Week 15 Review Flashcards
1
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British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
A
Cornwallis
2
Q
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
A
Amerigo Vespucci
3
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French nobleman who served in the American army:
A
Marquis de Lafayette
4
Q
Three branches of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
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Legislative, Executive, Judicial
5
Q
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
A
Yorktown
6
Q
Protector of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
A
Oliver Cromwell
7
Q
Date of the Constitution:
A
March 4, 1789
8
Q
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
A
Puritans
9
Q
Name the thirteen original colonies:
A
- Virginia
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Maryland
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
- Georgia
10
Q
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
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September 3, 1783
11
Q
“Don’t give up the ship!”
What was the occasion?
A
naval battle in War of 1812
12
Q
Five causes of the Revolutionary War:
A
- trade and navigation laws
- stamp act
- Townshend Acts
- Boston Massacre
- the Five Intolerable Acts
13
Q
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
A
Mason-Dixon Line
14
Q
First lasting English colony:
A
Jamestown
15
Q
First president of the United States:
A
George Washington
16
Q
Wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner” while held captive on a British ship:
A
Francis Scott Key
17
Q
French and Indian War dates:
A
1754-1763
18
Q
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
A
Supreme Court
19
Q
Date of the First Continental Congress:
A
September 1774
20
Q
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
A
Battle of Bunker Hill
21
Q
Date of the Louisiana Purchase
A
1803
22
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Date of Boston Massacre:
A
1770
23
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Father of the Declaration of Independence
A
Thomas Jefferson
24
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Event in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
A
Boston Massacre
25
Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
26
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry
27
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
28
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
29
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
30
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Nathan Hale
31
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
32
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
33
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
34
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
35
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
36
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
37
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
George Washington
38
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
39
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
40
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
41
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
42
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
43
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
44
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
45
Treaty of Ghent
1814
46
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
47
Who establised the first English colony in America?
Sir Walter Raleigh
48
"I have not yet begun to fight."
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
49
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
50
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
51
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
52
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
53
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
54
The agreement that established a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
55
Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
56
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
57
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
58
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment's notice:
minutemen
59
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years' War
60
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon's Rebellion
61
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
62
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars' worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
63
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
64
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
65
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
66
Law-making branch:
Legislative
67
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
68
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
69
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
70
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
71
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
72
"To the victors belong the spoils."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
73
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays' Rebellion
74
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
75
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
"the shot heard round the world"
76
Date of the Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
77
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
78
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
79
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
80
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
81
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
82
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
83
"Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
84
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
85
Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
86
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress' attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
87
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
88
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
89
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
90
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
91
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
92
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
93
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
94
"Don't give up the ship!"
Who said it?
Captain James Lawrence
95
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
Daniel Webster
96
"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.
97
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
98
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
99
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
100
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
101
United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
102
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
103
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
104
"To the victors belong the spoils."
What was the occasion?
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
105
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
106
"That man has an ax to grind."
Benjamin Franklin
107
Battles of Lexington and Concord
April 19, 1775
108
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
109
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
110
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
Who said it?
General William Prescott
111
Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
112
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
113
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
114
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
115
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
116
"I have not yet begun to fight."
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
117
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleon:
Louisiana Purchase
118
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
119
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
120
Financed Columbus's first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
121
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
