Week 22 Review Flashcards
“Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union.”
John Quincy Adams
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
Dred Scott
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
“If I can ever hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard!
Who said it?
Abraham Lincoln
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon’s Rebellion
Date of surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
States int he Confederacy:
- South Carolina
- Mississippi
- Floria
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Louisiana
- Texas
- Arkansas
- North Carlolina
- Virginia
- Tennessee
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
the Underground Railroad
“Be sure you are right, then go ahead.”
Davy Crockett
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years’ War
Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis
“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.
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
Union general who captured and burned Atlanta:
William T. Sherman
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army:
Robert E. Lee
Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
Confederacy
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.”
Daniel Webster
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
Name the thirteen original colonies:
- Virginia
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Maryland
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
- Georgia
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Who said it?
General William Prescott
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
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
“Don’t give up the ship!”
Who said it?
Captain James Lawrence
Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
“If I can ever hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
speaking about slavery
First president of the United States:
George Washington
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
Commander-in-chief of the Union Army:
Ulysses S. Grant
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:
minutemen
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
Five causes of the Revolutionary War:
- trade and navigation laws
- stamp act
- Townshend Acts
- Boston Massacre
- the Five Intolerable Acts
Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
January 1, 1863
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
“the shot heard round the world”
First state to secede from the Union:
South Carolina