US History Flashcards
1815 treaty that officially ended the War of 1812
Treaty of Ghent (Belgium)
Famous Tombstone - AZ - gunfight - 1881
Gunfight at the OK Corral
Knife inventor killed at the Alamo
Jim Bowie
Tennessee frontiersman killed at Alamo
Davy Crockett
Commander at the Alamo - 1836
William Travis
San Antonio shrine of Texas War of Independence
Alamo
It rang for the last time in 1835
Liberty Bell
He led unsuccessful slave rebellion - 1831
Nat Turner
Man-made waterway that opened in 1825
Erie Canal
Doctrine warning Europe not to interfere in Western Hemisphere - 1823
Monroe Doctrine
1820 compromise that temporarily ended slavery dispute
Missouri Compromise
Political party established by Henry Clay and Daniel Webster
Whigs
States fighting in the Toledo war
Ohio and Michigan
“Old Fuss and Feathers;” he captured Mexico City in 1847
Winfield Scott
“The Great Compromiser;” he negotiated the Treaty of Ghent
Henry Clay
Treaty that ended Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidgalgo
Pirate who aided in Battle of New Orleans
Jean Lafitte
Man who captured New Orleans in 1815
Andrew Jackson
Man who wrote Star Spangled Banner in 1814
Francis Scott Key
Fort bombed by British in 1814
Fort McHenry
Winner of the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813
Oliver Hazard Perry
Louisiana Purchase explorer of southern territory
Zebulon Pike (Pike’s peak)
William Clark’s fronteirsman brother
George Rogers Clark
Louisiana Purchase explorers of northern territory
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
“The Pathfinder” who was governor of the Arizona Territory
John C. Fremont
Man who burned the Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor - 1804
Stephen Decatur
Case declared unconstitutional by Supreme court in 1803
Marberry vs. Madison
US land purchase of 1803
Louisiana purchase (15M)
Territory of states in the Ohio Valley and northward
Northwest Territory
Supreme court decision - 1857 (a slave is not a citizen)
Dred Scott Decision
What was the first permanent settlement in North America - 1565?
St. Augustine
Laws enacted for segregation in the 1880s
Jim Crow laws
City of the Great Fire - 1871
Chicago
Railroads that met at Promontory Point
Union Pacific and Central Pacific
Utah point where the transcontinental railroad met
Promontory Point
Transportation route - completed 1869
Transcontinental Railroad
He instituted the national banking system
Salmon P. Chase
Land purchase - 1867 - a.k.a. Seward’s Folley
Alaska Territory (7.2M)
Congressional act giving land to settlers - 1862
Homestead Act
Pony Express Terminals
St. Joseph - MO and Sacramento - CA
Mail delivery service - 1860-61
Pony Express
“The boss of Tammany Hall” in the 1860s
(William Marcy) “Boss” Tweed
Northwest land dispute motto - 1844
“54-40 or fight”
He debated with Abe Lincoln - 1858
Stephen Douglas
Liquor tax rebellion of 1794
Whiskey Rebellion
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s preacher brother
Henry Ward Beecher
“Ignorant party”
Know Nothings
“Paper note party”
Greenbacks
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) party
Prohibition party
1854 act that nullified Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska act
Territory bought from Mexico in 1853
Gadsden Purchase
First U.S. steamship commander - he negotiated a trading treaty with Japan in 1853
Commodore Matthew Perry
Site where gold was discovered in1848
Sutter’s Mill
Settlers trapped in Sierra Madres - 1846-47
Donner Party
Birthplace of the Conestoga wagon
Lacaster - PA
Short-lived U.S. state in western Tennessee
Franklin
Langtree - Texas judge - “The law west of the Pecos”
Judge Roy Bean
He raided Harpers’ Ferry - 1859
John Brown
Colonial capital of Virginia
Williamsburg
Pocahontas’ father
Powhattan
He married Pocahontas
John Rolfe
Increase Mather’s son
Cotton Mather
Puritan husband of Maria Cotton
Increase Mather
Colonial silversmith - engraver and gunpowder maker
Paul Revere
Philadelphia founder
William Penn
Fort Orange location
Albany
Georgia founder
James Oglethorpe
Maryland founder
Cecil Calvert (second Lord Baltimore)
Dutch governor of New Netherlands
Peter Stuyvesant
Providence and Rhode Island founder
Roger Williams
He purchased Manhattan from the Indians
Peter Minuit
American Frigate launched in Boston - 1797
USS Constitution (Old Ironsides)
Virginia namesake
Queen Elizabeth I (The Virgin Queen)
Detroit founder
Antoine Cadillac
Virginia rebellion - 1676
Bacon’s rebellion
Boston to New York road established in 1672
Boston Post Road
New York City’s original name
New Amsterdam
Dutch settlement in the Americas - 1624
New Netherlands
First legislature in Virginia - 1619
House of Burgesses
Pilgrim known as “Little Shrimp”
Miles Standish
Plymouth father - elected Plymouth governor 30 times
William Bradford
First governor of Plymouth - died during first winter
John Carver
First pilgrim at Plymouth Rock and colonial barrel maker
John Alden
Massachusetts colony - 1620
Plymouth
Virginia colony - 1607
Jamestown
First English colony in the Americas - 1588
Roanoke Island
Man who claimed Virginia for England
Sir Walter Raleigh
First president under the Articles of Confederation
John Hanson
Feuding families of West Virginia and Kentucky - 1882
Hatfields and McCoys
Eli Whitney’s invention - 1791
Cotton gin
He founded the Bank of America - 1791
Alexander Hamilton
Document established in 1787
U.S. Constitution
Massachusetts farmers rebellion of 1786
Shays’ Rebellion