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