The British general in charge of the campaigns of 1779-1780 that were designed to eliminate patriot resistance in North and South Carolina was 

The Union commander of the Army of the Potomoc, who unsuccessfully invaded Virginia in the Peninsular Campaign of 1862, but who forced Robert E. Lee to abandon his invasion of the North at the Battle of Antietam, was:

The biggest battle of the War of 1812 took place in January, 1815, three weeks after a peace treaty ending the war, was agreed to in Belgium.  Where was this battle?

The five members of the committee appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence in 1776 were Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, and

Which constitutional amendment (ratified in December, 1865) formally abolished slavery in the United States?

In 1798, Congress passed a Sedition Act, which made it punishable by fine or by imprisonment to publicly criticize Congress or the President (despite the obvious contradiction of the First Amendment to the Constitution). Which President signed this odious legislation into law?

The southern movement to secede from the Union began about a month after this man won the presidency, despite receiving no electoral votes from any of the slave states.  He was:

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 made the war a war to end slavery in addition to the original Union goal, which was to:

The “corrupt bargain” of 1824 involved the Speaker of the House of Representatives using his influence to determine the presidential election in return for an appointment by the incoming president to the position of Secretary of State. Who was this famous Speaker of the House?

The one and only President of the Confederate States of America was: