US History Flashcards
Pennsylvania flood of 1889
Johnstown flood
Party of the first two presidents
Federalist
He organized the U.S. Communist Party in 1919
John Reed
They participated in the “Kitchen Debate” - 1959
Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushschev
Father of the Great Awakening - fire and brimstone preacher
Jonathan Edwards
“The Great Compromiser;” he negotiated the Treaty of Ghent
Henry Clay
He funneled arms sales profits to Nicaraguan Contras
Oliver North
Rock concert at Bethyl - New York - 1969
Woodstock
Utah point where the transcontinental railroad met
Promontory Point
He launched first liquid fuel rocket - 1926
Robert Goddard
Tennessee senator who held organized crime hearings - 1951
Estes Kefauver
Transportation route - completed 1869
Transcontinental Railroad
Statue that was dedicated in 1886
Statue of Liberty
Base on the Moon - 1969
Tranquility Base
Land purchase - 1867 - a.k.a. Seward’s Folley
Alaska Territory (7.2M)
He was 14-year-old U.S. chess champion in 1957
Bobby Fischer
City of the Great Fire - 1871
Chicago
“Old Fuss and Feathers;” he captured Mexico City in 1847
Winfield Scott
Voting league established - 1928
League of Women Voters
US land purchase of 1803
Louisiana purchase (15M)
He established the first auto assembly line - 1913
Henry Ford
Man-made waterway that opened in 1825
Erie Canal
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) party
Prohibition party
William Howard Taft’s policy toward Latin America
Dollar Diplomacy
First legislature in Virginia - 1619
House of Burgesses
U.S. capital from 1775-1783
Philadelphia
What was the first permanent settlement in North America - 1565?
St. Augustine
Computer used by U.S. Census Bureau - 1951
UNIVAC
First computer - 1950
ENIAC
“The Pathfinder” who was governor of the Arizona Territory
John C. Fremont
Time magazine editor involved with Alger Hiss
Whitaker Chambers
1896 William Jennings Bryan Speech
“Cross of Gold”
Law that opened up governemnt files - 1966
Freedom of Information Act
Gun bill named for White House press secretary
Brady Bill
Northwest land dispute motto - 1844
“54-40 or fight”
1820 compromise that temporarily ended slavery dispute
Missouri Compromise
First president under the Articles of Confederation
John Hanson
Man given the correct answers to quiz show questions
Charles Van Doren
First U.S. nuclear powered submarine - 1954
Nautilus
Teddy Roosevelt’s independent party
Progressive or Bull Moose Party
1894 rail workers strike
Pullman Strike
Great Robbery of 1950
Brinks robbery
Political party established by Henry Clay and Daniel Webster
Whigs
News program established to cover Iran hostage crisis
Nightline
He directed the Watergate Hotel burglary
E. Howard Hunt
Pilgrim known as “Little Shrimp”
Miles Standish
He broke the sound barrier in 1947
Chuck Yeager
He raided Harpers’ Ferry - 1859
John Brown
Generation that followed baby boomers
“Generation X”
Puritan husband of Maria Cotton
Increase Mather
Chicago to L.A. highway; “Main Street of America”
Route 66
Pocahontas’ father
Powhattan
“Paper note party”
Greenbacks
Analyst who leaded the Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg
Number of days of the Iran hostage crisis
444
Boston hall - “The Cradle of Liberty”
Faneuil Hall
John Adams’ cousin and Boston Tea Party organizer
Samuel Adams
Army Chief of Staff - 1948
Omar Bradley (last five star general)
He led unsuccessful slave rebellion - 1831
Nat Turner
Nightclub comedian arrested for obscenity - 1961
Lenny Bruce
Wyoming oil leasing scandal - 1923
Teapot Dome Scandal
This became an American territory in 1978
American Samoa
He set around-the-world flying record - 1938
Howard Hughes
Pirate who aided in Battle of New Orleans
Jean Lafitte
Ads banned - 1971
Cigarette ads
Site where gold was discovered in1848
Sutter’s Mill
Tennessee frontiersman killed at Alamo
Davy Crockett
“Separate - but equal” Supreme Court Decision - 1896
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Man who burned the Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor - 1804
Stephen Decatur
He broadcast “The War of the Worlds” in 1938
Orson Welles
Mail delivery service - 1860-61
Pony Express
Baseball scandal 1919-20
“Black Sox” Scandal
Five-time Socialist presidential candidate - starting 1900
Eugene Debs
Bus boycott city - 1955
Montgomery
Langtree - Texas judge - “The law west of the Pecos”
Judge Roy Bean
Louisiana Purchase explorers of northern territory
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
“Saloon Smasher “ 1910
Carry Nation
Man who captured New Orleans in 1815
Andrew Jackson
Designer of the American Flag
Francis Hopkins
Territory bought from Mexico in 1853
Gadsden Purchase
He purchased Manhattan from the Indians
Peter Minuit
Louisiana Purchase explorer of southern territory
Zebulon Pike (Pike’s peak)
American Railway Union founder - 1893
Eugene Debs
Tombstone - AZ - marshall - 1881
Wyatt Earp
Colonial seamstress
Betsy Ross
Colonial silversmith - engraver and gunpowder maker
Paul Revere
Agency created to prevent unfair business practices - 1914
Federal Trade Commission
Ship that exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898
Maine
Colonial capital of Virginia
Williamsburg
Settlers trapped in Sierra Madres - 1846-47
Donner Party
Georgia founder
James Oglethorpe
Major police strike - 1919
Boston police strike
Oil artery finished in 1977
Alaska pipeline