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PyramidPyramid

Game Rules• Teams divided into groups• One partner has their back to the TV• Other partner faces them while looking

at the TV• When the answer is given on the TV the

sender begins giving clues• PASS if you don’t know that answer• There are 7 questions per round• We will be playing 3 rounds• Team with the highest total moves

onto the Final Round

Each team must Each team must now choose now choose

their first two their first two contestants. contestants.

First group step First group step up to the front, up to the front, other groups other groups step outside.step outside.

Round Round 11

Stamp Act

Intolerable Acts

Articles of Confederation

Great Compromise

Thomas Paine

5th Amendment

Compromise of 1850

AnswersAnswers

Placed a tax on goods Placed a tax on goods imported from Britainimported from Britain

Prompted the Prompted the colonies to colonies to

assemble the First assemble the First Continental Continental

CongressCongress

Set up a Congress in Set up a Congress in which each state had 1 which each state had 1

vote; weak central vote; weak central governmentgovernment

Set up a 2-house Set up a 2-house legislature; 1 legislature; 1 house had = house had =

representation, 1 representation, 1 house was based house was based

on populationon population

Wrote Wrote Common Common SenseSense, urging the , urging the

colonies to colonies to separate from separate from Great BritainGreat Britain

5th amendment in Bill of Rights; 5th amendment in Bill of Rights; allows people to avoid self-allows people to avoid self-

incrimination, double jeopardy. incrimination, double jeopardy. Need due process of law. Need due process of law.

Eminent domain.Eminent domain.

Allowed CA to be Allowed CA to be admitted as a free admitted as a free

state, stricter fugitive state, stricter fugitive slave laws, popular slave laws, popular sovereignty for new sovereignty for new

territoriesterritories

Now two NEW contestants from each

group

Round Round 22

Popular sovereignty

Dred Scott decision

Emancipation Proclamation

Free Soilers

15th Amendment

Sharecroppers

Harriet Tubman

Round 2Round 2AnswersAnswers

Allowed residents Allowed residents of the territory to of the territory to decide whether decide whether

slavery would be slavery would be allowed in a allowed in a

territoryterritory

Declared the being Declared the being in a free territory in a free territory

did not make a did not make a slave free.slave free.

Abolished slavery Abolished slavery in the Northin the North

Northerners who wanted Northerners who wanted to keep slavery out of the to keep slavery out of the

territories but did not territories but did not have positive feelings have positive feelings

toward African Americanstoward African Americans

Stated that no citizen Stated that no citizen may be denied the right may be denied the right

to vote on account of to vote on account of race, color, or previous race, color, or previous condition of servitude.condition of servitude.

Farmers who agreed to Farmers who agreed to give most of their give most of their

harvest to the harvest to the landowners in landowners in

exchange for use of the exchange for use of the land, seeds, & toolsland, seeds, & tools

Helped over 300 Helped over 300 slaves safely flee th slaves safely flee th

South by using a South by using a system known as the system known as the

Underground Underground Railroad Railroad

Round Round 33

Round Round 33

Jefferson Davis

Fugitive Slave Act

Confederacy

Kansas Nebraska

Act

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Eminent Domain

Checks & Balances

Round 3Round 3AnswersAnswers

President of President of the the

ConfederacyConfederacy

Defined slaves Defined slaves as propertyas property

Southern states Southern states seceeded from seceeded from

the Unionthe Union

Divided the Divided the Nebraska Nebraska TerritoryTerritory

Wrote Wrote Uncle Tom’s Uncle Tom’s CabinCabin, using a , using a

moral argument moral argument against slaveryagainst slavery

Allows the Allows the government to take government to take private property for private property for public use with just public use with just

compensationcompensation

The system that The system that maintains the maintains the

separation of powers separation of powers among the three among the three branches of the branches of the

federal governmentfederal government

Winner’s Winner’s CircleCircle

Your team needs 5 out of 6 to win!!!

Choose your Choose your 2 contestants2 contestants

Boston Tea Party

101000

101000

Ratification

101000

151500

101000

151500

Elastic Clause

101000

151500

202000

101000

151500

202000

Shay’s Rebellion

454500

101000

151500

202000

454500

101000

151500

202000

Electoral College

454500

606000

101000

151500

202000

454500

606000

101000

151500

202000

13th Amendment

10010000

454500

606000

101000

151500

202000