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