Week 20 Review Flashcards
1
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Date of Boston Massacre:
A
1770
2
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“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
What was the occasion?
A
Battle of Bunker HIll
3
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Date of The Mexican War:
A
1846-1848
4
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The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
A
Nathan Hale
5
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American general who defeated Santa Anna:
A
Zachary Taylor
6
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Those who opposed slavery:
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abolitionists
7
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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
8
Q
Five causes of the Revolutionary War:
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- trade and navigation laws
- stamp act
- Townshend Acts
- Boston Massacre
- the Five Intolerable Acts
9
Q
Inventor of the telegraph:
A
Samuel Morse
10
Q
Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
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Harriet Tubman
11
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Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
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Dred Scott
12
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Head of the Supreme Court:
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Chief Justice
13
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Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
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Paul Revere and William Dawes
14
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Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:
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the Gadsden Purchase
15
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American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
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John Paul Jones
16
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French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
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Jacques Cartier
17
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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:
A
the Compromise of 1850
18
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King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
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Henry the Navigator
19
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Date of the Louisiana Purchase
A
1803
20
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Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
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Tecumseh
21
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Treaty of Ghent
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1814
22
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Father of the Declaration of Independence
A
Thomas Jefferson
23
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System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
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the Underground Railroad
24
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Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
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September 3, 1783
25
Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
26
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
27
"Don't give up the ship!"
Who said it?
Captain James Lawrence
28
"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.
29
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
30
"I have not yet begun to fight."
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
31
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
Who said it?
General William Prescott
32
"Don't give up the ship!"
What was the occasion?
naval battle in War of 1812
33
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
34
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
35
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
36
Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the union fleet:
Merrimac
37
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
38
Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
January 1, 1863
39
American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
40
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
41
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
42
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
43
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
44
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
45
"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
speaking about slavery
46
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
47
First Continental Congress:
September 1774
48
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
49
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
50
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
51
"To the victors belong the spoils."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
52
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
53
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
54
Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
Fort Sumter
55
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
56
Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
57
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
58
"Be sure you are right, then go ahead."
Davy Crockett
59
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
"the shot heard round the world"
60
Union ironclad that defeated the confederate ironclad:
Monitor
61
Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis
62
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
63
"I have not yet begun to fight."
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
64
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays' Rebellion
65
Wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
66
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
67
Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
68
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
69
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
70
Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army:
Robert E. Lee
71
Date of the Gold Rush:
1849
72
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
73
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
74
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
75
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
76
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
77
"That man has an ax to grind."
Benjamin Franklin
78
"Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
79
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
80
War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
81
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
82
First president of the United States:
George Washington
83
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleaon:
Louisiana Purchase
84
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
85
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
86
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
87
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
88
Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
89
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
90
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
George Washington
91
Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the U.S.:
Daniel Webster
92
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Nathan Hale
93
Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
94
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
95
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
96
Law-making branch:
Legislative
97
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
98
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
99
Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the Confederate States:
Emancipation Proclamation
100
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
101
Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
102
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
103
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
104
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
105
French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
106
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
107
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars' worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
108
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment's notice:
minutemen
109
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
110
American pioneer who conquered California:
John C. Fremont
111
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
112
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
113
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
114
Date of the Battle at Fort Sumter:
April 12, 1861
115
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
116
President of the Confederacy:
Jefferson Davis
117
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
118
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
119
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
120
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
121
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
122
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
123
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
124
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
125
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
126
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
127
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
128
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
129
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years' War
130
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
131
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry
132
United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
133
"To the victors belong the spoils."
What was the occasion?
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
134
Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
Battle of the Alamo
135
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
136
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
137
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
138
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
139
Financed Columbus's first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
140
General of the Mexican army:
Santa Anna
141
"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
Who said it?
Abraham Lincoln
142
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
143
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon's Rebellion
144
First state to secede from the Union:
South Carolina
145
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
146
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
147
"Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union."
John Quincy Adams
148
Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
the Gold Rush
149
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
150
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
151
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
152
Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
Confederacy
153
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
Daniel Webster
154
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
