American History Quiz: Landmarks, Figures, and Events

1. PREVIOUS ANSWER = Will Appear Here 1. Which term listed below describes land masses that join an established nation, such as California and Texas joining the United States? Annexation Migration Secession Neutrality

2. PREVIOUS ANSWER = ANNEXATION 2. Which person listed below would NOT be associated with the era of Manifest Destiny? John Sutter Brigham Young James K. Polk Dred Scott

3. PREVIOUS ANSWER = DRED SCOTT 3. Which person listed below became the first President of the Lone Star Republic? Brigham Young Andrew Jackson Stephen Austin Sam Houston

4. PREVIOUS ANSWER = SAM HOUSTON 4. Which person listed below was a former War Hawk during the War of 1812 but was now known as the Great Compromiser? John C. Calhoun William H. Harrison James K. Polk Henry Clay

5. PREVIOUS ANSWER = CLAY 5. Which compromise listed below made California and the District of Columbia free of slavery? Missouri Compromise 3/5ths Compromise Great Compromise Compromise of 1850

6. PREVIOUS ANSWER = 1850 6. Which state listed below has its southern border on the Mason Dixon Line, which officially separates the North from the South? North Carolina Maryland Pennsylvania Kentucky

7. PREVIOUS ANSWER = PENNA 7. Which person listed below is best described as an empresario who was later unjustly arrested and sent to prison in Mexico City? Stephen Austin Sam Bowie Santa Anna Sam Houston

8. PREVIOUS ANSWER = STEPHEN AUSTIN 8. Keeping normal settlement patterns in mind, which state listed below would most likely become a new state last? Kansas Ohio Kentucky Indiana

9. PREVIOUS ANSWER = KANSAS 9. Which person listed below is often called the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad? John Brown Nat Turner Dred Scott Harriet Tubman

10. PREVIOUS ANSWER = TUBMAN 10. Which law listed below put the concept of popular sovereignty into play to determines a state’s slave or free status? Homestead Act Free Soil Party Missouri Compromise Kansas - Nebraska Act

11. PREVIOUS ANSWER = KAN-NEB ACT 11. Which person listed below would NOT be considered an abolitionist? Harriet Tubman Jefferson Davis John Brown Frederick Douglass

12. PREVIOUS ANSWER = JEFF DAVIS 12. Which item listed below would NOT be associated with the Mormons? Brigham Young Utah Territory Inner Light Great Salt Lake

13. PREVIOUS ANSWER = INNER LIGHT 13. Which battle listed below would be considered the last major battle of the Mexican American War? Battle of Cerro Gordo Battle of San Antonio Battle of Buena Vista Bear Flag Revolt

14. PREVIOUS ANSWER = BUENA VISTA 14. Which of the following states would be associated with the Bear Flag Republic? Montana Texas West Virginia California

15. PREVIOUS ANSWER = CALIFORNIA 15. Some members of the 49ers did strike it rich but most eventually transitioned into what profession? Agricultural Farming Railroad Construction Labor in Industry Industrial Mining

16. PREVIOUS ANSWER = FARMING 16. Which of the following concepts would allow settlers in western territories to decide their state status of slave or free by way of a vote? Compromise of 1850 Executive Action The Fugitive Slave Law Popular Sovereignty

17. PREVIOUS ANSWER = POPULAR SOV. 17. Which item listed below would most be associated with the term… Peculiar Institution? Tariff of Abominations Missouri Compromise Marbury vs. Madison Alien and Sedition Acts

18. PREVIOUS ANSWER = MISSOURI 18. Who wrote the controversial novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin that described the cruelty of slavery in the south? Phillis Wheatley Harriet B. Stowe John Brown Charles Dickens

19. PREVIOUS ANSWER = STOWE 19. What term describes territory withdrawing from the United States such as the majority of Southern States during the Civil War? Recession Annexation Secession Proclamation

20. PREVIOUS ANSWER = SECESSION 20. All of the following words could be associated with John C. Calhoun except… Abolitionist Vice-president Nullification Plantation

21. PREVIOUS ANSWER = ABOLITIONIST 21. Name of the new country established for former slaves in Africa by the American Colonization Society? Libya Zaire Somalia Liberia

22. PREVIOUS ANSWER = LIBERIA 22. Which of the following states listed below was classified as a Border State during the Civil War? Maryland Maine Arkansas Virginia

23. PREVIOUS ANSWER = MARYLAND 23. Which person listed below would best be described as an Abolitionist? Sojourner Truth Robert E. Lee Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Davis

24. PREVIOUS ANSWER = TRUTH 24. Which person listed below captured the Federal Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia? Nat Turner Frederick Douglass Stonewall Jackson John Brown

25. PREVIOUS ANSWER = J. BROWN 25. Name the general born in the Lititz Area, who unfortunately is famous for being the first officer killed in Battle of Gettysburg? John Reynolds Josh Chamberlain George Meade Ambrose Burnside

26. PREVIOUS ANSWER = REYNOLDS 26. Who was the local president from Lancaster City, who is often known as the worst in history because he watched the nation divide and did little to stop the growing conflict? Ulysses S. Grant Franklin Pierce Andrew Johnson James Buchanan

27. PREVIOUS ANSWER = BUCHANAN 27. Which man listed below was known as the Little Giant who famously debated Lincoln for the Republican nomination for president? Andrew Johnson Thaddeus Stevens Stephen A. Douglas Jefferson Davis

28. PREVIOUS ANSWER = DOUGLAS 28. Which person listed below famously unsuccessfully sued for his freedom when his master took him into the free territory of Illinois? William Still Booker T. Washington Dred Scott Robert Smalls

29. PREVIOUS ANSWER = DRED SCOTT 29. Name the abolitionist newspaper published by Frederick Douglass for the purpose of spreading propaganda to end slavery… The Liberator The North Star Harper’s Weekly Boston Herald

30. PREVIOUS ANSWER = NORTH STAR 30. The American Civil War is often called the first Modern War because it was the first conflict to take place following… The War of 1812 Transcontinental Railroad Industrial Revolution Emancipation Proclamation

31. PREVIOUS ANSWER = INDUSTRIAL REV 31. Which item below would NOT be considered a Northern advantage during the Civil War? Immigration Population Railroad Transportation Industrial Centers Top Military Command

32. PREVIOUS ANSWER = TOP COMMAND 32. Which item listed below forced black citizens living in the North to carry proof they were free or be returned to a state of slavery? Plessy vs. Ferguson Compromise of 1850 The Fugitive Slave Act Dred Scott Decision

33. PREVIOUS ANSWER = FUGITIVE S. ACT 33. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the… Confederate Southern States Border Slave States Union Northern States Western Territories

34. PREVIOUS ANSWER = CONFEDERATE 34. Which battle listed below of the Civil War would be considered an Important Union victory? Battle of First Manassas Battle of Antietam Battle of Fredericksburg Battle of Chancellorsville

35. PREVIOUS ANSWER = ANTIETAM 35. The Confederacy was hoping to form an alliance with which foreign country listed below, who imported their cotton? Italy Spain France England

36. PREVIOUS ANSWER = ENGLAND 36. Which item listed below would most be associated with the presidency of James K. Polk? Manifest Destiny Industrial Revolution Reconstruction Era Era of Good Feelings

37. PREVIOUS ANSWER = MANIFEST DESTINY 37. What was the name of the main branch of the Confederate Army led by General Robert E. Lee during the Civil War? Army of the Peninsula Army of Middle Tennessee Army of the Louisiana Army of Northern Virginia

38. PREVIOUS ANSWER = N. VIRGINIA 38. What was the name of the main branch of the Union Army during the Civil War? Army of the Shenandoah Army of the Potomac Army of the Mississippi Army of the Cumberland

39. PREVIOUS ANSWER = POTOMAC 39. Which battle listed below is often referred to as the Bloodiest Day due to the more than 22,000 combined causalities suffered near Sharpsburg, Maryland? Appomattox Vicksburg Antietam Fredericksburg

40. PREVIOUS ANSWER = ANTIETAM 40. What southern general listed below led a disastrous charge over open ground on the third day at the Battle of Gettysburg? Jubal Early John Bell Hood Richard Ewell George E. Pickett

41. PREVIOUS ANSWER = PICKETT 41. Which person listed below served as a nurse during the Civil War but is best known for a famous book of poetry entitled, Leaves of Grass? Harriet B. Stowe Walt Whitman Mark Twain Edger A. Poe

42. PREVIOUS ANSWER = JOHN BROWN 42. Which person listed below would best be associated with the era following the Civil War called Reconstruction? Edwin Stanton Clara Barton John Reynolds Thaddeus Stevens

43. PREVIOUS ANSWER = STEVENS 43. Which person listed below was the Union General who won the Battle of Gettysburg? George G. Meade Josh Chamberlain Ulysses S. Grant James Longstreet

44. PREVIOUS ANSWER = MEADE 44. Which city listed below became the capital of the Southern Confederacy? Baltimore, Maryland Richmond, Virginia Savannah, Georgia Williamsburg, Virginia

45. PREVIOUS ANSWER = RICHMOND 45. What term listed below best describes former slaves who fought for the Union in Colored Regiments? Copperheads Partisans Renegades Contraband

46. PREVIOUS ANSWER = CONTRABAND 46. Which battle of the Civil War listed below is most often referred to as the Turning Point of the conflict? Second Manassas Battle of Antietam Battle of Chancellorsville Battle of Gettysburg

47. PREVIOUS ANSWER = GETTYSBURG 47. Which Union general listed below captured Atlanta using a tactic known as Total War in his famous March to the Sea? Ulysses S. Grant Josh Chamberlain William T. Sherman George G. Meade

48. PREVIOUS ANSWER = SHERMAN 48. Which Union general was fired by Lincoln twice and later defeated by him in the Presidential Election of 1864? George McClellan Josh Chamberlain Ulysses S. Grant George G. Meade

49. PREVIOUS ANSWER = MCCLELLAN 49. Which man listed below became president when President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater? James Buchanan Andrew Johnson Ulysses S. Grant Stephen Douglass

50. PREVIOUS ANSWER = JOHNSON 50. Which man listed below was the cavalry leader who left General Lee blind as he entered Gettysburg? James Longstreet J.E.B. Stuart George Pickett Philip Sheridan