Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz

1. Where was John Brown's raid on October 16, 1859?

Elmira

Elma

Osawatomie

Topeka

Harper's Ferry

2. What was John Brown's objective on the night of October 16, 1859?

Start the Underground Railroad

Raise attention to the abolitionist movement

Begin an "army of emancipation"

Campaign for Lincoln

Start a new nation

3. Who captured John Brown and his raiders?

Ulysses S. Grant

Stonewall Jackson

William Sherman

Robert E. Lee

George McClellan

4. In what era did John Brown emerge as a significant, and violent, opponent to slavery?

Bleeding Kansas

Bleeding Nebraska

Fighting Osawatomie

Missouri Freedom Fighters

Confederacy

5. What act in 1854 opened up territory that had been previously banned from becoming slave states?

Missouri Compromise

Kansas Nebraska Act

Missouri Kansas Act

Texas Act

Georgia Alabama Act

6. Julia Ward Howe set what song to the tune of "John Brown's Body"?

"Stars and Stripes Forever"

"God Bless America"

"Battle Hymn of the Republic"

"Star Spangled Banner"

"America the Beautiful"

7. What Supreme Court decision in 1857 dealt a blow to the abolitionist movement?

McCulloch v. Maryland

Gibbons v. Ogden

Cohens v. Virginia

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Martin v. Hunter's Lessee

8. What novel galvanized the American public to the abolition movement?

Last of the Mohicans

Little Women

The Red Badge of Courage

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Looking Backward

9. What famous American writer defended the principals of John Brown's action in an essay entitled "A Plea for Captain John Brown"?

Henry David Thoreau

Mark Twain

Herman Melville

Harriett Beecher Stowe

Edgar Allan Poe

10. Which amendment abolished slavery?

10th

12th

13th

14th

15th

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