HIUS 420 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS. VERIFIED 2025/2026.
John Brown's purpose for targeting Harpers Ferry in his 1859 raid included - ANS seizing
some of the 100,000 military rifles stored there.
The first major battle of the Civil War took place at - ANS Bull Run.
The Wilmot Proviso stipulated that - ANS slavery should not be allowed to spread into
territory gained in the war with Mexico.
Abolitionist believed - ANS all slaves should be freed immediately
In response to the outbreak of the Civil War, the state of Missouri - ANS 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"? - ANS Abraham Lincoln
After Union forces suffered defeat in the first major battle of the war, Lincoln chose ____ to
command the Union army in Virginia. - ANS George B. McClellan
David Wilmot was a - ANS Democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania.
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, During the early 1850s, the greatest source of North-South conflict was the - ANS Fugitive
Slave Act.
The first state to secede was - ANS 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 - ANS Shiloh.
The majority of the Founding Fathers believed that slavery - ANS was in the process of dying
out.
The Deep South states responded to Lincoln's election by seceding because - ANS All of the
above
Lincoln's General War Order Number One - ANS ordered all Union forces to advance on
Washington's Birthday.
The poem "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight" expressed - ANS sadness that individual
common soldiers still died even when no progress was being made toward victory.
During colonial times the institution of slavery - ANS 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 - ANS raised the suspicions of Radical
Republicans in Congress, prompting them to establish the Joint Committee on the Conduct of
the War.
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ANSWERS. VERIFIED 2025/2026.
John Brown's purpose for targeting Harpers Ferry in his 1859 raid included - ANS seizing
some of the 100,000 military rifles stored there.
The first major battle of the Civil War took place at - ANS Bull Run.
The Wilmot Proviso stipulated that - ANS slavery should not be allowed to spread into
territory gained in the war with Mexico.
Abolitionist believed - ANS all slaves should be freed immediately
In response to the outbreak of the Civil War, the state of Missouri - ANS 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"? - ANS Abraham Lincoln
After Union forces suffered defeat in the first major battle of the war, Lincoln chose ____ to
command the Union army in Virginia. - ANS George B. McClellan
David Wilmot was a - ANS Democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania.
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, During the early 1850s, the greatest source of North-South conflict was the - ANS Fugitive
Slave Act.
The first state to secede was - ANS 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 - ANS Shiloh.
The majority of the Founding Fathers believed that slavery - ANS was in the process of dying
out.
The Deep South states responded to Lincoln's election by seceding because - ANS All of the
above
Lincoln's General War Order Number One - ANS ordered all Union forces to advance on
Washington's Birthday.
The poem "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight" expressed - ANS sadness that individual
common soldiers still died even when no progress was being made toward victory.
During colonial times the institution of slavery - ANS 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 - ANS raised the suspicions of Radical
Republicans in Congress, prompting them to establish the Joint Committee on the Conduct of
the War.
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