the following Congress couldnt collect
taxes Congress couldnt regulate trading
there was no national court
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4 - 300 answerArticles of Confederation
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4 - 400 questionWhat does the First Amendment
protect?
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4 - 400 answer freedom of speech, religion,
meeting together, Others?
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4 - 500 questionThe Great Compromise helped
create the
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4 - 500 answerThe Constitution.
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5 - 100 questionWhat event caused so many
people to become unemployed?
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5 - 100 answerthe stock market crash
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5 - 200 questionWhich decade is associated
with the Depression and the tough times that
followed?A. 1920sB. 1930sC. 1940s
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5 - 200 answerthe 1930s
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5 - 300 questionAlthough the New Deal helped
get the US out of the Depression, why did some
people oppose it?
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5 - 300 answerthey thought the government be
getting too involved and would ruin the
free-enterprise system
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5 - 400 questionName 3 causes of the
Depression!
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5 - 400 answer people buying stocks on
margin overusing credit supply was too high,
demand too low
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5 - 500 questionName a New Deal program that
is still around today!
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5 - 500 answerSocial Security Act
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6 - 100 questionWhat part of the country did
the first white settlers build in?
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6 - 100 answerthe Atlantic Coast
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6 - 200 questionWhat river was in New France?
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6 - 200 answerthe St. Lawrence River
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6 - 300 questionThe colonists said no
taxation without representation. Who made them
pay taxes?
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6 - 300 answerthe English parliament
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6 - 400 questionPut these in order
chronologically Boston Tea Party
Declaration of Independence French and Indian
War
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6 - 400 answer 1st French and Indian War
2nd Boston Tea Party 3rd Declaration of
Independence
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6 - 500 questionWhat do molasses and rum and
slaves have to do with one another?
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6 - 500 answertriangular tradeThe US to
Africa to England