J! History Flashcards
Richard Byrd explored what
Antarctica, North Pole (disputed)
1928 peace agreement
Germany, France, US, others
Kellogg Briand
Spain’s last territories in the new world
Cuba then Puerto Rico
Charlemagne’s successor/son
Louis the Pious
Charlemagne’s title
Holy Roman Emperor
Florence is on what river?
Arno
The Council of Clermont led to what?
The Crusades
What Pope started the crusades?
Urban II
French Jewish military guy, 1890s jailed for being a spy, exonerated
Alfred Dreyfus
Pepin the Short’s son
Charlemagne
Battle of Mobile Bay when/who
David Farragut, Civil War
Fraunces Tavern where/why
Manhattan, Revolutionary War
Warren Commission what
JFK assassination
New York Tribune, go west young man, lost to Grant, liberal
Horace Greeley
Wounded Knee when/where/who
1890
South Dakota
Lakota
Last governor of New Netherland, surrendered to the British
Peter Stuyvesant
1600s English philosopher
Empiricist
Social contract
John Locke
Group after Neanderthals
Cro-Magnon
First governor of Plymouth Colony
John Carver
First governor of PR
Florida explorer
Ponce de Leon
Led Scotland to independence 1300s
Robert the Bruce
English king 1190s
Third crusade against Saladin
Richard the Lionheart
Brother of Richard the Lionheart
King John
Native American PA athlete
Won Stockholm 1912 Olympics
Jim Thorpe
Launched the first liquid fuel rocket in Auburn, MA in 1926
Robert Goddard
1925 movie directed by Sergei Eisenstein
Battleship Potemkin
Prince who dated Catherine the Great
Grigory Potemkin
1905 mutiny in Odessa on Russian battleship
Potemkin
United Hawaii 1790-1819
Kamehameha
Danish king resisted Germany during WWII
Christian X
Danish kings 1513-1972 were all named ___ or ___
Christian or Frederik
1842 treaty that fixed Maine and New Brunswick’s border
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
1400s Czech religious reformer burned at the stake
Jan Hus
Confederate capital
Richmond VA
Only Confederate state capital east of the Mississippi not captured by the Union
Tallahassee
AP reporter captured by Hezbollah and held in Beirut 1985-1991
Terry Anderson
Last Moorish kingdom of Spain
Granada
Moorish fortress in Granada
The Alhambra
Belgium king who exploited the Congo and was Marie Antoinette’s brother
Leopold II
Catholic banned book list
Index of Forbidden Books
Swedish UN Secretary General killed in 1961 plane crash, posthumous Nobel
Dag Hammarskjold
Norwegian, first UN Secretary General
Trygve Lie
black volcanic glass
obsidian
Queen of the Netherlands through WWI and WWII
Wilhelmina
“The Great Orator” from New Hampshire
Daniel Webster
Continent whose northernmost point is Cape York Peninsula
Australia
Postmaster general and movie censorship czar
Will Hays
California “pathfinder” west surveyor, army officer, first Republican POTUS nominee, Kit Carson scout
John C Fremont
Chile’s first head of state
Bernardo O’Higgins
Beautiful wife of Akhenaten, known for bust
Nefertiti
1714 King of England from Hanover, Germany
George I
Gunslinger killed in Deadwood SD in 1876
Wild Bill Hickok
Frontierswoman and Wild Bill Hickok’s girlfriend
Calamity Jane
Vice president of the Confederacy
Alexander Stephens
Treaty of Verdun (843) divided his empire
Charlemagne
British-then-Canadian oldest chartered company in the world
Hudson’s Bay Company
Nickname of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick
Barbarossa
Holy Roman Emperor drowned en route to a crusade
Barbarossa/Frederick
Legislature of France that met before the Revolution
Estates-General
Legislature of France that replaced the Estates-General
National Assembly
Father Michael McGivney founded it in New Haven in 1882
Knights of Columbus
French monk who led peasants in the early crusades
Peter the Hermit
Milton Obote was the president of this country until a coup in 1985
Uganda
First English translator of the Bible
Pre-Protestant critic of Catholicism
John Wycliffe
Socialist labor organizer ran for president
Eugene Debs
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire during WWI
Central Powers
Apache leader surrendered in Arizona, died in Fort Sills Oklahoma
Geronimo
Defeated Geronimo in Arizona
Nelson Miles
Louis XV mistress
Pompadour
Brunelleschi was a 1400s architect in this city
Florence
1854 act letting states decide slavery
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1820 act balancing slave and free states
Missouri Compromise
Little Giant of Illinois debated Lincoln and later lost to him in the 1860 election
Stephen Douglas
Headed Committee of Public Safety
Head of the Jacobins
Reign of Terror ended with his execution
Robespierre
French revolutionary journalist with a skin condition, stabbed in a bath
Marat
French Revolution extremist club named after convent where they met
Jacobins
HMS Victory was the flagship of
Lord Nelson
Statue of him in Trafalgar Square
Lord Nelson
Mistress of Lord Nelson
Lady Hamilton
One-eyed British admiral
Lord Nelson
How was Kublai Khan related to Genghis Khan?
grandson
First emperor of the Yuan Dynasty
Kublai Khan
Marco Polo visited China during the reign of ______
Kublai Khan
Nickname for Mongol army
Golden Horde
1859 raid at Harpers Ferry led by
John Brown
Song that became Battle Hymn of the Republic
John Brown’s Body
Union of Kalmar (1397) united these three countries
Sweden, Norway, Denmark
“Iron Chancellor” of Prussia/Germany late 1800s, blood and iron
Otto von Bismarck
Last emperor of Germany, last kaiser of Prussia, grandson of Victoria, fired Bismarck
Wilhelm II
1500s British circumnavigator
Sir Francis Drake
Helped England defeat the Spanish Armada at Cadiz
Sir Francis Drake
Name of Francis Drake’s ship
The Pelican -> The Golden Hind
King and intended victim of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot
James I
Battle of the Boyne in this country
Ireland
King defeated at the 1690 Battle of the Boyne
James II
William the Conqueror’s 1086 survey of England
Domesday Book
Island Napoleon was exiled on before returning to France in 1815
Elba
Island of Napoleon’s second exile
St Helena
1800s feminist editor of The Lily, known for pants
Amelia Bloomer
maker of railroad sleeping cars
Pullman
1894 railroad strike company
Pullman
Boy Scouts founder
Robert Baden Powell
Girl Scouts founder
Juliette Gordon Low
Wrote Battle Hymn of the Republic
Julia Ward Howe
She inspired Funny Girl
Fanny Brice
British Antarctic explorer whose ship got stuck in 1914
Shackleton
Shackleton’s ship
The Endurance
Philly site of 1774’s first Continental Congress
Carpenter’s Hall
Female evangelist, 1920s, fake kidnapping
Aimee Semple McPherson
Queen of Gospel
Mahalia Jackson
female president of Nicaragua 1990s
Violeta Chamorro
Nathaniel Hawthorne was friends with this president
Pierce