Week 12 Review Flashcards
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
Battles of Lexington and Concord
April 19, 1775
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon’s Rebellion
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:
minutemen
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
Law-making branch:
Legislative
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
Second Continental Congress date:
May 1775
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays’ Rebellion
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
Three branches of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
French nobleman who served in the American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Who said it?
General William Prescott
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years’ War
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
Who establised the first English colony in America
Sir Walter Raleigh
Event in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
First president of the United States:
George Washington
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
“the shot heard round the world”
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
“That man has an ax to grind.”
Benjamin Franklin
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
Financed Columbus’s first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
Five causes of the Revolutionary War:
- trade and navigation laws
- stamp act
- Townshend Acts
- Boston Massacre
- the Five Intolerable Acts
The agreement that established a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
Name the thirteen original colonies:
- Virginia
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Maryland
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
- Georgia
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
First Continental Congress Date:
September 1774
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
Patrick Henry
Protector of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
