History Exam on Units 11-15 Flashcards
After the Confederacy formed, how many states in the Union practiced slavery?
Four
What general led Union forces to victory at Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and Vicksburg?
Ulysses S. Grant
The Confederate government formed in what city and state in February 1861? It later moved to Richmond, Virginia.
Montgomery, Alabama
What agency was formed by the Federal government to help former slaves?
Freedmen’s Bureau
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
Gettysburg
Confederate forces fired on what Federal military facility after President Lincoln tried to resupply it?
Fort Sumter
An ineffective general, this man was the 1864 Democratic candidate for President.
George McClellan
This slave lost a Supreme Court case in which he claimed that he should be free.
Dred Scott
This Senator from Illinois debated Abraham Lincoln in an 1858 Senate race and ran for President in 1860.
Stephen Douglas
List the last names of the first 19 presidents.
Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Tayler, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes
What Union general oversaw the capture and burning of Atlanta and the march to the sea across Georgia?
William T. Sherman
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?
Rutherford B. Hayes
Who was Lincoln’s running mate in 1864?
Andrew Johnson
Who was president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
Who led a raid on a military arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in 1859?
John Brown
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?
Transcontinental railroad
The Confederacy was eventually made up of a total of how many states?
Eleven
What was the term used for the idea that settlers in a territory should decide for themselves whether or not to admit slavery?
Popular sovereignty
This South Carolinian was a Senator, Secretary of War, Secretary of state, and Vice President. He was also a strong defender of slavery.
John C. Calhoun
What act of Congress enabled people to receive free land if they lived on it or farmed it for five years?
Homestead Act
In April of 1865, who surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House?
Robert E Lee
Who assassinated Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
There were four candidates in the 1860 presidential contest: Stephen Douglas, John Bell, John Breckenridge, and ___.
Abraham Lincoln
What President faced an impeachment trial that failed to convict him by one vote?
Andrew Johnson
