The first shots of the Civil War were fired by Confederates against Union soldiers defending Fort Sumter, which was located on an island guarding the entrance to the harbor at:

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 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:

Established primarily for the training of Puritan ministers, this college (established in Massachusetts in 1636 ) was the first college established in America.

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 South Carolina politician who introduced nullification in 1828 as a way by which southern sates could protect such regional interests as slavery was:

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?

English colonists developed the concept of “no taxation without representation” in opposition to the:

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: