Cornel 1-20 Flashcards
A fort, once a chapel, in San Antonio, Texas.
What is Alamo?
The Mexicans, under the command of General Santa Anna, besieged the Alamo, and eventually killed all of the defenders.
Who was Davy Crockett?
Appomattox court house.
What is Verginia?
General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S Grant in April of 1865.
What effectively ended the American Civil War?
A black sailor killed in the Boston Massacre.
Who was Crispus Attucks?
It is purported that Crispus Attucks was among the first American to die in the struggle for liberty.
What was the Boston Massacre?
African-American scientist of the late 18th and early 19th centries.
Who was Benjamin Banneker?
Banneker taught himself in order to make astronomical calculations for trigonometry.
What was Calculus and trigonometry?
The first ten amendments of the constitution.
What was the Bill of Rights?
The first ten amendments.
What is the constitution?
The respective nicknames assigned to the union and confederate armies in the civil war.
What is Blue and Gray?
The respected nicknames assigned to the union and confederate armies.
What was the Civil War?
An American frontier.
Who was Daniel Boone?
The infamous concentration camp.
What is Auschwitz?
Camp established by Nazis and Poland.
What is the concentration camp?
A prison in Paris.
What is Bastille?
A prison.
Where is Paris?
Daniel Boone was an American frontier settler.
What was the Late 18th and Early 19th century?
The assassin of Lincoln.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
John assassinated a famous person.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
A clash between British troops and town’s people in boston.
What was the Boston Massacre?
Boston massacre was a clash between British troops and town’s people in Boston in 1770.
What was before the Revolutionary War.
This was an act.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
The Boston Tea Party was an act of defiance toward the British government.
Who where the American colonists?
The first great battle of the Revolutionary War.
What was the Battle of Bunker Hill?
The first great battle of the revolutionary war.
Where is Boston?
The war fought in the United States of America between north and south.
What is the Civil War?
The civil war was between north and south of America.
When was 181-1865?
The fundamental law of the United States.
What is the Constitution?
The constitution was the fundamental law of the United States, drafted in Philadelphia.
When was 1789?
A Spanish explorer of the 16th century.
Who was Francisco Coronado?
One of Coronado’s men.
Who was the first European to discover the Grand Canyon?
A 19th century Reformer who protested.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
Dorothea Dix was a 19th century Reformer.
What is a Protest?
A political leader of the 19th century.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
Stephen A. Douglas was known for running against Abraham Lincoln—for a seat in the senate from illness.
When was 1858?
A proclamation made by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
What was the Emancipation Prflamation?
Emancipation proclamation was made by president Abraham Lincoln.
When was 1863?
The first article of the BILL OF RIGHTS.
What was the First Amendment?
The first amendment forbids Congress from tampering with the freedoms of religion, speech, assembly, and the press.
What is Materials In Written/Printed Form?
