HIUS 420 Exam 1

HIUS 420 Exam 1 Liberty University

1. John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry resulted in
2. After his troops repulsed Lee’s attack at Mechanicsville, McClellan decided to
3. According to Confederate Vice-President Alexander Stephens, the cornerstone of the Confederate government was
4. McClellan usually believed that his enemy
5. McClellan’s grand design for taking Richmond was based on approaching the Confederate capital by
6. In the Second Bull Run Campaign, Pope
7. The Battle of Fredericksburg was
8. The Battle of Gettysburg is the most famous battle of the Civil War because
9. At the Battle of Antietam
10. In the 1860 presidential election campaign, the candidate of the southern wing of the Democratic Party was
11. The Battle of Gettysburg
12. Joseph Hooker
13. Edward D. Baker, who was killed at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff, was
14. During the decade leading up to the Civil War, the federal policy that represented the greatest infringement of states’ rights was
15. The significance of Special Orders 191 was that it
16. Upon taking command in Virginia, John Pope ordered that
17. Which of the following was NOT one of the new generals whom Lincoln chose to command major armies in the fall of 1862?
18. After the Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro), Jefferson Davis
19. When the 1860 Democratic National Convention met in Charleston, South Carolina, the result was
20. At the Battle of Antietam
21. In leading his Confederate army into Kentucky in the late summer of 1862 Braxton Bragg’s chief hope was that
22. The significance of Stonewall Jackson’s brilliant spring 1862 campaign was that it
23. In response to the outbreak of fighting at Fort Sumter, Upper South
    slave states like Virginia and Tennessee
24. The Civil War
25. The Kansas-Nebraska Act
26. What did John Brown plan to accomplish in his raid at Harpers Ferry? Did it go as he planned? Explain.