Week 18 Review Flashcards
1
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The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
A
Nathan Hale
2
Q
Inventor of the cotton gin:
A
Eli Whitney
3
Q
French nobleman who served int he American army:
A
Marquis de Lafayette
4
Q
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress’ attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
A
the Nullification Act
5
Q
Father of the Constitution:
A
James Madison
6
Q
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
A
George Washington
7
Q
Chief frustration of American colonists:
A
taxation without representation
8
Q
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
What was the occasion?
A
naval battle with British
9
Q
American general who defeated Santa Anna:
A
Zachary Taylor
10
Q
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
A
Pilgrims
11
Q
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleaon:
A
Louisiana Purchase
12
Q
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
A
Battle of New Orleans
13
Q
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Who said it?
A
General William Prescott
14
Q
“Don’t give up the ship!”
What was the occasion?
A
naval battle in War of 1812
15
Q
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
A
Boston Massacre
16
Q
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
Who said it?
A
Andrew Jackson
17
Q
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
A
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
18
Q
Five causes of the Revolutionary War:
A
- trade and navigation laws
- stamp act
- Townshend Acts
- Boston Massacre
- the Five Intolerable Acts
19
Q
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
What was the occasion?
A
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
20
Q
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
A
Captian John Smith
21
Q
Date of the Gold Rush:
A
1849
22
Q
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
Who said it?
A
John Paul Jones
23
Q
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
Who said it?
A
Oliver Perry
24
Q
System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
A
the Underground Railroad
25
United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
26
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
27
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
28
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
29
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
30
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment's notice:
minutemen
31
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
32
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
33
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
34
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
35
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
36
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
37
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
38
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
39
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
40
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars' worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
41
Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
Battle of the Alamo
42
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
43
Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:
the Gadsden Purchase
44
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
45
Financed Columbus's first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
46
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
47
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
48
Treaty of Ghent
1814
49
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
50
"Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union."
John Quincy Adams
51
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
52
Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
53
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
54
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
55
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
56
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
57
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years' War
58
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
59
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
George Washington
60
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
61
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
62
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
63
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
64
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Nathan Hale
65
"That man has an ax to grind."
Benjamin Franklin
66
Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
67
Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
68
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
69
Law-making branch:
Legislative
70
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
71
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
72
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
73
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
74
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
75
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
76
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon's Rebellion
77
Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
78
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
79
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
80
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
81
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
82
"Don't give up the ship!"
Who said it?
Captain James Lawrence
83
"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.
84
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
85
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
86
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
87
Wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
88
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
89
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
90
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry
91
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
92
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
93
War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
94
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
95
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
96
Date of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
97
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
"the shot heard round the world"
98
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
99
"Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
100
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
Daniel Webster
101
"Be sure you are right, then go ahead."
Davy Crockett
102
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
103
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
104
American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
105
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
106
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
107
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
108
American pioneer who conquered California:
John C. Fremont
109
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
110
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
111
General of the Mexican army:
Santa Anna
112
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
113
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
114
Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
the Gold Rush
115
Bill that inducted California as a free state and allowed the Utah and New Mexico territories to choose whether or not they would be free or slave states:
the Compromise of 1850
116
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
117
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
118
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
119
Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
120
First president of the United States:
George Washington
121
Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
122
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
123
Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
Harriet Tubman
124
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
125
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
126
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
127
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
128
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
129
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 Lousiana Territory avoe the 36° 30° parallel:
the Missouri Compromise
130
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
131
Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
132
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
133
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
134
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
135
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays' Rebellion
136
Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis
137
First Continental Congress:
September 1774
138
Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the U.S.:
Daniel Webster
139
Date of The Mexican War:
1846-1848
140
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
