Week 21 Review Flashcards
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
American pioneer who conquered California:
John C. Fremont
“If I can ever hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
speaking about slavery
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
First president of the United States:
George Washington
Treaty of Ghent
1814
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
What was the occasion?
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
President of the Confederacy:
Jefferson Davis
“That man has an ax to grind.”
Benjamin Franklin
Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
Dred Scott
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
Date of the Battle of Gettysburg:
July 1-3, 1863
Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
Harriet Tubman
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
Date of the Battle at Fort Sumter:
April 12, 1861
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
Date of the Gold Rush:
1849
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
“the shot heard round the world”
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
Fort Sumter
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years’ War
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
Wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner” while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
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
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
War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
“Don’t give up the ship!”
What was the occasion?
naval battle in War of 1812
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
Union general who captured and burned Atlanta:
William T. Sherman
“Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner.”
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
Date of The Mexican War:
1846-1848
Battle that changed the course of the Civil War:
Battle of Gettysburg
Place where Lee surrendered to Grant:
Appomattox Courthouse
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleaon:
Louisiana Purchase
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
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
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
American general who defeated Santa Anna:
Zachary Taylor
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
