Week 19 Review Flashcards
1
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“Don’t give up the ship!”
What was the occasion?
A
naval battle in War of 1812
2
Q
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
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Roanoke
3
Q
War between France and England in America:
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the French and Indian War
4
Q
United States national motto and meaning:
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E pluribus unum- One out of many
5
Q
Three branches of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
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Legislative, Executive, Judicial
6
Q
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
A
Henry the Navigator
7
Q
President of the Confederacy:
A
Jefferson Davis
8
Q
Treaty of Ghent
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1814
9
Q
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
A
Samoset and Squanto
10
Q
“Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union.”
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John Quincy Adams
11
Q
Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
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Dred Scott
12
Q
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
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First Continental Congress
13
Q
Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
A
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
14
Q
“Don’t give up the ship!”
Who said it?
A
Captain James Lawrence
15
Q
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
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Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
16
Q
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
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John Paul Jones
17
Q
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
What was the occasion?
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Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
18
Q
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
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Captian John Smith
19
Q
First state to secede from the Union:
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South Carolina
20
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General at Bunker HIll:
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William Prescott
21
Q
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
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President
22
Q
Date of the Declaration of Independence
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July 4, 1776
23
Q
War between France and England in Europe:
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the Seven Years’ War
24
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Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
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Confederacy
25
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
George Washington
26
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
27
Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
Battle of the Alamo
28
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 above the 36° 30° parallel:
the Missouri Compromise
29
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
30
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon's Rebellion
31
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
32
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
33
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
34
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
35
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
36
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
37
"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
Who said it?
Abraham Lincoln
38
Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
the Gold Rush
39
Riders sent to warn Charlestown and Lexington of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
40
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
41
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
42
American pioneer who conquered California:
John C. Fremont
43
First president of the United States:
George Washington
44
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
45
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
46
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
47
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
48
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
49
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
50
The agreement that established a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
51
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
52
Date of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
53
Date of The Mexican War:
1846-1848
54
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
55
"I have not yet begun to fight."
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
56
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry
57
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
58
Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
59
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
60
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
61
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
Who said it?
General William Prescott
62
Protector of England who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
63
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
64
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
65
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
66
Date of the Gold Rush:
1849
67
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
68
Battles of Lexington and Concord
April 19, 1775
69
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
70
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleon:
Louisiana Purchase
71
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
72
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
"the shot heard round the world"
73
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
74
"I have not yet begun to fight."
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
75
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
76
"That man has an ax to grind."
Benjamin Franklin
77
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
78
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
79
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
80
Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
81
Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
Fort Sumter
82
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
83
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress' attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
84
War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
85
"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.
86
General of the Mexican army:
Santa Anna
87
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
88
"Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
89
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
90
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
91
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays' Rebellion
92
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
93
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
94
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
95
"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
speaking about slavery
96
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
97
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
Daniel Webster
98
Date of the First Continental Congress:
September 1774
99
Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
100
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
101
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
102
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
103
"Be sure you are right, then go ahead."
Davy Crockett
104
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
105
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
106
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars' worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
107
American general who defeated Santa Anna:
Zachary Taylor
108
Financed Columbus's first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
109
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
110
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
111
French nobleman who served in the American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
112
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
113
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
114
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
115
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
116
"To the victors belong the spoils."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
117
System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
the Underground Railroad
118
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
119
Who established the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
120
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
121
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
122
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
123
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
124
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Nathan Hale
125
States int he Confederacy:
1. South Carolina
2. Mississippi
3. Floria
4. Alabama
5. Georgia
6. Louisiana
7. Texas
8. Arkansas
9. North Carlolina
10. Virginia
11. Tennessee
126
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment's notice:
minutemen
127
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
128
Law-making branch:
Legislative
129
Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis
130
Event in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
131
Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:
the Gadsden Purchase
132
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
133
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
134
American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
135
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
136
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
137
Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
138
Date of the Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
139
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
140
Date of the Battle at Fort Sumter:
April 12, 1861
141
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
142
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
143
Wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
144
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
145
Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
Harriet Tubman
146
Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the U.S.:
Daniel Webster
147
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
148
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
149
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
