History Exam Chapter 1-17

Question 1

When was the Spanish Armada defeated

Answer 1

1588

Question 2

When was the Boston Tea Party

Answer 2

1773

Question 3

When was the Treaty of Paris signed

Answer 3

1783

Question 4

When was Jamestown Founded

Answer 4

1607

Question 5

When was the Louisiana Purchase

Answer 5

1803

Question 6

When was the Mexican War

Answer 6

1846

Question 7

When was the French and Indian War

Answer 7

1754

Question 8

When was the Monroe Doctrine

Answer 8

1823

Question 9

When was the Founding of the Republican Party

Answer 9

1854

Question 10

When was the Declaration of Independence signed

Answer 10

1776

Question 11

Who was the commander-in-chief of British forces in North America during the American Revolution

Answer 11

Thomas Gage

Question 12

Who became an important part in the British campaign against the French Coast

Answer 12

John Burgoyne

Question 13

Known as Old Fuss and Feather

Answer 13

Winfield Scott

Question 14

Who was an American Presbyterian minister and missionary to the Native Americans

Answer 14

David Brainerd

Question 15

Who was a US Army officer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado was named

Answer 15

Pikes Peak

Question 16

Who defended the South Carolina Nullification Ordinance

Answer 16

Robert Hayne

Question 17

Who was a general and national hero in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War and the War of 1812

Answer 17

Zachary Taylor

Question 18

Who was a pastor to the Pilgrims

Answer 18

John Robinson

Question 19

Who wrote The Liberator

Answer 19

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 20

Who was a Royalist Statesman in New Jersey and England

Answer 20

George Carteret

Question 21

Who was the 11th President

Answer 21

James K. Polk

Question 22

Who invented Morse Code

Answer 22

Samuel F.B. Morse

Question 23

Who was a prime mover in the founding of the first foreign mission societies in North America

Answer 23

Samuel J. Mills

Question 24

Who was one of the first women who crossed the Mississippi River

Answer 24

Eliza Splalding

Question 25

Who was the 16th president

Answer 25

Abraham Lincoln

Question 26

Who became the 17th president after Lincoln’s Assassination

Answer 26

Andrew Johnson

Question 27

Who was an American freeman and educator who founded Tuskegee Institute

Answer 27

Booker T. Washington

Question 28

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 28

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 29

Who was the Confederate General who lost Atlanta, Georgia and failed to stop Sherman’s March to the Sea

Answer 29

John B. Hood

Question 30

Who was a Union general who captured Atlanta, GA and led the March to the Sea

Answer 30

William T. Sherman

Question 31

Who was known as “Unconditional Surrender Grant”

Answer 31

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 32

Who founded the American Red Cross

Answer 32

Clara Barton

Question 33

Who was a Virginian Military Officer who served as the commanding general of the Confederates during the Civil War

Answer 33

Robert E. Lee

Question 34

Who was known for his Presbyterian faith and as the South’s greatest commander after Robert E. Lee

Answer 34

Stonewall Jackson

Question 35

Confederate general who reinforced P. G. T. Beauregard at the First Battle of Bull Run

Answer 35

Joseph E. Johnston

Question 36

Who was frequently appointed and removed as commander of the Union Army

Answer 36

George B. McClellan

Question 37

Who was the Union general who lost the First Battle of Bull Run

Answer 37

Irvin McDowell

Question 38

Union general who founded Hampton University

Answer 38

Samuel Chapman Armstrong