Wednesday 4/13

The painting above originally produced in 1872 by John Gast is known as-

• Lady Liberty

• American Progress

• Westward Destiny

• Amber Waves of Grain

The events above contributed to-

• the election of Abraham Lincoln

• the start of the American Civil War

• the creation of the Missouri Compromise

• the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

In 1861 a civil war began between the northern and southern states of the United States. A major reason for this conflict was a disagreement about-

• the admission of free states into the union

• the right of states to maintain the practice of slavery

• the return of fugitive enslaved people to slaveholders

• the extension of citizenship rights to formerly enslaved people

The American Civil War started on April 12, 1861 when-

• South Carolina seceded from the Union

• Confederate Army soldiers fired on Fort Sumter

• Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States

• Jefferson Davis was elected President of the Confederate States

A biography on the career of General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson would include his involvement in which Civil War event?

• The First Battle of Bull Run and the Confederate victory at Fredericksburg

• The Union capture of Atlanta and the March to the Sea through Georgia

• The Virginia Peninsula campaign and the Union victory at Gettysburg

• The campaigns in Northern Virginia and the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

• a

• b

• c

• d

The first permanent English settlement on US soil was founded in what year?

• 1620

• 1609

• 1617

• 1607

What date was the Declaration of Independence endorsed by the Second Continental Congress?

• July 1, 1774

• July 4, 1776

• July 2, 1777

• June 4, 1776