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
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays’ Rebellion
Wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner” while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army:
Robert E. Lee
Date of the Gold Rush:
1849
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
“That man has an ax to grind.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner.”
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
First president of the United States:
George Washington
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleaon:
Louisiana Purchase
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
States int he Confederacy:
- South Carolina
- Mississippi
- Floria
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Louisiana
- Texas
- Arkansas
- North Carlolina
- Virginia
- Tennessee
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”
George Washington
Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the U.S.:
Daniel Webster
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
Law-making branch:
Legislative
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
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
Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the Confederate States:
Emancipation Proclamation
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:
minutemen
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
American pioneer who conquered California:
John C. Fremont
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
Date of the Battle at Fort Sumter:
April 12, 1861
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
President of the Confederacy:
Jefferson Davis
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
Name the thirteen original colonies:
- Virginia
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Maryland
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
- Georgia
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years’ War
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
Patrick Henry
United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
What was the occasion?
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
Battle of the Alamo
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
Financed Columbus’s first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
General of the Mexican army:
Santa Anna
“If I can ever hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard!
Who said it?
Abraham Lincoln
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon’s Rebellion
First state to secede from the Union:
South Carolina
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
“Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union.”
John Quincy Adams
Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
the Gold Rush
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
Confederacy
“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.”
Daniel Webster
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
