Week 13 Review Flashcards by Mrs. Downie

The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:

Lief Ericson

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Second Continental Congress date:

May 1775

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Who establised the first English colony in America?

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:

William Henry Harrison

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Head of the law-enforcing branch:

President

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Head of the law-interpreting branch:

Supreme Court

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First Continental Congress date:

September 1774

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Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:

Paul Revere and William Dawes

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Event in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:

Boston Massacre

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Law-making branch:

Legislative

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Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:

September 3, 1783

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Name the thirteen original colonies:

Virginia
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New York
Maryland
Connecticut
Rhode Island
North Carolina
South Carolina
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Georgia

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Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:

Second Treaty of Paris

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General who captured Quebec:

James Wolfe

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Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

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Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:

Boston Tea Party

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Protector of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:

Oliver Cromwell

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Three branches of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:

Legislative, Executive, Judicial

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“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

Nathan Hale

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Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:

Shays’ Rebellion

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English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:

John Cabot

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Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleon:

Louisiana Purchase

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War between France and England in America:

the French and Indian War

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“I have not yet begun to fight.”

What was the occasion?

naval battle with British

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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:

1. trade and navigation laws 2. stamp act 3. Townshend Acts 4. Boston Massacre 5. 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