Week 10 Review Flashcards
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Who said it?
General William Prescott
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
“That man has an ax to grind.”
Benjamin Franklin
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon’s Rebellion
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years’ War
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
Patrick Henry
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
Name the thirteen original colonies:
- Virginia
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Maryland
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
- Georgia
Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
First Continental Congress:
September 1774
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
Financed Columbus’s first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:
minutemen
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
“the shot heard round the world”
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
Five causes of the Revolutionary War:
- trade and navigation laws
- stamp act
- Townshend Acts
- Boston Massacre
- the Five Intolerable Acts
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
