HIUS 420 Quiz 1

HIUS 420 Quiz 1

HIUS 420 Quiz 1 Liberty University

1. When Union troops advanced from Washington toward Richmond in July 1861, the result was
2. As their president, the Confederate States selected
3. David Wilmot was a
4. Abolitionists believed
5. During 1861 George B. McClellan’s command of the Army of the Potomac in Maryland and Virginia was characterized primarily by
6. The Wilmot Proviso stipulated that
7. The majority of the Founding Fathers believed that slavery
8. The first major national political crisis over slavery involved the proposed admission of the new state of
9. The Confederacy was organized and had its first capital at
10. When fighting broke out at Fort Sumter, the state of Kentucky responded by
11. Regarding the Union advance to Bull Run during 1861, who said: “You are green, it is true, but they are green, also; you are green alike”?
12. The South responded to Lincoln’s election by seceding because
13. The cause of the Civil War was
14. Confederate General Leonidas Polk’s September 1861 occupation of the Mississippi River town of Columbus, Kentucky
15. The Civil War began when
16. The Trent Affair
17. In 1859, Harpers Ferry was
18. The significance of the Battle of Ball’s Bluff was that it
19. In the 1860 presidential election, the candidate of the southern wing of the Democratic Party was
20. Fort Henry was captured primarily by