Week 15 Review Flashcards
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
French nobleman who served in the American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
Three branches of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
Protector of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
Name the thirteen original colonies:
- Virginia
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Maryland
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
- Georgia
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
“Don’t give up the ship!”
What was the occasion?
naval battle in War of 1812
Five causes of the Revolutionary War:
- trade and navigation laws
- stamp act
- Townshend Acts
- Boston Massacre
- the Five Intolerable Acts
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
First president of the United States:
George Washington
Wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner” while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
Date of the First Continental Congress:
September 1774
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
Date of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Event in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
Patrick Henry
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”
George Washington
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
Treaty of Ghent
1814
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
Who establised the first English colony in America?
Sir Walter Raleigh
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
The agreement that established a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:
minutemen
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years’ War
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon’s Rebellion
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
Law-making branch:
Legislative
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays’ Rebellion
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
“the shot heard round the world”
Date of the Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
“Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner.”
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress’ attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
“Don’t give up the ship!”
Who said it?
Captain James Lawrence
“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.”
Daniel Webster
“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.
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
Foreign policy that forbade European countries from establishing colonies in North or South America and told them not to meddle in American affairs:
the Monroe Doctrine
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
What was the occasion?
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
“That man has an ax to grind.”
Benjamin Franklin
Battles of Lexington and Concord
April 19, 1775
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Who said it?
General William Prescott
Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
Law that inducted Maine into the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state and said no slavery will be allowed in the Louisiana Territory above the 36° 30° parallel:
the Missouri Compromise
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleon:
Louisiana Purchase
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
Financed Columbus’s first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
