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