J8 U.S. History Exam Study Guide Flashcards
What female monarch sponsored Christopher Columbus’s exploration to go to the East Indies by going West?
Queen Isabella.
What conquistador took control over the Incan empire in Peru?
Francisco Pizarro.
What person told Columbus that he had discovered a “New World” instead of finding the East Indies?
Amerigo Vespucci.
What Viking discovered the “New World” before Columbus but wasn’t given credit because he didn’t inhabit it?
Leif Ericson.
What man saved Jamestown by saying,”He that does not work does not eat”.
John Smith.
What pastor during the Great Awakening preached “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”.
Jonathan Edwards.
What evangelist during the Great Awakening preached to a crowd of 20,000 people without a megaphone?
George Whitefield.
Which King was America’s last since the War for Independence?
George III.
Who wrote about the common sense thing to do was to separate from the British?
Thomas Paine.
What speaker said, “Give me liberty or give me death!”
Patrick Henry.
Who is a famous inventor, the original author of the Declaration of Independence, and soon to be president of the United States of America?
Thomas Jefferson.
Who was a schoolmaster that later became America’s first spy and said, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”?
Nathan Hale.
What British General lost and surrendered at Yorktown?
General Cornwallis.
What level-headed American General was leader of the Continental army and was soon to be a the first president of the United States of America?
George Washington.
What Bible scholar found the Bill of Rights, wrote some of the Constitution and The Federalist Papers and part of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, and one day become president?
James Madison.
Who was a lawyer, and was to become the second president, and was a peace talker for the Treaty of Paris?
John Adams.
What 2 men were sent, by President Jefferson, on expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase?
Lewis and Clark.
What Shoshone Indian woman came along on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to guide them?
Sacagawea.
Who was the war hero of the Battle of New Orleans and later president?
Andrew Jackson.
Who was the son of John Adams, became president, and ran for Congress?
John Quincy Adams.
Who was the Speaker of the House and saved America from a Civil War three times, and became president.
Henry Clay.
Who was a Senator for Congress and attacked nullification point by point?
Daniel Webster.
Who was Monroe’s Secretary of War, became Andrew Jackson’s Vice President, and became leading defender of states’ rights?
John C. Calhoun.
What president was the hero at the Battle of Tippecanoe, had the longest inauguration speech, and the first to die in office?
William Henry Harrison.
What woodsman opened up the lands of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee?
Daniel Boone.
Who invented the telegraph and Morse Code
Samuel F. B. Morse.
Who invented the steel plow?
John Deere.
Who invented the mechanical reaper?
Cyrus McCormick.
Who invented the cotton gin and made interchangeable parts?
Eli Whitney.
What Mexican president turned crazy and destroyed the Texans at the Alamo?
Santa Anna.
What American commander made the Bowie knife and served in the fight of the Alamo?
Jim Bowie.
What legendary Tennesseean became one of the men in charge of the Alamo.
Davy Crockett.
Who was the main commander of the Alamo?
William Travis.
What commander helped Jim Bowie fight in the Alamo?
Sam Houston.
What mechanic found gold while digging deeper in the channel?
James W. Marshall.
What president successfully completed Manifest Destiny and was known as the Manifest Destiny President?
James K. Polk.
What general had a nickname “Old Rough and Ready” and served in the Mexican War; he also become president but died in office?
Zachary Taylor.
What Italian explorer thought he had made it to the East Indies in 1492?
Christopher Columbus.
