HIUS 420 Quiz Midterm
HIUS 420 Quiz: Midterm
- 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
- The significance of the Union capture of Fort Donelson was that it
- When the 1860 Republican National Convention met in Chicago, Illinois, the result was
- McClellan’s grand design for taking Richmond was based on approaching the Confederate capital by
- The Battle of Fredericksburg was
- McClellan usually believed that his enemy
- At the Battle of Antietam
- After his troops repulsed Lee’s attack at Mechanicsville, McClellan decided to
- Joseph Hooker
- The Civil War
- During the first year of the Civil War, Lincoln
- John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry resulted in
- During the first year of the war,
- The president of the Confederate States of America was
- The Confederate victory at Chancellorsville was marred by
- During the spring of 1862 Stonewall Jackson waged a brilliant campaign of maneuver in
- Sherman’s late 1862 offensive movement down the Mississippi River toward Vicksburg
- Lee’s final attempt to achieve victory at Gettysburg was
- The South Carolina secession declaration accused the North of
- In the 1860 presidential election campaign, the candidate of the Constitutional Union Party was
- The Battle of Gettysburg
- Confederate cannon fired the first shots of the Civil War around the harbor of
- William Seward persuaded Lincoln to delay issuing the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation by arguing that
- Upon taking command in Virginia, John Pope ordered that
- In response to Lincoln’s election as president in 1860, the first state to secede from the Union was
- What did John Brown plan to accomplish in his raid at Harpers Ferry? Did it go as he planned? Explain.