Week 23 Review Flashcards
First Continental Congress:
September 1774
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
Treaty of Ghent
1814
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
Patrick Henry
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
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
Date of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon’s Rebellion
French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
“Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union.”
John Quincy Adams
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
What was the occasion?
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
Dred Scott
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
“Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner.”
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
Fort Sumter
Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
Date of surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress’ attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays’ Rebellion
Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
the Gold Rush
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years’ War
Date of The Mexican War:
1846-1848
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the Confederate States:
Emancipation Proclamation
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Who said it?
General William Prescott
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
Confederacy
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
“Be sure you are right, then go ahead.”
Davy Crockett
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
January 1, 1863
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
