Week 13 Review Flashcards
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
Second Continental Congress date:
May 1775
Who establised the first English colony in America?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
First Continental Congress date:
September 1774
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
Event in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
Law-making branch:
Legislative
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
Name the thirteen original colonies:
- Virginia
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Maryland
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
- Georgia
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
Protector of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
Three branches of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays’ Rebellion
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleon:
Louisiana Purchase
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”
George Washington
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon’s Rebellion
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
Date of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
French nobleman who served in the American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
Patrick Henry
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
Five causes of the Revolutionary War:
- trade and navigation laws
- stamp act
- Townshend Acts
- Boston Massacre
- the Five Intolerable Acts
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
Battles of Lexington and Concord
April 19, 1775
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:
minutemen
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
“the shot heard round the world”
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
“That man has an ax to grind.”
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
Financed Columbus’s first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
First president of the United States:
George Washington
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years’ War
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Who said it?
General William Prescott
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
The agreement that established a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
