HIUS 420 Quiz Midterm

HIUS 420 Quiz: Midterm 

1. As the expiration date of the one-year enlistments of the Confederate soldiers approached in the late winter and early spring of 1862, the Confederate government responded by
2. The significance of the Union capture of Fort Donelson was that it
3. When the 1860 Republican National Convention met in Chicago, Illinois, the result was
4. McClellan’s grand design for taking Richmond was based on approaching the Confederate capital by
5. The Battle of Fredericksburg was
6. McClellan usually believed that his enemy
7. At the Battle of Antietam
8. After his troops repulsed Lee’s attack at Mechanicsville, McClellan decided to
9. Joseph Hooker
10. The Civil War
11. During the first year of the Civil War, Lincoln
12. John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry resulted in
13. During the first year of the war,
14. The president of the Confederate States of America was
15. The Confederate victory at Chancellorsville was marred by
16. During the spring of 1862 Stonewall Jackson waged a brilliant campaign of maneuver in
17. Sherman’s late 1862 offensive movement down the Mississippi River toward Vicksburg
18. Lee’s final attempt to achieve victory at Gettysburg was
19. The South Carolina secession declaration accused the North of
20. In the 1860 presidential election campaign, the candidate of the Constitutional Union Party was
21. The Battle of Gettysburg
22. Confederate cannon fired the first shots of the Civil War around the harbor of
23. William Seward persuaded Lincoln to delay issuing the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation by arguing that
24. Upon taking command in Virginia, John Pope ordered that
25. In response to Lincoln’s election as president in 1860, the first state to secede from the Union was
26. What did John Brown plan to accomplish in his raid at Harpers Ferry? Did it go as he planned? Explain.