Week 20 Review Flashcards
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
Date of The Mexican War:
1846-1848
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
American general who defeated Santa Anna:
Zachary Taylor
Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress’ attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
Five causes of the Revolutionary War:
- trade and navigation laws
- stamp act
- Townshend Acts
- Boston Massacre
- the Five Intolerable Acts
Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
Harriet Tubman
Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
Dred Scott
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:
the Gadsden Purchase
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
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
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
Date of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
Treaty of Ghent
1814
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
the Underground Railroad
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
“Don’t give up the ship!”
Who said it?
Captain James Lawrence
“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.
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
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Who said it?
General William Prescott
“Don’t give up the ship!”
What was the occasion?
naval battle in War of 1812
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the union fleet:
Merrimac
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
January 1, 1863
American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
“If I can ever hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
speaking about slavery
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
First Continental Congress:
September 1774
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
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
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
Fort Sumter
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
“Be sure you are right, then go ahead.”
Davy Crockett
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
“the shot heard round the world”
Union ironclad that defeated the confederate ironclad:
Monitor
Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis
