HIUS 420 ACTUAL EXAM PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
● John Brown's purpose for targeting Harpers Ferry in his 1859 raid included. Answer: seizing
some of the 100,000 military rifles stored there.
● The first major battle of the Civil War took place at. Answer: Bull Run.
● The Wilmot Proviso stipulated that. Answer: slavery should not be allowed to spread into
territory gained in the war with Mexico.
● Abolitionist believed. Answer: all slaves should be freed immediately
● In response to the outbreak of the Civil War, the state of Missouri. Answer: saw sharp
divisions and outbreaks of violence between Missourians supporting Union and Confederacy.
● 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"?. Answer: Abraham Lincoln
● After Union forces suffered defeat in the first major battle of the war, Lincoln chose ____ to
command the Union army in Virginia.. Answer: George B. McClellan
● David Wilmot was a. Answer: Democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania.
● During the early 1850s, the greatest source of North-South conflict was the. Answer:
Fugitive Slave Act.
● The first state to secede was. Answer: South Carolina.
● In April, General Albert Sidney Johnston launched a major offensive aimed at restoring
Confederate fortunes west of the Appalachians, leading to the Battle of. Answer: Shiloh.
● The majority of the Founding Fathers believed that slavery. Answer: was in the process of
dying out.
● The Deep South states responded to Lincoln's election by seceding because. Answer: All of
the above
● Lincoln's General War Order Number One. Answer: ordered all Union forces to advance on
Washington's Birthday.
, ● The poem "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight" expressed. Answer: sadness that
individual common soldiers still died even when no progress was being made toward victory.
● During colonial times the institution of slavery. Answer: remained very small in the northern
colonies for reasons both of conscience and economics.
● The significance of the Battle of Ball's Bluff was that it. Answer: raised the suspicions of
Radical Republicans in Congress, prompting them to establish the Joint Committee on the
Conduct of the War.
● Secession commissioners were sent from. Answer: the Deep South states to other slave
states for the purpose of persuading those states to secede.
● When the 1860 Republican National Convention met in Chicago, Illinois, the result was.
Answer: the nomination of Abraham Lincoln for president.
● The Compromise of 1850 provided that. Answer: California should be admitted as a free
state.
● 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.
Answer: Confederate conscription act, required white men ages 18-35 to serve in the military
● The significance of the Union capture of Fort Donelson was that it. Answer: allowed the
Union to control the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers, first turning point
● McClellan's grand design for taking Richmond was based on approaching the Confederate
capital by. Answer: way of the Chesapeake bay
● The Battle of Fredericksburg was. Answer: Burnsides attempt to get across from?
● McClellan usually believed that his enemy. Answer: had far more men than he did
● At the Battle of Antietam. Answer: the slaughter exceeded any other one-day battle of the
war
● After his troops repulsed Lee's attack at Mechanicsville, McClellan decided to. Answer:
retreat
● Joseph Hooker. Answer: was appointed by Lincoln to command the Army of the Potomac in
January
● The Civil War. Answer: During the first year of the Civil War, Lincoln
ANSWERS GRADED A+
● John Brown's purpose for targeting Harpers Ferry in his 1859 raid included. Answer: seizing
some of the 100,000 military rifles stored there.
● The first major battle of the Civil War took place at. Answer: Bull Run.
● The Wilmot Proviso stipulated that. Answer: slavery should not be allowed to spread into
territory gained in the war with Mexico.
● Abolitionist believed. Answer: all slaves should be freed immediately
● In response to the outbreak of the Civil War, the state of Missouri. Answer: saw sharp
divisions and outbreaks of violence between Missourians supporting Union and Confederacy.
● 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"?. Answer: Abraham Lincoln
● After Union forces suffered defeat in the first major battle of the war, Lincoln chose ____ to
command the Union army in Virginia.. Answer: George B. McClellan
● David Wilmot was a. Answer: Democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania.
● During the early 1850s, the greatest source of North-South conflict was the. Answer:
Fugitive Slave Act.
● The first state to secede was. Answer: South Carolina.
● In April, General Albert Sidney Johnston launched a major offensive aimed at restoring
Confederate fortunes west of the Appalachians, leading to the Battle of. Answer: Shiloh.
● The majority of the Founding Fathers believed that slavery. Answer: was in the process of
dying out.
● The Deep South states responded to Lincoln's election by seceding because. Answer: All of
the above
● Lincoln's General War Order Number One. Answer: ordered all Union forces to advance on
Washington's Birthday.
, ● The poem "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight" expressed. Answer: sadness that
individual common soldiers still died even when no progress was being made toward victory.
● During colonial times the institution of slavery. Answer: remained very small in the northern
colonies for reasons both of conscience and economics.
● The significance of the Battle of Ball's Bluff was that it. Answer: raised the suspicions of
Radical Republicans in Congress, prompting them to establish the Joint Committee on the
Conduct of the War.
● Secession commissioners were sent from. Answer: the Deep South states to other slave
states for the purpose of persuading those states to secede.
● When the 1860 Republican National Convention met in Chicago, Illinois, the result was.
Answer: the nomination of Abraham Lincoln for president.
● The Compromise of 1850 provided that. Answer: California should be admitted as a free
state.
● 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.
Answer: Confederate conscription act, required white men ages 18-35 to serve in the military
● The significance of the Union capture of Fort Donelson was that it. Answer: allowed the
Union to control the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers, first turning point
● McClellan's grand design for taking Richmond was based on approaching the Confederate
capital by. Answer: way of the Chesapeake bay
● The Battle of Fredericksburg was. Answer: Burnsides attempt to get across from?
● McClellan usually believed that his enemy. Answer: had far more men than he did
● At the Battle of Antietam. Answer: the slaughter exceeded any other one-day battle of the
war
● After his troops repulsed Lee's attack at Mechanicsville, McClellan decided to. Answer:
retreat
● Joseph Hooker. Answer: was appointed by Lincoln to command the Army of the Potomac in
January
● The Civil War. Answer: During the first year of the Civil War, Lincoln
