Knowledge of Time, Continuity, and Change Flashcards
Competency 2
One of the oldest civilizations formed dynasties beginning with Shang Dynasty. Influenced government and politics, culture, warfare, art, forms of writing, religion, and architecture.
China
Influenced government, religion, writing (hieroglyphics), irrigation of crops, warfare tactics, art, architecture and construction techniques (pyramids), mathematics (decimal system, medicine, and technology.
Egypt
Who is responsible for modern science?
Galileo Galilei
Who made four voyages to West Indies and Caribbean Islands?
Christopher Columbus
Who explored Florida in 15 13 looking for the fountain of youth?
Juan Ponce de Leon
Origin of organized societies. First civilization to gather and live together in large communities/cities. Created a system of government and learned to write.
Mesopotamia
Influences politics and forms of government (monarchy and republics), literature and the arts, architecture, warfare, society, engineering, and technology.
Rome
Influenced present day language, the arts and sciences, education, philosophy, and politics. Origin of the Olympic Games.
Greece
Who explored to Hudson Bay, Hudson River, and Hudson Strait?
Henry Hudson
Who explored the eastern coast of north America and the coast of the St. Lawrence river to Lake Huron and reached Lake Champlain?
Samuel de Champlain
Paper products had to come from England with a government stamp on them and the placed a tax on these items.
Sam Adams and Patrick coined the phrase “taxation without representation should not be tolerated”
The Stamp Act 1765
Who was the first Englishman to sail around the world. Defeated the Spanish Armada. Claimed California for England.
Sir Frances Drake
Who was the third president of the United States. A founding father. Author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Who was and outspoken patriot during the American Revolution. Father of the American Revolution designed and carried out the Boston Tea Party Incident?
Samuel Adams
Who defined gravity and the laws of motion?
Sir Isaac Newton
Who was the patriot, writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, diplomat, and founding father who signed the Declaration of Independence, Treaty of Paris, and the United States Constitution?
Benjamin Franklin
Who was the King of Macedonia in 336 B.C. conquered the Persian Empire. Founded the city of Alexandria in Egypt. Created a massive empire and restored order in Ancient Greece?
Alexander the Great
In what war did the USA try to help South Vietnam gain control of communist North Vietnam?
Vietnam War
In what war did the USA come to help South Korea unite with North Korea?
Korean War
In what war was there two opposing forces, The Allies - Great Britain, USA, Russia, France and China; The Axis- Germany, Italy, and Japan? The USA was apart of the Allies because of Japans attacks on Pearl Harbor. 1939-1945 Allied powers were victorious.
World War II
A conflict between Austria/Hungary and Serbia caused this war from 1914-1918. Forming two opposing military alliances. Allied Powers: Russia, UK, France, Canada, Australia, Italy, Japan, Portugal, and the USA. Central Powers: Germany, Austria/Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria. Allied Powers were victorious.
World War I
Required colonist to provide living quarters for British Soldiers.
The Quartering Act of 1765
British Government official Charles Townshend taxed the colonist for tea, glass, lead, and paper. The taxes of the people in England were decreased.
The Townshend Acts of 1767
Colonist could only purchase tea that was sold by the British East India Company and taxed by the British government.
The Tea Act of 1773
On December 16, 1773 Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and 80 other men dressed up as Native Americans and threw all the tea from 3 British ships in protest of the Tea Act of 1773
The Boston Tea Party
What war freed America from British control from 1775-1783?
The American Revolutionary War
Who were the rebel who fought against Britain?
Patriots
Who were the colonists who maintained their allegiance to British Rule?
Loyalists
What were British Soldiers called?
Red Coats
What happened on the night of April 18th, 1775?
Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride
Who circumnavigated the globe with five ships and 270 men from 1520-1521?
Ferdinand Magellan
Who pioneered sponsored exploration and cartography in 1515?
Prince Henry the Navigator
Who led the expedition across panama and found the Pacific Ocean?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Who was the first to travel to India and around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope?
Vasco de Gama
Whose voyages gave England the claim to North America and paved the way for the settlement of the English colonies in the early 1600’s
John Cabot
Who sailed to the West Indies and South America
Amergio Vespucci
Who was the astronomer who could predict lunar eclipse, Inventor of irrigation systems for crops, a mathematician who wrote almanacs, and the son of a slave?
Benjamin Banneker
What was the historic booklet/pamphlet that inspired the colonist to seek freedom from British rule?
Common Sense
In 1774 after the tea incident King George closed the Boston Harbor for any business. The King reinforced the Quartering Act.
The Intolerable Acts
A group of Patriots formed by Paul Revere to retaliate against King George and Britain
Sons of Liberty
In March of 1770 British soldiers opened fire on colonist and killed five of the colonist including Crispus Attucks.
The Boston Massacre
King George forbid colonists from settling past the Appalachian Mountains
The Royal Proclamation of1763
What war ended French political and cultural influence in North America and led to the revolutionary war?
The French Indian War
Equality for African American in Schools, public places, and places of employment
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Who was a patriotic founding father, Governor of Virginia and said “Give me liberty or give me death”?
Patrick Henry
British writer who influenced the Declaration of independence, state constitution, and the United States Constitution.
John Locke
First Astronomer to place the sun as the center of the universe
Nicolaus Copernicus
Who explored the American Southwest and opened up the southwest to Spanish colonization?
Francisco Vazquez de Cornando
Who explored the American southeast and discovered the Mississippi River?
Hernando de Soto
Traveled St. Lawrence River
Jacques Cartier
Conquered Incas of Peru and added lands to the Spanish empire
Fancisco Pizarro
Conuered Aztecs in Mexico
Hernando Cortez
Transition from manual labor to the use of machines.
Industrial Revolution
First major battle of the American revolutionary war. British won the battle but lost a lot of men and weaponary.
The Battle at Bunker Hill
This document laid the foundation of a new government and severed ties to Great Britain.
The Declaration of Independence