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