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