Week 21 Review Flashcards
1
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Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
A
Puritans
2
Q
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
A
Benedict Arnold
3
Q
American pioneer who conquered California:
A
John C. Fremont
4
Q
“If I can ever hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
A
speaking about slavery
5
Q
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
Who said it?
A
Oliver Perry
6
Q
First president of the United States:
A
George Washington
7
Q
Treaty of Ghent
A
1814
8
Q
Framework for the government of the United States:
A
the Constitution
9
Q
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
What was the occasion?
A
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
10
Q
President of the Confederacy:
A
Jefferson Davis
11
Q
“That man has an ax to grind.”
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Benjamin Franklin
12
Q
Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
A
Dred Scott
13
Q
First lasting English colony:
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Jamestown
14
Q
Date of the Battle of Gettysburg:
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July 1-3, 1863
15
Q
Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
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Harriet Tubman
16
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First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
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John Jay
17
Q
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
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Yorktown
18
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Date of the Battle at Fort Sumter:
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April 12, 1861
19
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Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
A
Paul Revere and William Dawes
20
Q
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
A
John Hancock
21
Q
Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
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Legislative, Executive, Judicial
22
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Date of the Gold Rush:
A
1849
23
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Inventor of the first steamboat:
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Robert Fulton
24
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French and Indian War dates:
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1754-1763
25
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
26
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
"the shot heard round the world"
27
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
28
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
29
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
30
Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
Fort Sumter
31
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
32
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
33
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
34
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years' War
35
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
36
Wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
37
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
38
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
39
War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
40
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
41
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
42
"Don't give up the ship!"
What was the occasion?
naval battle in War of 1812
43
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
44
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
45
Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
46
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
47
Union general who captured and burned Atlanta:
William T. Sherman
48
"Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
49
Date of The Mexican War:
1846-1848
50
Battle that changed the course of the Civil War:
Battle of Gettysburg
51
Place where Lee surrendered to Grant:
Appomattox Courthouse
52
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleaon:
Louisiana Purchase
53
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
54
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
55
Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
56
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress' attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
57
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
58
American general who defeated Santa Anna:
Zachary Taylor
59
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
60
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
61
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
62
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
63
French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
64
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Nathan Hale
65
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
66
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
67
Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
68
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon's Rebellion
69
Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:
the Gadsden Purchase
70
"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.
71
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
72
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
73
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
74
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
75
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry
76
"Don't give up the ship!"
Who said it?
Captain James Lawrence
77
Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
78
"I have not yet begun to fight."
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
79
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
80
Commander-in-chief of the Union Army:
Ulysses S. Grant
81
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
82
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
83
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
84
"Be sure you are right, then go ahead."
Davy Crockett
85
Financed Columbus's first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
86
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
87
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
88
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
89
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
90
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays' Rebellion
91
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
92
Union ironclad that defeated the confederate ironclad:
Monitor
93
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
94
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
95
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
96
Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
the Gold Rush
97
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
George Washington
98
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
99
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
100
Date of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
101
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
102
Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
103
General of the Mexican army:
Santa Anna
104
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
105
Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
Confederacy
106
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
107
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
108
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
109
"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
Who said it?
Abraham Lincoln
110
First Continental Congress:
September 1774
111
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
112
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
113
Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
114
Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis
115
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
116
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
Daniel Webster
117
Law-making branch:
Legislative
118
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
119
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
120
United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
121
"I have not yet begun to fight."
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
122
Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the union fleet:
Merrimac
123
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
124
Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the U.S.:
Daniel Webster
125
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
126
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
127
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
128
American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
129
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
130
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
131
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
132
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
133
Date of surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
134
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
135
System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
the Underground Railroad
136
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
137
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
138
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
139
First state to secede from the Union:
South Carolina
140
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
Who said it?
General William Prescott
141
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
142
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
143
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
144
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
145
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment's notice:
minutemen
146
"To the victors belong the spoils."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
147
Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
January 1, 1863
148
"Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union."
John Quincy Adams
149
Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army:
Robert E. Lee
150
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
151
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
152
Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
153
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
154
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
155
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars' worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
156
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
157
Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
Battle of the Alamo
158
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
159
Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the Confederate States:
Emancipation Proclamation
160
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
