History Exam on Units 11-15

Question 1

After the Confederacy formed, how many states in the Union practiced slavery?

Answer 1

Four

Question 2

What general led Union forces to victory at Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and Vicksburg?

Answer 2

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 3

The Confederate government formed in what city and state in February 1861? It later moved to Richmond, Virginia.

Answer 3

Montgomery, Alabama

Question 4

What agency was formed by the Federal government to help former slaves?

Answer 4

Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 5

What small town in south central Pennsylvania was the scene of a major battle after Lee invaded the North and was later the scene of a famous speech by Lincoln as he dedicated a cemetery

Answer 5

Gettysburg

Question 6

Confederate forces fired on what Federal military facility after President Lincoln tried to resupply it?

Answer 6

Fort Sumter

Question 7

An ineffective general, this man was the 1864 Democratic candidate for President.

Answer 7

George McClellan

Question 8

This slave lost a Supreme Court case in which he claimed that he should be free.

Answer 8

Dred Scott

Question 9

This Senator from Illinois debated Abraham Lincoln in an 1858 Senate race and ran for President in 1860.

Answer 9

Stephen Douglas

Question 10

List the last names of the first 19 presidents.

Answer 10

Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Tayler, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes

Question 11

What Union general oversaw the capture and burning of Atlanta and the march to the sea across Georgia?

Answer 11

William T. Sherman

Question 12

The presidential election of 1876 was marked by uncertainties and irregularities. In negotiations between Democratic and Republican leaders to settle the question, the Democrats agreed to support whose election if he promised to remove the remaining federal troops from the South and to name a southerner as postmaster general?

Answer 12

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 13

Who was Lincoln’s running mate in 1864?

Answer 13

Andrew Johnson

Question 14

Who was president of the Confederacy?

Answer 14

Jefferson Davis

Question 15

Who led a raid on a military arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in 1859?

Answer 15

John Brown

Question 16

What is the two-word term we give to the project that ran between Omaha, Nebraska, and Sacramento, California and was built by two companies, the Central Pacific and Union Pacific?

Answer 16

Transcontinental railroad

Question 17

The Confederacy was eventually made up of a total of how many states?

Answer 17

Eleven

Question 18

What was the term used for the idea that settlers in a territory should decide for themselves whether or not to admit slavery?

Answer 18

Popular sovereignty

Question 19

This South Carolinian was a Senator, Secretary of War, Secretary of state, and Vice President. He was also a strong defender of slavery.

Answer 19

John C. Calhoun

Question 20

What act of Congress enabled people to receive free land if they lived on it or farmed it for five years?

Answer 20

Homestead Act

Question 21

In April of 1865, who surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House?

Answer 21

Robert E Lee

Question 22

Who assassinated Lincoln?

Answer 22

John Wilkes Booth

Question 23

There were four candidates in the 1860 presidential contest: Stephen Douglas, John Bell, John Breckenridge, and ___.

Answer 23

Abraham Lincoln

Question 24

What President faced an impeachment trial that failed to convict him by one vote?

Answer 24

Andrew Johnson

Question 25

What is the term given to those who received a portion of the crop for their work on farms?

Answer 25

Sharecroppers

Question 26

State laws that restricted the rights of blacks were called what?

Answer 26

Black codes

Question 27

What territory became a battleground for proslavery and antislavery forces?

Answer 27

Kansas

Question 28

What state was the first to secede following the 1860 election?

Answer 28

South Carolina

Question 29

Which Constitutional amendment, passed after the Civil War, defined citizenship and guaranteed the legal rights of citizens?

Answer 29

Fourteenth amendment

Question 30

The battles at Franklin and at this Tennessee capital city were the last Confederates push in the West.

Answer 30

Nashville

Question 31

The discovery of what in California in 1848 led to a heightened debate over slavery in the U.S. territories?

Answer 31

Gold

Question 32

What President’s administration was marked by several major scandals?

Answer 32

Ulysses S Grant

Question 33

What state did Henry Clay represent in Congress?

Answer 33

Kentucky

Question 34

To what part of the Compromise of 1850 did many northerners object?

Answer 34

Fugitive Slave Law