Week 14 Review Flashcards
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”
George Washington
Date of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleaon:
Louisiana Purchase
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
Who establised the first English colony in America?
Sir Walter Raleigh
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
Wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner” while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
“That man has an ax to grind.”
Benjamin Franklin
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays’ Rebellion
Event in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
“Don’t give up the ship!”
Who said it?
Captain James Lawrence
Battles of Lexington and Concord
April 19, 1775
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
Date of the First Continental Congress:
September 1774
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
First president of the United States:
George Washington
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
“Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner.”
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
Five causes of the Revolutionary War:
- trade and navigation laws
- stamp act
- Townshend Acts
- Boston Massacre
- the Five Intolerable Acts
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
Financed Columbus’s first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
Protector of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
Patrick Henry
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
Law-making branch:
Legislative
The agreement that established a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
Date of the Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
“Don’t give up the ship!”
What was the occasion?
naval battle in War of 1812
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:
minutemen
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
French nobleman who served in the American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
“the shot heard round the world”
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
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
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years’ War
Three branches of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
Treaty of Ghent
1814
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Who said it?
General William Prescott
Name the thirteen original colonies:
- Virginia
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Maryland
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
- Georgia
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
“Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner.”
What was the occasion?
Battle of New Orleans, in response to a boast from a British officer that he was going to eat his Christmas dinner in New Orleans.
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon’s Rebellion
