Week 14 Review Flashcards
1
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Land granted to William Penn:
A
Pennsylvania
2
Q
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”
A
George Washington
3
Q
Date of the Louisiana Purchase
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1803
4
Q
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleaon:
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Louisiana Purchase
5
Q
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:
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Manhattan Island
6
Q
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
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Samoset and Squanto
7
Q
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
A
Benedict Arnold
8
Q
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
A
War of 1812
9
Q
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
A
The House of Burgesses
10
Q
Who establised the first English colony in America?
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Sir Walter Raleigh
11
Q
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
Who said it?
A
John Paul Jones
12
Q
Wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner” while held captive on a British ship:
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Francis Scott Key
13
Q
“That man has an ax to grind.”
A
Benjamin Franklin
14
Q
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
A
Shays’ Rebellion
15
Q
Event in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
A
Boston Massacre
16
Q
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
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John Cabot
17
Q
“Don’t give up the ship!”
Who said it?
A
Captain James Lawrence
18
Q
Battles of Lexington and Concord
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April 19, 1775
19
Q
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
A
Nathan Hale
20
Q
Framework for the government of the United States:
A
the Constitution
21
Q
Inventor of the cotton gin:
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Eli Whitney
22
Q
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
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John Jay
23
Q
Date of the First Continental Congress:
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September 1774
24
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Date of Boston Tea Party:
A
1773
25
"I have not yet begun to fight."
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
26
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
27
First president of the United States:
George Washington
28
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
29
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
30
"Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
31
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
32
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
33
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
34
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
35
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
36
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
37
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
38
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
39
Financed Columbus's first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
40
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
41
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
42
Protector of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
43
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
44
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
45
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
46
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
47
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry
48
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
49
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
50
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
51
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
52
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
53
Law-making branch:
Legislative
54
The agreement that established a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
55
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
56
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
57
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
58
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
59
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
60
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
61
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
62
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
63
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
64
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
65
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
66
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
67
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
68
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
69
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
70
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
71
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
72
Date of the Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
73
"Don't give up the ship!"
What was the occasion?
naval battle in War of 1812
74
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
75
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
76
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
77
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
78
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
79
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
80
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
81
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
82
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
83
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
84
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
85
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
86
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
87
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment's notice:
minutemen
88
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
89
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
90
French nobleman who served in the American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
91
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
"the shot heard round the world"
92
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
93
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
94
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
95
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
96
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
97
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
98
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
99
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
100
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
101
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
102
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years' War
103
Three branches of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
104
United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
105
Treaty of Ghent
1814
106
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
Who said it?
General William Prescott
107
Name the thirteen original colonies:
1. Virginia
2. Massachusetts
3. New Hampshire
4. New York
5. Maryland
6. Connecticut
7. Rhode Island
8. North Carolina
9. South Carolina
10. New Jersey
11. Pennsylvania
12. Delaware
13. Georgia
108
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
109
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
110
"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.
111
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon's Rebellion
