American Treaties and Generals

Question 1

Ended the American Revolution with England.

Answer 1

Treaty of Paris (1783)

Question 2

British agreed to leave the forts they occupied on the U.S. frontier.

Answer 2

Jay’s Treaty (1794)

Question 3

Spain allowed Americans to travel freely along the Mississippi River and settled boundary disputes between U.S. and Spain.

Answer 3

Pinckney’s Treaty (1795)

Question 4

Ended the Battle of Fallen Timbers; 12 Indian tribes agreed to give up their land that consisted of most of present-day Ohio and Indiana to the U.S. government.

Answer 4

Treaty of Greenville (1795)

Question 5

America acquired Lousiana territory from France; doubled the size of the country.

Answer 5

Louisiana Purchase (1803)

Question 6

Spain gave Florida to the United States.

Answer 6

Adams-Onís Treaty (1819)

Question 7

Ended the War of 1812 with England.

Answer 7

Treaty of Ghent (1814)

Question 8

Divided Oregon Country between the United States and Canada.

Answer 8

Oregon Treaty (1846)

Question 9

Ended the war with Mexico; U.S. acquired the Mexican Cession.

Answer 9

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)

Question 10

Ended Spanish-American War; Cuban independence; U.S. acquires Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines.

Answer 10

Treaty of Paris (1898)

Question 11

The surrender at Appomattox Court House was a military surrender of an army which was surrounded.

Answer 11

Civil War

Question 12

A senior officer in the United States Army, who served as Supreme Allied Commander Europe and the 19th Chief of Staff of the United States Army.

Answer 12

Matthew B Ridgway

Question 13

An American military commander and political candidate. He served as a general in the United States Army from 1814 to 1861, taking part in the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the early stages of the American Civil War, and various conflicts with Native Americans.

Answer 13

Winfield Scott

Question 14

Confederate soldier, best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army. He commanded the Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until its surrender in 1865.

Answer 14

Robert E Lee

Question 15

A General of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

Answer 15

George S Patton

Question 16

A senior United States Army officer. His most famous post was when he served as the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front in World War I, 1917–18.

Answer 16

John J Pershing

Question 17

A Confederate general during the American Civil War, and became one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee.

Answer 17

Stonewall Jackson

Question 18

An American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II.

Answer 18

Douglas MacArthur