U.S. History Final Review

What congressman broke the Compromise of 1850 into individual parts in order to pass it?

• Henry Clay
• Daniel Webster
• John C. Calhoun
• Stephen Douglas

Who was the radical abolitonist who led both the LeCompton Massacre and the Raid on Harper's Ferry?

• John Brown
• William Garrison 
• Nat Turner
• Frederick Douglass

The president who won the election of 1856 and failed to halt the rising tensions between North and South was: 

• James Buchanan
• Stephen Douglas
• Millard Fillmore
• Henry Clay

Which battle officially began the Civil War?

• Fort Sumter
• Seven Days Battle
• First Bull Run
• Antietam

The Union strategic plan for victory over the Confederacy was called the:

• Anaconda Plan
• Rattlesnake Plan
• Copperhead Plan
• Garden Snake Plan

What was the turning point of the Civil War that saw Lee's second invasion of the North defeated?

• Shiloh
• Chancellorsville
• Gettysburg
• Fredericksburg

Where did the Emancipation Proclamation free slaves?

• The Union
• The Confederacy
• The Border States
• Western Territories

By 1863 what financial legislature had the Union Government passed to help fund the war effort?

• Minimum Wage 
• Income Tax 
• Protective Tarrifs
• Embargos on Britain

The infamous Confederate prison camp that saw more than a third of its prisoner die was: 

• Andersonville
• Elmira
• Camp Douglas
• Auschwitz

Where did Robert E. Lee officially surrender to Ulysses S. Grant?

• Appomattox Court House
• Richmond
• Mobile Bay
• Bull Run