American History People For Exams

Question 1

David Farragut

Answer 1

Led the union into victory in the battle of New Orleans

Question 2

Robert E. Lee

Answer 2

Leader of the confederate army, surrendered in the Appomattox courthouse and that ended the war

Question 3

George McCellan

Answer 3

Union leader who tried to capture Richmond but waited to long and failed

Question 4

Ambrose Burnside

Answer 4

Union leader that lost the battle of Fredericksburg, over 13,000 casualties

Question 5

Joseph Hooker

Answer 5

Defeated at the battle of Chancellorsville by the confederates which had half the men

Question 6

George Meade

Answer 6

Led the Union forces at the battle of Gettysburg

Question 7

William Sherman

Answer 7

Tried to inflict fear into the southerners by marching from Atlanta to the sea, destroying everything in his path

Question 8

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 8

President for the Republican Party, proposed the ten percent plan

Question 9

Stonewall Jackson

Answer 9

Confederate officer who stood firm at the battle of bull run, he later died at Chancellorsville

Question 10

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 10

Assassinated Lincoln

Question 11

Andrew Johnson

Answer 11

President after Lincoln

Question 12

Hiram Revels

Answer 12

Nations first African American senator

Question 13

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 13

Elected president after serving as a general during the civil war

Question 14

Rutherford B. Hayes

Answer 14

Republican presidential candidate in 1876, he only won because he promised to end the reconstruction

Question 15

Samuel Tiden

Answer 15

Democratic presidential candidate in 1876, he got the popularity vote but not the electoral vote

Question 16

Homer Plessey

Answer 16

Arrested for sitting on a bench marked “ for whites only “. This led to the famous court case

Question 17

Walt Whitman

Answer 17

Wrote the poem “ Oh captain, My captain “

Question 18

Mathew C. Perry

Answer 18

He said to Japan in 1858 to open trade

Question 19

William Steward

Answer 19

Secretary of State in 1867 and purchased Alaska

Question 20

Frederick Jackson Turner

Answer 20

Historian that argued since America expanded, certain american principles and values, were lost forever

Question 21

Alfred T. Mahan

Answer 21

Naval officer who thought the U.S. needed a strong navy

Question 22

Queen Liliuokalani

Answer 22

Hawaiian queen that tried to resist outside forces and keep tradition and order to her people

Question 23

John Hay

Answer 23

Secretary of State in 1899. He issued the open door policy

Question 24

Jose Marti

Answer 24

Cuba’s greatest poet, that urged the U.S. To help Cubas independence

Question 25

William Randolph Hearst

Answer 25

Journalist that created extreme headlines in order to sway Americas opinion

Question 26

William McKinley

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President who pressured into declaring war on Spain in Cuba and the Philippines

Question 27

Emilio Aguinaldo

Answer 27

Filipino rebel that took back his country from Spain with help from America

Question 28

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 28

He supported the Panama Canal, he also was president and made the big stick policy

Question 29

William C. Gorges

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American expert on diseases, he got rid of the malaria problem in Panama

Question 30

William Toward Taft

Answer 30

President that favored the dollar diplomacy

Question 31

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 31

President that wanted to nurture democracy around the world, he dealt with the Mexican rebels

Question 32

Francesco Villa

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Mexican rebel who crossed into New Mexico and killed 18 Americans

Question 33

Franz Ferdinand

Answer 33

His assassination set of world war 1

Question 34

Irvin McDowell

Answer 34

Union general in the battle of bull run

Question 35

Arthur Zimmerman

Answer 35

Sent a telegram to Mexico asking for help, and was a German foreign minister

Question 36

Nicholas ll

Answer 36

Russian tsar who was overthrown during the Russian revolution

Question 37

Herbert Hoover

Answer 37

Head of the food administration during the war

Question 38

Eugene V. Debs

Answer 38

Leader of the socialist party and was jailed for speaking out against war

Question 39

John J. Pershing

Answer 39

Commanded the U.S. Soldiers in Europe during WW1

Question 40

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 40

Communist leader of Russia after the Russian revolution

Question 41

Wilhelm ll

Answer 41

Monarch of Germany, stepped down from his position after World War One

Question 42

Henry Cabot Lodge

Answer 42

Republican senator who opposed the League of Nations

Question 43

Josef Stalins

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Killed or imprisoned an estimate of 4 million of his own people for charges against his command

Question 44

Benito Mussolini

Answer 44

Head of the fascist state in Italy

Question 45

Adolf Hitler

Answer 45

Head of the nazis

Question 46

Haile Selassie

Answer 46

Ethiopia emperor who appealed to the League of Nations

Question 47

Neville Chamberlain

Answer 47

British prime minister who tried to appease Hitler

Question 48

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 48

Tried to keep america out of World War Two

Question 49

Winston Churchill

Answer 49

British prime minister who fought Hitler and would never surrender

Question 50

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer 50

Commanded the U.S. Troops in Europe during World War Two

Question 51

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 51

Commanded the U.S. Troops in the pacific

Question 52

A. Phillip Randolph

Answer 52

Union leader who threatened a massive protest unless Roosevelt ended military discrimination

Question 53

Harry S. Truman

Answer 53

He was president after roosevelt and dropped atomic bombs